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Earthquake and Tsunami Update

Manferd Wagner | 12.03.2011 00:12 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | Cambridge

Vienna, 11 March 2011 (1245 CET) | The IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre has received information from Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) that a heightened state of alert has been declared at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. NISA says the plant has been shut down and no release of radiation has been detected.
Japanese authorities have also reported a fire at the Onagawa nuclear power plant, which has been extinguished. They say Onagawa, Fukushima-Daini and Tokai nuclear power plants were also shut down automatically, and no radiation release has been detected. ....  http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2011/tsunamiupdate.html

Atomanlage Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Atomanlage Kashiwazaki-Kariwa


Atomanlage Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, JAPAN ........ Japan Earthquake Update (2210 CET) 11 March 2011 Announcements, Featured:
Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) that officials are working to restore power to the cooling systems of the Unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Mobile electricity supplies have arrived at the site.
Japanese officials have also reported that pressure is increasing inside the Unit 1 reactor’s containment, and the officials have decided to vent the containment to lower the pressure. The controlled release will be filtered to retain radiation within the containment.
Three reactors at the plant were operating at the time of the earthquake, and the water level in each of the reactor vessels remains above the fuel elements, according to Japanese authorities.
The IAEA’s IEC continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities, and is in full response mode to monitor the situation closely round the clock. ....... more ? ........
 http://www.iaea.org/press/

Manferd Wagner


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