8.9 earthquake in Japan: tsunami warnings

[Borg]

Japan raises the Fukushima crisis to level 7

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-japan-idUSTRE72A0SS20110412?pageNumber=1

They say that nothing happened recently, but their initial prediction of the crisis level was not correct.

I find this rather strange. If the radiation levels were that high from the beginning, wouldn't China or other neighboring countries detect them ? It seems to me that the Japanese are exaggerating a bit.

The prevailing winds are blowing most of the radiation out to sea. I doubt that China can even detect as much as is being seen in the US (which isn't much).

[URL]http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-191816-galleryV9-nhjp.gif[/URL]

 

[HossamCFD]

Thanks for the very descriptive animation !

 

[Borg]

Thanks for the very descriptive animation !

You're welcome. Note that the animation is only for the first week or so but, the general direction will still tend to be out to sea.

 

[mayeeta]

Abandoned Cattle Near Fukushima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://youtu.be/eVAorP4J5L4
http://youtu.be/eVAorP4J5L4

Heartbreaking.

 

[robinson]

Not sure which thread this would go in. Politics certainly seems the right place.

British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-plan-play-down-fukushima

 

[Astronuc]

Looking back - 8 months later.

Reflections on Operation Tomodachi (Friendship)
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/around-...apocalypse-japan-8-month-later-020117526.html

 

[rootX]

http://www.npu.go.jp/en/policy/policy06/pdf/20121004/121004_en2.pdf

Verified results of national discussions so far held throughout Japan clearly
indicate that, after the experiences of an accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station and in the ensuing sufferings of many local areas and citizens
including those in Fukushima Prefecture, many people are hoping to “build a
society not dependent on nuclear power”. So do those discussions, on the other
hand, also reveal divergences in their views on how early it could realize and even
whether it could possibly be built.

Phasing out nuclear by 2040