More evidence that the newest large Japan earthquake was HAARP induced...
Light reported on the news...
The blue light was described as blinding.
The electricity is off again in Sendai. The electricity is also off at the Fukushima nuclear plants again.
The earthquake halts operations of some thermal power plants in Aomori, Akita according to Kyodo News.
They are asking for an explanation for the blue light, however, it is doubtful that they will be receiving the actual explanation, or even an explanation at all.
Showing posts with label Sendai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sendai. Show all posts
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Mormon Network Of Aid In Japan
In Japan, the Mormon network gathers the flock
The only thing that rivals the Mormon church’s ability to spread the word is its ability to cope with emergencies.
Within 36 hours of the earthquake striking off the coast of Sendai on March 11, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that all 638 of its missionaries in the country -- 342 Americans, 216 Japanese and 80 from other nations – were safe.
Within a few days, the church also had accounted for all but about 1,000 of its 125,000 members in Japan....“This is how it works everywhere.”
...Worldwide, some 14 million members of the church are divided into thousands of units, most of them made up of 300 to 400 people. A bishop presides over each member unit, which keeps detailed records—address, phone, work address and other information on each member.
“When you break it down to that small a group, it’s not as if anyone has to contact thousands of people,” said Richard Hinckley, executive director of the church’s missionary operations. “With four or five calls from a bishop — using phone trees — we can locate any one of 14 million church members in the world in a matter of minutes.”
In emergencies, if communication systems are out of order -- as they were in large swathes of Japan after the quake and tsunami — an intricate church network kicks in....That means when a disaster hits, church members know exactly where to look for the folks that are normally part of their rounds.
The missionaries — young men and women who work in pairs – all have cell phones, but with cell networks down in most cases, they instead followed disaster plans that directed them to predetermined locations. Most of the young evangelists were accounted for within 18 hours. The last four, who had to walk out of one of the most devastated areas of Sendai to reach their assigned site, were contacted within 36 hours of the quake, church officials said.
As the threat of radiation emerged, the church network swung into motion again, quickly shifting 72 young evangelists out of harm’s way to missions in Hokkaido in the north and Nagoya in the south of Japan.
Now the church has shifted into the next phase: relief operations.“We’re very confident that we have moved everybody far, far away,” from the radiation leaking from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, said Steve Allen, a public affairs officer with the church. Not only did they do so for safety reasons, he said, but for practical reasons — to get them out of the way of relief efforts.
Under a separate organizational system, the Mormons have dispatched a team to Tokyo to determine how they can actually deliver aid — not only to followers but the devastated region at large.
They quickly inspected 50 LDS church buildings in the disaster-stricken coastal areas — all but the one in Sendai, because the earthquake damage made it impossible to reach — to determine whether they could be used for relief efforts....
The church has made substantial contributions to the Japanese Red Cross and is coordinating with other aid organizations to assess the need for food, housing and fuel in the disaster zone.
“We strive to help people whenever there is a disaster,” said Allen. “Our desire to help is not based on religious affiliation or any other affiliation.”
The elders say that none of the missionaries has asked to leave Japan, and if anything the evangelists—most between 19 and 21 – are itching to return to the areas where they have been working to help. But the relief effort doesn’t really require evangelists, whose job it to share the Gospel.
“We would love to have missionaries be involved in any way they can be helpful,” said Allen. “But they are not equipped to be particularly helpful. They are better deployed elsewhere until they can come back in and not be a burden on the relief effort.”
To read the full story, please click here: http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/18/6292170-in-japan-the-mormon-network-gathers-the-flock
Friday, March 18, 2011
Radiation Monitors Have Been Deployed To Multiple Cities In The U.S. By The EPA.
Feds sending radiation monitors to Santa Barbara
Michelle Cole
SANTA BARBARA – 11:03 a.m. – Santa Barbara has been selected by the Environmental Protection Agency as one of the cities to locate deployable radiation monitors.
“The is in direct response to the nuclear disaster in Japan,” Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District Director Terry Dressler told THESBNN Friday.
