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The 27th Day after 3/11
Tonight it is the quarter moon like in the night of March 10, 2011.
There is a theory that the moon came closer to the earth in both the occasions of 2004 Indonesia Tsunami and 2011 Northeast-Japan Tsunami.
Or it is said the moon was the closest to the earth on these occasions in 100 years.
It is the shift of the center of combined gravity of the earth and the moon that can affect the state of continental plates. This center of the combined gravity is, as I once calculated, beneath the surface of the ground of the earth. A subtle change might cause a trigger to losing balance between continental plates above the center.
And, now, at 11:32 p.m. of tonight, a big aftershock occurred in eastern Japan at a location near the epicenter of the 3/11 Earthquake.
The moon is now almost at the same position in the orbit around the earth as on March 11, since the moon rotates around the earth taking 29.5 days.
This is a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake according to a Japanese authority. Japanese TV stations are now busy reporting the state of damage around Sendai City and nuclear power plants in the region.
The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, Miyagi, has lost two of three external power supply systems, but it works in safety with the one power line to cool reactors.
Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan has arrived at the PM office to examine the situation with other ministers in charge.
PART 4-7-15:
Japan will continue to invest into infrastructures in ASEAN. Deputy Finance Ministers' meeting was held in Bali, Indonesia, to confirm Japan's commitment.
PART 4-7-14:
The Bank of Japan reportedly purchased exhaustively corporation bonds of Tokyo Electric Power Company in market.
The total amount of money BOJ spent is said to be $1.2 billion.
PART 4-7-13:
There is a fact most of people in the world do not know:
Japan is the largest owner of net external assets or net overseas assets as of the end of 2009.
1....JAPAN...266.2 trillion yen ($3 trillion)
2....China...167.7 trillion yen ($1.9 trillion)
3....Germany...118.8 trillion yen ($1.3 trillion)
That is why the Japanese Government can issue bonds to finance recovery work, though it has the biggest ratio of country's debt over GDP among major nations.
PART 4-7-12:
There is a rumor a major newspaper even reported that a subcontractor of TEPCO is recruiting workers to be sent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, promising a big remuneration.
The wage promised is $5000 per day.
PART 4-7-11:
Inside the sea near the shore of the affected area of northeast Japan, visibility is still poor.
The seawater is still muddy after almost a month since the tragic incident, hiding about 15,000 dead bodies yet to be discovered.
PART 4-7-10:
Moskovskij Komsomolets of Russia reportedly launched a surprising idea to return South Kuril Islands to Japan as aid for the 3//11 Disaster of Japan.
The USSR invaded the South Kuril Islands or the Northern Territory of Japan after WWII.
PART 4-7-9:
The U.S. has sent 39 experts of nuclear power plants and 450 specialists in radioactive hazard to Japan.
The U.S. and France have strongly advised the Japanese Government to enhance the cooperative work with the each of two atomic giants.
But, the Kan cabinet does not look like fully understanding the need. The politicians of the ruling DPJ must at lease respect pride of the U.S. and France in this field.
PART 4-7-8:
The Tohoku shinkansen express train system was not put into a crisis by the 3/11 Earthquake.
All the trains running at 200 km/h to 300 km/h in the affected area responded to early warning from seismic instruments East Japan Railway Company sets along the railroads and the shore of northeast Honshu Island.
After slowing down on early warnings, the bullet trains all stopped in safety when they received a full-scale warning from the instruments.
http://railf.jp/news/2010/11/11/165500.html
However, on its 740-km line from Tokyo to Aomori, 1,100 locations and spots of facilities received damage from the M9.0 earthquake.
Full recovery of the shinkansen service in the Tohoku Line is expected to be completed by the end of April.
PART 4-7-7:
Stupid design and management of a nuclear power plant can be easily found and discussed, since this technology has half a century history.
On 4 April 2011, the 72 countries that are "Contracting Parties" to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS), which meet every three years to consider the CNS' implementation, gathered at the IAEA's headquarters in Vienna for their fifth Review Meeting.
