"The science ministry says radiation levels in seawater off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture are the highest since it began monitoring them about 3 weeks ago." NHK news
Could there be another leak from the recent aftershocks?
TEPCO has stated that there has been no additional damage, sorry no link, it was just on Japanese TV. Still waiting to see if there is a tsunami though.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/06_19.html
well, it seems that many of you are well ahead of the news, again. If the situation wasn't so serious over here, I would applaud.
This was linked in the main thread but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered about the handling of the crisis
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/04_10.html
For those of us living in Japan, this thread is invaluable, thank you. There's so much hype on one side and so much down play by people in the nuclear industry (not all of them), that we really don't know what to think any more. Sorry Evo, but I think this needs a dedicated thread, considering...
I'm living NNW from the plant, but still in a safe area, way up North. It's not really a short-term concern for me. My worries are that most food processing occurs in the industrial heartland of Japan, near Tokyo. The nearby prefectures supply most of the domestically grown food for these...
I'm just living here, my Japanese is ok, but the technical vocabulary is a bit difficult to follow. Also to be honest, I'm getting better information from here. My wife is Japanese and I'm giving her updates based on what's on this forum, well ahead of the news. There's still a lot of smoke and...
Hi, long time listener, first time caller. I'm currently living in Japan, pretty far from danger but concerned about the water and food becoming contaminated. I don't want to sound political but, in today's press conference the TOEPC spokesman only mentioned iodine levels (good news because of...