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
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/
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Twentieth Century Failed Technology---Atomic Nuclear Power Plants.
12.03.2011 02:19
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
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
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
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
Bogus poster watch