Japan has been in crisis mode since its 9.0 earthquake and tsunami March 11, 2011 events that damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima I plant.
Also as a result of the crisis there and the growing concern on the West Coast over potential radiation exposure, SBCAPCD added a link to its website Thursday calledRadiation and our Health.
(Air pollution monitoring station in Santa Barbara County /PHOTO-SBCAPCD)
The agency has been getting a lot of calls about health threats.
But measuring radiological pollution is not a part of its “charter or mandate,” Dressler said.
Santa Barbara relies on information from the radiation monitoring stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
(IMAGE/website)
Dressler said he was contacted by the EPA this week about its new program RadNet, which will deploy additional radiation
monitors filling in the gaps of cities that don’t have them.
The feds will decide where the monitor will be located in Santa Barbara.
“They want to put them where we already have air quality monitoring stations in Santa Barbara and Goleta,” Dressler went on to say, “and they could choose Vandenburg.”
The monitoring station in Santa Barbara is on Canon Perdido; the one is on Fairview in Goleta.
The EPA’s efforts to get the portable monitors out is on a fast track, with shipment expected within days, something Dressler says is a good thing.
read more: http://www.thesbnn.com/?p=22395
This next story is inconsistent with news that I have seen online and on TV reporting that people that have come to America from Japan have tested positive for radiation, as well as their luggage...
U.S. monitors flights from Japan for radiation
The Customs and Border Protection agency said authorities are monitoring inbound flights from Japan for radiation, but neither cargo nor passengers have tested positive for harmful levels. The agency is "is monitoring developments in Japan carefully and is specifically assessing the potential for radiological contamination."
WHO Warns Against Self-Medication as Antidote to Radiation
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Bottles of potassium iodide sit on the shelf of the Texas Star Pharmacy in Plano, Texas, March 15, 2011
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The World Health Organization (WHO) warns against the indiscriminate use of potassium iodide as a precaution against nuclear radiation. WHO is issuing this advisory following reports of people in Japan and elsewhere who are using the substance in response to radiation leaks from nuclear plants in northeastern Japan.
The World Health Organization calls self-medication a bad idea. It says potassium iodide pills are not antidotes for radiation. The United Nations agency says they do not protect against external radiation, or against any other radioactive substance.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl says potassium iodide should be taken only when there is a clear public health recommendation to do so.
"Indiscriminate use of the product can cause side effects such as inflammation of the salivary glands, nausea, rashes, intestinal upset and possible severe allergic reactions," said Hartl. "It can also interact with other medications, especially certain types of cardiovascular medications such as ACE inhibitors, receptor blockers and potassium-sparing diuretics."
On another issue, the World Health Organization says it is safe to eat food produced before the nuclear power plant leakage in northeastern Japan occurred. But it says food grown and harvested in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone after the emergency might be contaminated and should be avoided.
WHO says there is no reason to restrict travel to Japan, as there are no dangers of nuclear radiation except in the exclusion zone. The World Meteorological Organization agrees with this assessment.
The Head of WMO's Aeronautical Meteorological Division, Herbert Tuempel, says there is no reason to fear international air travel unless there is a change in the current radiological situation.
"There is a small exclusion zone of a 30-kilometer radius around the plant where there is no traffic allowed - neither marine nor air traffic is allowed into this 30-kilometer radius," noted Tuempel. "But apart from this very small area, there is no restriction to international air travel."
The World Health Organization calls self-medication a bad idea. It says potassium iodide pills are not antidotes for radiation. The United Nations agency says they do not protect against external radiation, or against any other radioactive substance.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl says potassium iodide should be taken only when there is a clear public health recommendation to do so.
"Indiscriminate use of the product can cause side effects such as inflammation of the salivary glands, nausea, rashes, intestinal upset and possible severe allergic reactions," said Hartl. "It can also interact with other medications, especially certain types of cardiovascular medications such as ACE inhibitors, receptor blockers and potassium-sparing diuretics."
