With trace amounts of radiation detected in Tokyo as of two days ago, last night, at 9:40pm PT, FRANCE urged its citizens to evacuate Tokyo due to concerns about radiation emanating from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located approximately 180 miles to the north.
“The French government has urged its nationals living in Tokyo to leave the country or head to southern Japan due to the risk of radiation…The French embassy in Tokyo said in a statement that its advisory applied with immediate effect to those French nationals who were not obliged to remain in the city,” says Reuters. France has begun to send jumbo jets to Tokyo to aid in the evacuation.
France is not the only only country to issue such an advisory. These are from Reuters’ latest collection of travel warnings, as of 12:42pm PT today…
AUSTRIA: “All Austrians, especially families with children in the greater Tokyo/Yokohama area, are advised to leave the country temporarily or leave the greater Tokyo/Yokohama area,” the Foreign Ministry website says.
BANGLADESH: …has instructed its mission in Tokyo to relocate its citizens to a safer place free from radiation, the government said on Tuesday.
BRITAIN: …advised its citizens on Wednesday to consider leaving Tokyo and the area north of the capital.
FINLAND: …said on Tuesday all travel to Japan, especially to Tokyo and northeastern Japan, should be avoided. It urged families with children to consider leaving the area.
GERMANY: “We call on all Germans to leave the region of Tokyo and Yokohama via Osaka,” German Foreign Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told a regular government briefing Wednesday. … Tuesday, Germany’s Lufthansa began diverting all Tokyo flights to other Japanese cities.
ITALY: The Italian Foreign Ministry has issued a notice advising Italians to leave Japan. Officials are meeting Alitalia to work out plans for extra flights if existing capacity is insufficient.
PORTUGAL: Portugal’s Foreign Ministry website said on Wednesday, “given the situation in Japan, all Portuguese citizens without essential reasons to remain in the country are advised to consider the possibility of leaving Japan temporarily or moving to the south of the country, especially families with children and pregnant women.”
SERBIA: …called on all nationals to leave Japan on regular flights.
SWITZERLAND: …has issued an advisory for Japan and recommends all Swiss nationals should temporarily leave the crisis areas in the northeast of Japan as well as the wider Tokyo/Yokohama area.
TAIWAN: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday that elderly, children and female Taiwanese expatriates should consider leaving Japan due to escalating radiation risks.
PHILIPPINES: The Philippine Embassy in Tokyo told its citizens…concerned about possible radiation exposure “may wish to voluntary relocate to areas further away or depart voluntarily from the country using their own means.”
Then, on the other hand, there’s the U.S.:
UNITED STATES: The United States on Wednesday recommended its citizens living within 80 km (50 miles) of the Fukushima nuclear power plant evacuate the area or take shelter indoors.
“If we assess that the radiation poses a threat to public health, we will share that information and provide relevant guidance immediately,” U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos said.
That advisory is up to date as of approximately 11:10am PT today, (3:00am Thursday local time).
Which country should we listen to?
every (radioactive) cloud has a silver lining:
Venezuela govt has 2nd thoughts on nuke power
http://poorrichards-blog.blogsp...a-to-halt.html
a tsunami in his hawaiian backyard:
http://www.wimp.com/tsunamibackyard/
made in japan?
‘Radioactivity forecast system down
A computer system that forecasts the spread of radioactivity has not been working due to malfunctioning monitoring posts around a troubled nuclear power plant in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says it does not know when the system will be back in operation.
The system, called SPEEDI, predicts how radioactive substances will spread in case of radiation leakage from nuclear power plants, based on measurements taken at various locations, prevailing winds and other weather conditions.
SPEEDI data are intended to be used to draw up evacuation plans for residents around power plants in case of accidents.
The system is monitored at government offices, including the industry ministry and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in Tokyo.’
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_16.html
Okay, okay don’t tell me. I know this one.
The rest of the world thinks one thing and we assure it of something else….
Don’t tell me…don’t tell me….
I KNOW!!!!
LESS REGULATION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
IF WE LET THE WORLD END, THE MARKET WILL DECIDE.
MORE SUBSIDIES TO THAT PLANT IN GEORGIA.
TSUNAMIS DON’T HIT GEORGIA. BESIDES, PEACHES REPELL THEM.
WE NEED A BALANCED APPROACH TO SOLVE OUR ENERGY NEEDS INCLUDING CLEAN COAL AND SAFE NUCLEAR.
WE NEED TO THINK 20 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
CUZ THIS PROVES THAT ALL THE NUCLEAR FAIL SAFE MECHANISMS ACTUALLY WORK!!!!
