Tokyo Haneda Airport on Tokyo Bay
Fukushima Radioactive Influence
It is estimated that the damage from the 3/11 Great Disaster could lower Japan's growth by 0.5 per cent.
Among 127 million population, evacuees are about 300,000 mostly in three prefectures of the Tohoku rehion: Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima.
However, the tragedy in the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant located 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo has a grave psychological influence on 30 million people living in the Kanto Plain around Tokyo Prefecture.
Yet, it is just 12 days after the tragic day of March 11, 2011.
(In addition, IRSN, a French agency, presented a radioactive diffusion simulation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHbQZQygrag&feature=share
It is truly alarming for Tokyo citizens; yet, reality can be a little different in terms of wind flowing and intensity of radioactive materials.)
PART 23-15:
Toyota is to continue the stop of plant operation till March 26; Honda till March 27.
PART 23-14:
163,000 Bq/Kg of radioactive Cesium 137 was found at a point 40 km north of Fukushima No.1 Plant; 1600 times larger than a normal value.
However, radioactive cesium is believed to be less menacing than radioactive iodine.
PART 23-13:
The 3/11 Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and tsunami disaster of Japan is estimated to cost up to $309 billion.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/japan-quake-to-cost-up-to-309bn-govt/story-e6frg90f-1226026913493
PART 23-12:
Fukushima 50 video, showing Tokyo Fire Department crews being engaged in discharging water in the Fukushima Plant. They laied hoses from the sea to nuclear reactor unit buildings on May 18 and 19.
http://video.jp.msn.com/watch/video/%E5%8E%9F%E7%99%BA%E3%81%A7%E3%81%AE%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95%E6%98%A0%E5%83%8F%E3%82%92%E5%88%9D%E5%85%AC%E9%96%8B-%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E6%B6%88%E9%98%B2%E5%BA%81/afl5f3cc
PART 23-11:
Around 5 p.m. of today, the 3rd reactor unit of the Fukuhsima Daiichi Plant discharged dark smoke, while some staff were working in its Central Control Room being powered up through the power grid.
PART 23-10:
The Kanamchi filtration plant gathered rainwater yesterday as it rained well around Tokyo; So contamination was concentrated, into water supply.
However, the radioactive level is not so alarming to Tokyo citizens except infants.
PART 23-9:
Only having 3 tons of milk and eating 84 kilograms of spinach at one time will result in a trouble, if they are from Fukushima Prefecture.
PART 23-8:
There is no Japanese law that specifis the duration limit of service for a nuclear power plant; it is 40 years (+ 20 years extensible) in the US.
PART 23-7:
Tokyo tap water is found to include radioactive materials at a level harmful to infants.
WHO sets the drinking contamination level at 10 becquerel/kg; Japan sets it at 300 Bq/kg for grownups and 100 Bq/kg for infants.
PART 23-6:
Japanese banks have decided to provide 1 trillion yen to Tokyo Electric Power Corporation as support for recovery from the disaster.
"1 trillion yen" is almost $12.5 billion now.
PART 23-5:
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors were designed by U.S. GE in 1960's. No anti-earthquake functions were incorporated into original design; the Japanese electric company did not correct it much.
At best it was designed to withstand a 4.5-meter high tsunami, though the Fukushima No.1 Plant was attacked by 14 meter-high tsunami.
As it was supposed to be used for 10 years or so, the precaution against a disaster of a scale observed once a thousand years was not applied.
PART 23-4:
Some tremor occurred several times in Fukushima Prefecture early this morning of Wednesday.
PART 23-3:
In a village partly within a 30km range from the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant, 3000 villagers remain but other 3000 have left; 350 Army troops are now stationed.
PART 23-2:
In Miyagi Prefecture, the number of property crimes in the wake of the disaster is about 80; Sendai City, the capital of the prefecture, alone has one million population.
PART 23-1:
The number of locations on roads broken or damaged is 1700 in the disaster-affected area of northeast Japan.
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Geo-thermal generation is one of the most promising alternatives to the nuclear power generation.
Country...Geo-thermal generation (MW)...Ratio in total electricity
1. USA...2,534.1...0.2%
2. Philippines...1,930.8...14.4%
3. Mexico...953.0...2.2%
4. Indonesia...797.0...3.2%
5. Italy...790.5...1.0%
6. JAPAN...535.0...0.2%
(As of 2007)
However, Japan has the world third largest potential for geo-thermal generation.
Country....Potential Geo-thermal power
1. Indonesia...27,790 MW
2. USA...23,000 MW
3. JAPAN...22,070 MW
Probably, we have to stop construct more nuclear power plants but install geo-thermal electricity generation facilities.
Then, it will cover as much as 30% of total needs for electricity in Japan.
Mar 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Mar 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mar 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.