Man arrested after breaking into Fukushima Daini plant premises More questions than answers. From Kyodo News via Fark. Excerpts:
An unemployed man from Tokyo was arrested Friday after allegedly intruding by car into the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant premises, near the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi plant in Fukushima Prefecture, police said.
Hikaru Watanabe, 25, from Shinjuku Ward, allegedly broke through the western gate of the Daini plant around 1:10 p.m. Thursday, before driving inside its premises for about 10 minutes, the plants' operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.
Watanabe was arrested on suspicion of unlawful entry and property destruction, the local police said, adding that he admitted to the allegations. The purpose of the intrusion remains unknown.
Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream Analyses (Animation)
Updates on Fukushima -- Fairewinds Associates, Inc -- March 31, 2011 Video found on Godlike Productions.
Going To Work Today In The Forbidden Zone? From Rense. Excerpts:
The thousands of employees of Reactor Park No 2 are not exempt from getting Zapped by the outgoing 70 Billion Lethal Doses of deadly Radiation in the air just because they work for the electric company, Tepco.
If you were working there what would you do faced with that question? "Would you go to work today?"
Tokyo region to face rolling blackouts through summer From CNN via Rense. Excerpts:
The loss of two nuclear power plants means the Tokyo region will face the summer peak demand with a loss of about 20% of capacity, the plant's owner said Thursday.
File this under: This was fucking smart, now wasn't it?
Other utilities can supply only a limited amount of additional electricity to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. grid because (Wait for it..)Tokyo Electric runs power at a different frequency from the rest of the country, according to industry officials.
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Tokyo Electric, Japan's largest power utility, uses 50-cycle power, while most of the rest of the country uses 60-cycle electricity. Because of a lack of machinery, only a limited amount of about 1 million kilowatts can be converted and shared, according to industry officials.
And:
Building conversion facilities to share power from other grids would be almost as expensive as building a new power plant, a Tokyo Electric official said Thursday.
SNAPSHOT-Japan's nuclear crisis From Reuters/India. Excerpts:
- Japan will take control of Tokyo Electric Power Co , the operator of the plant, in the face of mounting public concerns over the crisis and a huge potential compensation bill, the Manichi newspaper reported on Friday. The government has said it has not decided how to support TEPCO.
- UN watchdog on Thursday suggested widening of the exclusion zone around Fukushima nuclear power station after radiation measured at a village 40 km from the facility exceeded a criterion for evacuation.
- Japanese manufacturing activity slumped to a two-year low in March and posted the sharpest monthly fall on record as the quake and tsunami hit supply chains and output.
Massive search for dead after Japan quake From SBS Australia/World News. Excerpts:
Thousands of Japanese and US troops launched an intensive air and sea operation on Friday to recover bodies of those killed in the huge earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan three weeks ago.
The grim search came as the government revealed that radiation from a nuclear power plant crippled by the twin disaster had been found in groundwater, with contamination already reported in the air, ocean and food.
In the search for bodies, Japanese and US armed forces deployed 120 aircraft and 65 ships for a three-day search along the northeast coast, where houses, ships, cars and trains still lay scattered across the muddy wastelands.
A total of 24,000 military personnel were to join the massive sweep, media said. "The focus will be along the coastline, river mouths and land areas still submerged in sea water," a Japanese ground forces official told AFP.
An unemployed man from Tokyo was arrested Friday after allegedly intruding by car into the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant premises, near the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi plant in Fukushima Prefecture, police said.
Hikaru Watanabe, 25, from Shinjuku Ward, allegedly broke through the western gate of the Daini plant around 1:10 p.m. Thursday, before driving inside its premises for about 10 minutes, the plants' operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.
Watanabe was arrested on suspicion of unlawful entry and property destruction, the local police said, adding that he admitted to the allegations. The purpose of the intrusion remains unknown.
Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream Analyses (Animation)
Updates on Fukushima -- Fairewinds Associates, Inc -- March 31, 2011 Video found on Godlike Productions.
Going To Work Today In The Forbidden Zone? From Rense. Excerpts:
The thousands of employees of Reactor Park No 2 are not exempt from getting Zapped by the outgoing 70 Billion Lethal Doses of deadly Radiation in the air just because they work for the electric company, Tepco.
If you were working there what would you do faced with that question? "Would you go to work today?"
Tokyo region to face rolling blackouts through summer From CNN via Rense. Excerpts:
The loss of two nuclear power plants means the Tokyo region will face the summer peak demand with a loss of about 20% of capacity, the plant's owner said Thursday.
File this under: This was fucking smart, now wasn't it?
Other utilities can supply only a limited amount of additional electricity to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. grid because (Wait for it..)Tokyo Electric runs power at a different frequency from the rest of the country, according to industry officials.
..
Tokyo Electric, Japan's largest power utility, uses 50-cycle power, while most of the rest of the country uses 60-cycle electricity. Because of a lack of machinery, only a limited amount of about 1 million kilowatts can be converted and shared, according to industry officials.
And:
Building conversion facilities to share power from other grids would be almost as expensive as building a new power plant, a Tokyo Electric official said Thursday.
SNAPSHOT-Japan's nuclear crisis From Reuters/India. Excerpts:
- Japan will take control of Tokyo Electric Power Co , the operator of the plant, in the face of mounting public concerns over the crisis and a huge potential compensation bill, the Manichi newspaper reported on Friday. The government has said it has not decided how to support TEPCO.
- UN watchdog on Thursday suggested widening of the exclusion zone around Fukushima nuclear power station after radiation measured at a village 40 km from the facility exceeded a criterion for evacuation.
- Japanese manufacturing activity slumped to a two-year low in March and posted the sharpest monthly fall on record as the quake and tsunami hit supply chains and output.
Massive search for dead after Japan quake From SBS Australia/World News. Excerpts:
Thousands of Japanese and US troops launched an intensive air and sea operation on Friday to recover bodies of those killed in the huge earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan three weeks ago.
The grim search came as the government revealed that radiation from a nuclear power plant crippled by the twin disaster had been found in groundwater, with contamination already reported in the air, ocean and food.
In the search for bodies, Japanese and US armed forces deployed 120 aircraft and 65 ships for a three-day search along the northeast coast, where houses, ships, cars and trains still lay scattered across the muddy wastelands.
A total of 24,000 military personnel were to join the massive sweep, media said. "The focus will be along the coastline, river mouths and land areas still submerged in sea water," a Japanese ground forces official told AFP.
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