Tokyo
(Click to enlarge.)Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant
The Magnitude 9.0 earthquake happened in the seabed of the North Pacific Ocean 150 kilometers off northeast Honshu Island, Japan, or 400 kilometers northeast of Tokyo on March 11, 2011.
Then 10 to 14 meter-high tsunami rushed to coastal areas stretching 600 kilometers from north to south or Aomori Prefecture to Chiba Prefecture, immediately north of Tokyo, over two to three hours after the earthquake.
It took almost 40,000 lives living on north Honsyu Island or the north of Tokyo.
It further destroyed four reactor units of Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, which situated 250 km northeast of Tokyo.
Yet, 18 days after the incident, the grave situation of the four reactor units is not yet to be improved or fixed.
However, life is going on in and around Tokyo as usual.
PART 29-4:
The Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant was started to be constructed in 1967 and completed in 1971, based on technology provided by U.S. GE.
Fukushima in 1967: (Click to enlarge.)
Fukushima in 1969: (Click to enlarge.)
Fukushima in 1971:
Fukushima in 1976: (Click to enlarge.)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/intro/outline/history-j.html
Fukushima in March 2011: (Click to enlarge.)
http://www.asahi.com/photonews/gallery/fukushimagenpatsu/20110315001_650px.html
PART 29-3:
If the worst thing happens one after another, it is time to change a way of living completely in any war-torn nation or around a nuclear power plant.
Plutonium Detected in Soil Around Fukushima Daiichi
Mar 28, 2011, 11:00 by David Hope
Plutonium, a highly toxic, heavy, radioactive metallic element, has been detected in soil at several locations at the earthquake-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the plant's operators said Monday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company said the plutonium detected in five locations is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was severely damaged by the March 11th 9-magnitude earthquake in northeastern Japan.
Levels of radiation exceeding 1,000 millisieverts per hour have also were been detected in water in a trench outside the No. 2 reactor's building, officials said Monday. The contaminated water, detected Sunday, is suspected to have come from the reactor's core, where fuel rods partially melted...
In South Korea, the Nuclear Safety Information Center said a small amount of radioactive xenon, believed to have come from the Fukushima plant, was detected by a monitoring station, Kyodo reported.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_7461.shtml
PART 29-2:
Once in a decade or two or three, automakers will surely have to face a crisis like everybody in the world.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tohoku disaster may bring automakers to their knees
By SHARON SILKE CARTY and ELAINE KURTENBACH
The Associated Press
Because parts and supplies are shipped by sea, the real drop-off has yet to be felt by factories in the U.S., Europe and Asia. That will come by the middle of April.
Much of Japan's auto industry — the second-largest supplier of cars in the world — remains idle. Few plants were seriously damaged by the quake, but with supplies of water and electricity fleeting, no one can say when factories will crank up. Some auto analysts said it could be as late as this summer.
Goldman Sachs estimates the shutdowns are costing the Japan automakers $200 million a day, which adds up to $2.8 billion for just the past two weeks. Each week of continued shutdowns costs $1.4 billion. By comparison, Toyota made $2.3 billion in all of 2010, and its sudden acceleration recalls cost $2 billion. The cost of damage from Japan's natural disaster could dwarf that recall, which was considered Toyota's biggest crisis ever.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20110329a1.html
PART 29-1:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/tohoku-kanto-earthquake-news.html
The unit of the numbers in the figure is micro-sievert per hour. But, a chest x-ray uses 0.2 milli-sievert radiation.
A chest X-ray is measured at about 0.2 mSv, and a brain scan at about 50 mSv, both thought to be negligible...
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Displayarticle09.asp?section=health&xfile=data/health/2011/March/health_March52.xml
But, a man is exposed to a chest x-ray only a second or less.
As a man in Tokyo receives 0.1 microsievert per hour, if he stays in the environment for 0.2 x 10^-3 divided by 0.1 x 10^-6, he receives an amount of radiation equal to one chest x-ray check. It is 2000 hours or 83 days.
So, if the present radioactive condition continues for 83 days in Tokyo and you stay in Tokyo for these 83 days, you receive the same amount of radiation as one chest x-ray.
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There are 47 prefectures in Japan including Tokyo Prefecture that has 13 million population.
The 3/11 Disaster hit hard the Pacific Coast areas mainly of three prefectures: Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima.
The number of those who lost lives or houses and assets seem to be 400,000.
Yet, Japan has the 125 million population, excluding 1.7 million foreigners in Japan, as of 2010.
Yet, the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant provided power for the Tokyo area. Accordingly scheduled outage has been applied to the Tokyo area, excluding the main districts of Tokyo. In this context, psychological pressure on people living around Tokyo is not small, since the Plant is situated at 250 kilometers or 150 miles northeast of Tokyo.
It will take further a few weeks to fix the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) problem.
Mar 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.