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Title: Kan Seeks Calm as Japan Tries to Contain Meltdown, Panic Buying
Source: Bloomberg
URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011- ... revent-a-nuclear-meltdown.html
Published: Mar 15, 2011
Author: Bloomberg
Post Date: 2011-03-15 09:36:16 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 2581
Comments: 7

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for calm as the government battled to cool three quake- damaged nuclear reactors with seawater and Tokyo shoppers stripped water, food and batteries from supermarket shelves.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano this afternoon said radiation readings outside reactors rocked by explosions were falling below levels that are harmful, while a fire at a separate unit appeared to have been put out. Earlier, Edano had said the steel unit containing the radioactive core of one reactor had been damaged and warned of dangerous contamination.

Stocks slumped after the news that a third explosion and fire struck Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima plant this morning, and supermarkets reported panic buying. Hundreds of thousands of people without power faced freezing temperatures after Japan’s strongest earthquake on record caused a 7-meter (23 foot) tsunami that engulfed the northeast coast.

“The water supply at reactor No. 1 and 3 are stable, and the radiation level at the front gate of the plant has dropped to a level that isn’t harmful to the human body,” Edano said at an afternoon briefing in Tokyo. At the same time, “the temperature is rising slightly” at the pond that stores spent nuclear fuel in the No. 4 reactor.

Water in the pond may be boiling, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official at Japan’s nuclear safety agency. The rods need to be kept covered with water or they can overheat and spill radioactive material into the air, according to the National Academy of Sciences.

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#1. To: go65 (#0)

He's 3 days too late.

Sorta like the USSA MSM.

And like a virgin, you only lose credibility once. 8D

When the bush empire moves to Paraguay. That'll be the sign.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-03-15   9:41:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: All (#1)

This is why I have been against nuclear power all my life. I don’t trust humans to do sane things for very long, we tend to be crazy. And anyone who claims we are vigilant should have their heads examined. Even with threats of angry gods, we still screw up the protocols for handling demonic forces! All myths agree on this!

Japan is having a psychological meltdown: Crisis escalates as third (4 now- 5 to go plus 'pools') reactor faces meltdown. We know this process isn’t over. Nothing was fixed nor saved.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-03-15   9:42:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2)

Radiation wafted from an earthquake-stricken nuclear power plant towards Tokyo on Tuesday, sparking panic in one of the world's biggest and most densely populated cities.

Women and children packed into the departure lounge at an airport, supermarkets ran low on rice and other supplies and frightened residents, tourists and expatriates either stayed indoors or simply left the city.

"I'm not too worried about another earthquake. It's radiation that scares me," said Masashi Yoshida, cradling his 5-month-old daughter Hana

The nail-biting eased in the afternoon after Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano appeared on national television saying radiation levels at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex had fallen dramatically since morning.

But confidence in the government is shaken and many decided not to take chances, especially after radiation levels in Saitama, near Tokyo, were 40 times normal -- not enough to cause human damage but enough to stoke fears in the ultra-modern and hyper-efficient metropolis of 12 million people.

Many hoarded food and other supplies and stayed indoors. Don Quixote, a multistorey, 24-hour general store in Tokyo's Roppongi district, was sold out of radios, flashlights, candles, fuel cans and sleeping bags on Tuesday.

At another market near Tokyo's Yotsuya station, an entire aisle was nearly empty on both sides, its instant noodles, bread and pastry gone since Friday's earthquake and tsunami killed at least 10,000 people nationwide and plunged Japan into a twin nuclear and humanitarian crisis.

At Haneda Airport, hundreds of young mothers lined up with children, boarding flights out of Tokyo.

"We are getting our of Tokyo and going to our home town because of the situation. For the time being we have bought a one way ticket and will wait and see what happens," said a Japanese woman with an eight-month-old baby and four-year-old son, who declined to be identified by name.

Tourists such as Christy Niver, of Egan, Minnesota, said they had enough. Her 10-year-old daughter, Lucy, was more emphatic. "I'm scared. I'm so scared I would rather be in the eye of a tornado," she said. "I want to leave."

Winds over the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex, about 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, blew slowly southwesterly towards Tokyo for much of the day before shifting westerly later, a weather official said.

Some scientists, however, urged Tokyo to stay calm.

"Radioactive material will reach Tokyo but it is not harmful to human bodies because it will be dissipated by the time it gets to Tokyo," said Koji Yamazaki, professor at Hokkaido University graduate school of environmental science.

"If the wind gets stronger, it means the material flies faster but it will be even more dispersed in the air."

University of Tokyo professor of bioengineering Hiroyuki Takahashi added: "If the nuclear fuel remains contained, there will be very little health risk."

LEAVING TOKYO

The Czech Symphony Orchestra left Tokyo by bus for Ishikawa prefecture on the west coast.

"Some of them wanted to go home after the earthquake but it's pretty much impossible to get tickets for a hundred people now," said Hitomi Sakuma, a friend of the orchestra who was seeing them off at a Tokyo hotel.

About 350 Japan-based expatriates at Infosys Technologies Ltd , India's second-largest software services exporter, are returning to India, its chief executive said.

"Some of them have returned, some are in the process of coming back," S. Gopalakrishnan told Reuters. "The revenue from Japan is very small and overall it will have a minimal impact on business." U.S. banking giant Citigroup said it was keeping workers in Tokyo informed but there were no evacuation orders, said a spokesman, adding the bank was closely following guidance by the U.S. Embassy, which has not urged nationals to leave.

Some international journalists covering the disaster from the worst-hit region around the northeastern city of Sendai, devastated by Friday's mammoth earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 10,000, were pulling out.

Note ZERO reporting from USSA MSM reporters sent there?

I bet Diane Sawyer's gone. She was in Tokyo yesterday.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-03-15   9:45:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: All (#3)

As long as All we're hearing is how safe US reactors are, you're being lied to.

Anything not nuclear from the USSA MSM now is a lie. Truth replaced by Silence. Evil.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-03-15   9:46:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: All (#4)

Graveyard/Death ground humor:

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by victor82 on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:30 #1054943

To paraphrase Molly Ivins, this financial house of cards comes down so much better when it is heard in the original German."

Tokyo evacuating. Keep thinking about what the USEMpire has put into Tokyo.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-03-15   9:51:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: mcgowanjm (#1)

He's 3 days too late.

Kan's an amateur, he hasn't played a single round of golf yet. Rahm Emanuel & Hussein Obama need to give him a lesson or two on how not to let a crisis go to waste.

Happy Quanzaa  posted on  2011-03-15   10:22:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Happy Quanzaa (#6)

by sushi on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 07:58 #1054843

Previous Quote: "to stoke fears in the ultra-modern and hyper-efficient metropolis of 12 million"

New News

According to the CIA World Fact book the metropolitan Tokyo population is over 36 million. This is greater than the entire population of Canada.

But really, they have all the time in the world, cause these nuclear reactions aren't going to do anything but spread.

Every nuke is a reaction looking to out live it's containment. Which every reaction will do. ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-03-15   10:45:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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