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11/21/2016 / By fukushima

Fukushima earthquake strikes Japan… 7.3 mag… tsunami warning, evacuation order issued… citizens ordered to consider ‘worst case scenario’

BREAKING NEWS: A massive 7.3 magnitude earthquake has struck near Fukushima, Japan, and Japan has issued a tsunami warning. NHK World TV Live is issuing a warning that says “we expect a tsunami wave 3 meters high” … “the tsunami will come through the inland… we are expecting it to come.” Warnings are issued to […]

11/21/2016 / By fukushima

Tsunami warning issued after quake off Fukushima in Japan

TOKYO — An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck Tuesday off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan. A tsunami warning for waves of up to 10 feet was issued. Article by AP The Japan Meteorological Agency says the quake struck around 6 a.m at a depth of 6 miles. It warned people along the […]

11/21/2016 / By fukushima

Live Japan earthquake: 7.3 magnitude quake strikes off Fukushima – tsunami warning issued

Trains suspended Article by Barney Henderson Japan Railways has suspended operations of dozens of bullet trains operating in eastern Japan. The precaution has been taken so engineers can check tracks to make sure they have not been damaged by the earthquake, Julian Ryall reports. 10:01pm Boats trying to get out to sea to avoid imminent […]

11/17/2016 / By fukushima

German firm aims to compactly convert radioactive Fukushima wood into power

Japan is turning to a small German company to generate power from timber irradiated by the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear meltdowns. Article by Brian parkin Closely held Entrade Energiesysteme AG will sell electricity from 400 of its container-size biomass-to-power machines set up in Fukushima Prefecture, said Julien Uhlig, the Duesseldorf-based company’s chief executive officer. […]

11/16/2016 / By fukushima

Japan agrees second nuclear reactor life extension since Fukushima

Japan’s nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved an application by Kansai Electric Power Co Inc to extend the life of an ageing reactor beyond 40 years, the second such approval it has granted under new safety requirements imposed since the Fukushima disaster. Article by world.news The move means Kansai Electric, Japan’s most nuclear-reliant utility before Fukushima […]

11/15/2016 / By fukushima

A new luxury hotel — in Fukushima?

On March 11, 2011, the residents of Fukushima Prefecture felt the earth shake as a massive quake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. But few could have predicted the explosions that would later follow or that the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant would go in to meltdown. The region has […]

11/14/2016 / By fukushima

Crippled Fukushima reactor fully exposed for first time since meltdown

Fukushima’s Nuclear Plant reactor No. 1 has been fully exposed for the first time since the March 2011 tragedy, after the utility company safely removed the last cover sheet of the temporary protective construction. Article by rt.com Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) used an industrial crane to lift the last of its 18 protective panels […]

11/07/2016 / By fukushima

Fukushima Radiation in the Pacific (Revisited)

My recent post on the spread of radiation stemming from the Fukushima nuclear accident drew quite a few questioning comments. Specifically the article suggested that radiation from the accident was drifting across the Pacific at levels high enough to cause alarm. It turns out such cause for alarm was exaggerated, though there is still reason to […]

11/03/2016 / By fukushima

Fukushima poet: “Every time I felt the aftershocks, there was something that swayed and that something became words”

When a devastating earthquake rattled Japan in 2011, crippling a nuclear plant in Fukushima and triggering the country’s worst nuclear disaster, people left the prefecture in droves to escape radiation. Article by Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh But high school teacher and poet Ryoichi Wago stuck around as the streets emptied, living in an emergency shelter and […]

11/02/2016 / By fukushima

Fukushima frozen in time: How the uninhabitable exclusion zone remains untouched, five years after tsunami caused Japanese nuclear plant disaster

Five years after a tsunami shut down the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan, these haunting images show how the towns inside the exclusion zone have been frozen in time. Article by Chris Summers In March 2011 an earthquake measuring 8.9 triggered a tsunami off the coast of north-eastern Japan, leading to an explosion at the […]

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