The ten-day Conference, convening from 4 to 14 April 2011, discusses the country reports on nuclear safety that every Contracting Party is obliged to submit. All countries with operating nuclear power plants are among the CNS' Contracting Parties.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2011/safety_convention.html
The issue is to understand the difference between a plant in Japan and the one in Russia, America, and France.
The design and control of a plant in a place full of earthquakes and tsunamis are totally different from those of a plant in a place without a possibility of earthquakes and tsunamis.
Building a nuclear plant in the middle of the Sahara desert is very different from building one on the shore of Sumatra Island or in the capital of Haiti.
PART 4-7-6:
In Fukushima Prefecture, 4,280 people were still missing since the 3/11 Great Tsunami.
The southernmost prefecture among the three most severely damaged, Iwate, Miyagai, and Fukushima, is suffering the nuclear power plant problem and harmful rumors about their agricultural and fishery products.
The Government has, however, actually imposed a ban on delivery of some types of agricultural and fishery products from the prefecture as a higher-level of contamination was measured on them.
PART 4-7-5:
The American Forces have mobilized 19 ships and 18,000 soldiers to rescue work and humanitarian aid in Japan.
This the third largest expedition and engagement next to those to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Great work by American soldiers has been well reported in Japan as they even helped clean-up work of the gymnasium of a high school in the affected area.
http://banmakoto.air-nifty.com/blues/2011/04/post-ffb9.html
USS Essex has been also dispatched to the sea off northeast Honshu Island with helicopters of the Marines stationed in Okinawa. It is still a big operation to support recovery work in Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures.
PART 4-7-4:
In a port of the affected area, only a few ships were left intact among 200 fishing vessels.
In another port of the tsunami-hit area, only a few ships were left intact among 700 fishing boats on March 11.
Some captains of fishing vessels dared to sail out of the port when they heard a warning about the big tsunamis coming. Some succeeded in saving their ships through hard efforts to have their ships get out of the port and ride on waves.
PART 4-7-3:
Special unmanned helicopters will be delivered to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant for checking the inside of the reactor buildings by a US company and a French company. The three of them are expected to help recovery work in Fukushima.
PART 4-7-2:
According to Japan Coast Guard, the location on the seabed, 1700 meters deep, just above the epicenter has risen 3 meters and shifted east-south-east for 24 meters or 80 feet compared with the state before the 3/11 Earthquake.
This is the largest change of the ground after an earthquake, at least in Japan, that has been ever reported.
The locations is 120 km off Ojika Peninsula which also moved several meters.
PART 4-7-1:
The damage ratio of fuel in Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant:
#1 reactor fuel rods: 70%
#2 reactor fuel rods: 30%
#3 reactor fuel rods: 25%
#4 reactor fuel rods: 0%
#5, #6 ...: 0%
The most dangerous state is found in the first reactor pressure vessel. So, TEPCO is now charging the containment vessel with nitrogen gas so as to prevent another hydrogen explosion.
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Goods and products exported from Japan are checked by some foreign authorities, when they enter those nations, as to whether Japanese industrial products have been contaminated by radioactive material.
It is unthinkable that any goods from Japan is radioactively dangerous. The 30-km range from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has an area of 1400 square kilometers as half the area is on the sea. On the other hand, the land size of Japan is 378,000 square kilometers. The ratio of the possible contaminated area is 0.75%. Even in the Fukushima Prefecture the warning zone occupies just 20% of the prefecture area.
So, there is no possibility that radioactively contaminated products are exported from Japan to the world.
Yet, it is understood that the world market is on alert. It is reality that some radiation is being emitted from some nuclear reactors in the Fkushima Daiichi Plant 250 km northeast of Tokyo Area where 35 million people live.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/radiation-levels.html
The ordinary value of background radiation from the environment is 0.05 to 0.14 micro-sieverts per hour in Japan, of course, without a nuclear accident.
Mar 5:6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
Mar 5:7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Mar 5:8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.