AND BESIDES ISN’T THAT CHARLIE SHEEN OVER THERE WITH LINDSAY LOHAN?
Did I get it?
Highly relevant video here for you, Brad:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenot...at-unit-4.html
Here’s how the US Government tricks the public into believing something is safe, when in fact, they know better:
“Studies performed by the Department of Energy indicate that is virtually impossible to ignite zirconium tubing.”
That sounds like good news, right? Actually, it’s irrelevant – as while technically, it doesn’t “burn” – in point of fact, what results is a “zirconium-steam reaction and liberation of hydrogen.”
But hey, at least it doesn’t BURN!
On March 12, at 13:30 hours JST, presence of low level Cesium -137 and Iodine-131 was also detected near unit-1 reactor indicating possible overheating of the fuel elements and Zircalloy Cladding.Zircalloy at high temperatures reacts with steam and produces hydrogen.
Zr +2H2 ¬ ZrH2 + H2
This hydrogen generated made its way along with the steam into the building surrounding the main containment and accumulated near its ceiling. The explosion in this building at around 15:30 hours JST was caused because of the hydrogen-oxygen mixture. As a mitigative measure to limit the damage, cooling of the core using sea water mixed with boron was initiated at 20:00 hours JST. The recent reports have indicated that a similar situation has emerged in Unit 3 and it is also being handled by sea water cooling.
Latest reports, indicate that Fukushima Dai-ichi Unit-3 also had similar explosion at 11.03 hrs JST on March 14, 2011 due to hydrogen accumulation in the reactor building. According to preliminary reports the containment vessel is intact and there is no significant release of radioactivity. Reports coming at 06:20 hrs of March 15, 2011 JST, an explosive sound was heard at the lower part of the primary containment of Fukushima unit-2 near the suppression pool. The radiation field at 08:31 hrs JST was measured to be 8217 microsievert / hour.
At about 9:36 hrs JST on March 15,2011 a fire broke out in reactor building of unit-4 of Fukushima plant. This unit was in shutdown state at the time of the earthquake/tsunami incident and does not contain fuel in the reactor core. The evacuation of people has been done up to 20 Kms. Radius and sheltering has been advised between 20 and 30 Kms. At about 12:30 hrs, March 15, 2011 the fire which broke out in unit-4 is reported to be extinguished and the radiation fields upto400 millisieverts /hour has been reported at the Fukushima site.
The reason for fire was same zirconium-steam reaction and liberation of hydrogen.
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/n...strophe-31.asp
Wouldn’t that be because Jeff Immelt is supposed to be advising this Administration on JOBS!?!?!? And some guy from JP Morgan Chase is his new chief of staff or something?
Greed in the nuclear industry and corporate influence over the U.N. watchdog for atomic energy may doom Japan to a spreading nuclear disaster, one of the men brought in to clean up Chernobyl said on Tuesday.
Slamming the Japanese response at Fukushima, Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev accused corporations and the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of willfully ignoring lessons from the world’s worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industry’s expansion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/...72E5MV20110315
http://dcbureau.org/20110315130...ber-three.html
Would not France know what they have done in suppling Japan with MOX fuel rods, as well as what is likely the fuel of the fire creating Japan’s atmospheric smoke?
I realize it’s hopeless to even try, but you might want to take your head out of your ass long enough to read a few factual stories:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/
http://hikosaemon.blogspot.com/
Dear Lord Balto,
As a former resident of Baltimore I’d like to ask–whose head and whose ass have caused you to give up hope?
We’ve got a pretty good variety of heads and asses around here. Your question seemed to be asked without specificity, as if you were speaking to a general population. If you’re seeing us all as one big collective head and ass, I’d be interested in hearing about that. Are you looking through a magic viewfinder from a Cheerios box, or do all Bradblogdinians look the same to you(Chinese), or what?
Or are you just getting in a good fly-by-shit-bomb-run?
Perhaps one can find meaning in these words of Michio Kaku,
“The situation in Japan, as of Tuesday morning, keeps getting worse.
We are getting close to the point of no return.”
http://bigthink.com/ideas/31617
http://google.com/news/search?q...Michio+Kaku%22
http://allthingsnuclear.org/pos...shima-reactors
http://yourindustrynews.com/slo...mox_59754.html
http://newser.com/story/114323/...chernobyl.html
http://www.bellona.org/articles.../new_explosion
http://google.com/news/search?q...#038;scoring=n
http://google.com/news/search?q=%22spent+fuel%22
http://google.com/news/search?q...#038;scoring=n
http://google.com/news/search?q=MOX
David Lasagna #4, that was brilliant!
Hey Lora,
Just caught your #13. Thanks!!