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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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Twentieth Century Failed Technology---Atomic Nuclear Power Plants.

12.03.2011 02:19

No way is this clean technology, and the past practice proves it is catastrophic disaster, which cannot be fully controlled. It fails in numerous ways 1) waste cannot be contained and does inevitably contaminate the natural world of plants, animals, and people, air, land, and water, 2) is susceptible to atomic explosion and meltdown, when contradicted by natures storms, psunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes,and various other natural occurances in disasterous consequentces, 3) it is easily sabatoged in todays aggressive war happenings in numerous countries, the practice of sabatage is growing as the various sides contend to explode the other side, 4) is susceptable to being targetted by WMD such as those Imperial countries that posess missles, and are in the habit of destroying their opponents power sources, etc.
In no way has this failed technology shown itself as a safe, clean fuel at any time, whereas it has a proven record of pollution, destruction, and a zero record of containment of waste that pollutes for tens of thousands, if not millions of years.

The alternatives are to re-tool the industrial revolution to the renewables such as wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity, and is more power than can be used by society. This non-pollution solution has a proven non-pollution record over the years, and for the most part is supportive of all life rather than destroying the plants, animals, and peoples such as happened at Chyernoble in Modern Revisionist Social-Imperialist Russia, with one million killed and on-going. Now revisionist Canada, Iran, and China are playing rulette with the future of the planet when buying this proven polluting, inevitable disaster for the environment even though the new ecological green organic environmental movement has shown a path, that does not pollute in any such catastrophic ways.

We have lived with the natural alternatives for millions of years, whereas this pollution guaranteeing nuclear power plant technology has a proven failed twentieth century technology rating in the environment.

Franky


update: japan to be evacuated

12.03.2011 11:19

while the official evacuation zone is 20km, bbc reporters were turned away 60 km from the plant by military personnel telling them the area was unsafe.

the first reactor is beyond help and is being abandoned to meltdown. meanwhile there are reports of a second reactor explosion.

japanese activists recently told me about their campaigns to stop the nuclear industry in japan over concerns about earthquakes. they were targeted by police and government for their views.

doom monger


Japans energy crisis & civilisation collapse!

12.03.2011 14:14

More than half of japans electricity comes from nuclear power. Now several power stations have shut down, millions of people are suffering major long-term power cuts.

No water pumps, no supermarket check-outs, no cash machines, no petrol station pumps, no tv/internet, no office eqipment.

I predict; 3 days until mass riots break out in Tokyo!

It could all be very different had they used geothermal power instead of being totally dependent on nuclear.

Have you noticed how NHK WORLD have whitewashed the disaster, very limited images of the Tsunami smashing coastal cities, absolutly no images of the actual nuke explosion, they say everythings under control and even the army's doing a good job.

"50 dead" more like 50,000

 http://japan.indymedia.org/

r


BS check

14.03.2011 07:23

"Have you noticed how NHK WORLD have whitewashed the disaster"

Er how? Its all over the internet, thier helicopters filming massive swages of land being swept off the map?

"very limited images of the Tsunami smashing coastal cities"

Realy? see above, 10,000 possible dead and you want to see the corpses? sick

"absolutly no images of the actual nuke explosion"

because no reactor does do this, the other bits of it might, and oh whats this i see a clip on TV....

"they say everythings under control and even the army's doing a good job"

Probably are, best disaster reliefe units in the world, hard to find out for sure as we are all too busy wanking ourselves off at the thourght of riots and anarchy in someone elses country.

Try putting yourself to some use and go help the people over there find loved ones, re establish water and power, identify the dead.
No?
Then shut up,sit down and get out the way of folks who are usefull

anon


Bit of a shame, "Manferd" ...

14.03.2011 14:23

... can't even spell his own name correctly. Too busy masturbating at the thought of riots I expect.

Bogus poster watch


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