On another issue, the World Health Organization says it is safe to eat food produced before the nuclear power plant leakage in northeastern Japan occurred. But it says food grown and harvested in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone after the emergency might be contaminated and should be avoided.
WHO says there is no reason to restrict travel to Japan, as there are no dangers of nuclear radiation except in the exclusion zone. The World Meteorological Organization agrees with this assessment.
The Head of WMO's Aeronautical Meteorological Division, Herbert Tuempel, says there is no reason to fear international air travel unless there is a change in the current radiological situation.
"There is a small exclusion zone of a 30-kilometer radius around the plant where there is no traffic allowed - neither marine nor air traffic is allowed into this 30-kilometer radius," noted Tuempel. "But apart from this very small area, there is no restriction to international air travel."
read more here: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/health/WHO-Warns-Against-Self-Medication-as-Antidote-to-Radiation-118257239.html
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Fukushima: Spent Fuel Rods Exposed Equaling Extremely High Radiation
Official: Spent fuel rods exposed, 'extremely high' radiation resulted
March 16, 2011 8:32 p.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: IAEA says temperatures in spent fuel pools are rising
- NEW: "No data" for Unit 4, IAEA says
- "Extremely high" levels of radiation, says NRC chief
- Situation is "very, very serious," says nuclear expert
Tokyo (CNN) -- Spent fuel rods in Unit 4 of Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been exposed, resulting in the emission of "extremely high" levels of radiation, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday.
"What we believe at this time is that there has been a hydrogen explosion in this unit due to an uncovering of the fuel in the fuel pool," Gregory Jaczko told a House energy and commerce subcommittee hearing. "We believe that secondary containment has been destroyed and there is no water in the spent fuel pool, and we believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures."
The water served to both cool the uranium fuel and shield it. But once the uranium fuel was no longer covered by water, the zirconium cladding that encases the fuel rods heated, generating hydroge... "This is a situation where people may be called in to sacrifice their lives. ... It's very difficult for me to contemplate that but it's, it may have reached that point."
...A Japanese Self-Defense Force helicopter aborted its mission to drop water over the reactor because of the high radiation levels in the area...
The International Atomic Energy Agency said the temperature of water in spent fuel pools is typically kept below 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). That requires a constant cooling source, which requires a constant power source, something not available at the plant in the aftermath of Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
"The concern about the spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi is that sources of power to cool the pools may have been compromised," IAEA said ...
...Three reactors were being cooled with seawater and their primary containment vessels were described as "functional," he said.
But core cooling was "not stable" for unit No. 2, he said. Though the primary containment appeared to be functioning, "we believe that the spent fuel pool level is decreasing."
At unit No. 3, he said, the integrity of the spent fuel pool appeared to have been compromised and there may have been a reaction between the zirconium cladding and the water.
Jaczko's grim announcement confirmed fears that the nuclear crisis would worsen...
Tests on tap water in Fukushima city, 80 kilometers (50 miles) away, found radiation, though at levels not harmful to the human body...
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said Wednesday he will travel to Japan "as soon as possible, hopefully (Thursday)" to get the latest on the situation and to see how the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency can best help Japanese authorities, he said. He will stay one night, he added
...Military officials said they had deployed an atmospheric detection aircraft, the WC-135W Constant Phoenix, to assist in detecting radioactive materials in the atmosphere around Japan.
The aircraft can "detect radioactive 'clouds' in real time," according to the Air Force...
Officials told workers at the plant to evacuate Wednesday after the vapor rose above the plant and radiation levels spiked. Radiation levels later fell, and authorities allowed the workers to return, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said.
The number of nuclear workers remaining on site was slashed Tuesday from 800 to 50 but had grown to 180 by Wednesday afternoon, the power company said.
About 200,000 people living within a 20-kilometer radius of the plant have been evacuated; those living 20 to 30 kilometers from the site have been told to remain inside. Authorities also have banned flights over the area...
U.S. President Barack Obama was briefed Wednesday by the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the "deteriorating situation" of the damaged nuclear reactors, Carney said...
