[NEWS] Japan Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear Crisis 2011

[Izzy]

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TEPCO, the operator of the stricken nuclear plant, tweeted just now

Is this really a professional thing to do?

[jimerax]

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yeah almost the same earthquake center with Mar 11's one.

[Jousway]

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http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84721.html

Japan may raise nuke accident severity level to highest 7 from 5
TOKYO, April 12, Kyodo

The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan released a preliminary calculation Monday saying that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been releasing up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour at some point after a massive quake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan on March 11.

The disclosure prompted the government to consider raising the accident's severity level to 7, the worst on an international scale, from the current 5, government sources said. The level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale has only been applied to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

The current provisional evaluation of 5 is at the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979.

According to an evaluation by the INES, level 7 accidents correspond with a release into the external environment radioactive materials equal to more than tens of thousands terabecquerels of radioactive iodine 131. One terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.

Haruki Madarame, chairman of the commission, which is a government panel, said it has estimated that the release of 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour continued for several hours.

The commission says the release has since come down to under 1 terabecquerel per hour and said that it is still examining the total amount of radioactive materials released.

The commission also released a preliminary calculation for the cumulative amount of external exposure to radiation, saying it exceeded the yearly limit of 1 millisieverts in areas extending more than 60 kilometers to the northwest of the plant and about 40 km to the south-southwest of the plant.

It encompasses the cities of Fukushima, Date, Soma, Minamisoma, and Iwaki, which are all in Fukushima Prefecture, and some areas including the town of Hirono in the prefecture.

Within a 20-km exclusion zone set by the government, the amount varied from under 1 millisieverts to 100 millisieverts or more, and in the 20-30 km radius ring where residents are asked to stay indoors, it came to under 50 millisieverts.

The commission used the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information to calculate the spread of radiation.

==Kyodo

[AsphyxZero]

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http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/07...its-japan.html

read this as boing boing it's japan

[MrGiggles]

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terabecquerels

probably the best unit of anything ever except for maybe gigabecquerel

[darkshark]

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http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flas...mid=tw-nytimes

[phe0nixblade]

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bump
heres a bunch of pictures of progress from the earthquake done in 6 months

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/09/japan-marks-6-months-since-ear.html

[Oni-Paranoia]

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It's good to see the progress made. Feels like this crisis was years ago.

[hi19hi19]

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It's good to see the progress made. Feels like this crisis was years ago.

This.

The images are very powerful when put next to each other like that. Also inspiring, somewhat...

[ichliebekase]

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6 months, you never would have thought that so much progress could be make. It's remarkable. Definitely thanks for bumping and sharing :]

[DotKritic]

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Amazing [four or so pics down] that the boat could be lifted onto that tall of building.

Just astonishing what a tsunami can do.

[Gundam-Dude]

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these photos are remarkable. never would've imagined so much restoration to occur in just 6 months. I initially thought it'd take at least double that amount of time

[~kitty~]

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Those pictures are pretty amazing. In South Carolina, there's this road they're trying to make from 2 lanes into 4 lanes, and it's already been over a year and it isn't finished yet. 6 months for Japan, and they've done so much more.

[LongGone]

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The airport reopened after 6 months what

[Crashfan3]

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I can't get the page to load for some reason.

Also it probably doesn't feel like years ago if you're in Japan right now. :/