Between Units 3 and 4, Japanese authorities said they had measured radiation dose rates of up to 400 millisieverts per hour, IAEA reported Tuesday. That's equivalent to about 2,000 chest X-rays per hour, the agency said on its website. "This is a high dose-level value, but it is a local value at a single location and at a certain point in time," it added.
As a result of the monitoring of about 150 people from around the Daiichi site, 23 have been decontaminated, IAEA said..http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html.
This image made available from Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, shows the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan, on Tuesday March 15, 2011. White smoke billows from the No. 3 unit. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News)
Nuclear crisis a tangle of ominous, hopeful signs
Earlier, however, another utility spokesman said officials’ greatest concerns were the spent fuel pools, which lack the protective shells that reactors have.
“We haven’t been able to get any of the latest data at any spent fuel pools. We don’t have the latest water levels, temperatures, none of the latest information for any of the four reactors,” Masahisa Otsuki said.
If Jaczko is correct, it would mean there’s nothing to stop the used fuel rods from getting hotter and ultimately melting down. The outer shells of the rods could also ignite with enough force to propel the radioactive fuel inside over a wide area...
“My understanding is there is no water in the spent fuel pool,” Jaczko told reporters after the hearing. “I hope my information is wrong. It’s a terrible tragedy for Japan.”
He said the information was coming from NRC staff in Tokyo who are working with the utility in Japan. He said the staffers continue to believe the spent fuel pool is dry.
Other countries have complained that Japan has been too slow and vague in releasing details about its rapidly evolving crisis at complex of six reactors along Japan’s northeastern coast, which was ravaged by Friday’s magnitude-9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency, Yukiya Amano, said he would go to Japan to assess what he called a “very serious” situation and urged Tokyo to provide better information to his organization.
Several countries have advised their citizens to consider leaving Tokyo and earthquake-affected areas. The White House recommended Wednesday that U.S. citizens stay 50 miles (80 kilometers) away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, not the 20-mile (32-kilometer) radius recommended by the Japanese government.
Japanese officials raised hopes of easing the crisis, saying early Thursday that they may be close to bringing power back to the plant and restoring the reactors’ cooling systems. The earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and ruined backup generators.
read full story at http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/51443015-68/japan-nuclear-radiation-plant.html.csp
Analysis: Japan nuclear crisis reaches new levels
(Reuters) - Japan's nuclear crisis may have taken its most dangerous turn yet after a U.S. official said one of the pools containing highly radioactive spent fuel rods at the stricken plant had run dry.
One nuclear expert said that there was now even a possibility that the disaster may approach the extent of the Chernobyl accident, the worst ever in the industry's history. When the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine exploded in 1986 it spewed a radiation cloud over a large area of Europe.
And a nuclear engineer said that it may be time to consider ways to bury or cover the entire complex in some kind of material that would stop radiation from leaking into the atmosphere.
Triggering the new levels of alarm were comments by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko in Congress on Wednesday. "There is no water in the spent fuel pool and we believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures," he said.
read full story at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-japan-nuclear-pool-idUSTRE72F8VN20110316?WT.tsrc=Social%20Media&WT.z_smid=twtr-reuters_%20com&WT.z_smid_dest=Twitter
To read a confirmation at IAEA about
Japanese Earthquake Update (16 March 22:00 UTC)
Temperature of Spent Fuel Pools at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High’ and Urges Deeper Caution in Japan
DigitalGlobe, via Reuters
Workers are struggling at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, seen in a satellite photo at 9:35 a.m. Wednesday.
By DAVID E. SANGER, MATTHEW L. WALD and HIROKO TABUCHI
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a far bleaker appraisal on Wednesday of the threat posed by Japan’s nuclear crisis than the Japanese government has offered, saying that American officials believe the damage to at least one crippled reactor was much more serious than Tokyo has acknowledged, and advising Americans to stay much farther away from the plant than the perimeter established by Japanese authorities.
To read full story, click here http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/world/asia/17nuclear.html?_r=1&hp
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