To Fukushimna
Iwaki City
Marvel of Nature and Radiation (Merveille de la nature et de rayonnement)
Today, a no-confidence motion against the Kan Cabinet was filed in the Lower House of the Japan's National Diet.
Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan faces a strong criticism from President of the LDP Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki who has challenged the prime minister. Mr. Tanigaki's motion will be put to a vote in the Lower House tomorrow.
Indeed, in Japan it is very simple to replace the prime minister. Filing a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet in the Lower House and have it passed with a majority of ballots. Then, the incumbent prime minister is forced to step down or allowed to dissolve the Lower House into a snap election, according to the Constitution.
SECTION I: Daily Newspaper Radiation Report
Japanese newspapers post a radiation measurement report everyday as below shown.
Like weather forecasts, they present a radiation dose report on various locations everyday. It is crazy, but it is reality.
However, people can confirm that their places are safe except some areas around Fukushima Daiichi. Tokyo and other big cities are all safe. Even Fukushima City shows just 1.36 micro sieverts per hour, which is 12 milli sieverts per year, though it is said that one of 180 10-years old children could suffer cancer in future if they receive 20 milli sieverts of radiation for a year. Tokyo radiation dose is 1/22 of Fukushima City's, which is almost the same as New York's.
SECTION II: Westerlies
It is said that the wind blowing high in the air called Westerlies starts to snake its way when the gap between the temperature in the polar zone and the equatorial area gets bigger.
As the occurrence of a lot of tornadoes in North America tells, the global warming trend in these years has heated the sea around the equatorial line to an alarming level. Temperature of the oceans and the sky in the the equatorial area must continue to be comparatively high for some time. But, as the occurrence of a lot of tornadoes in North America also tells, atmosphere over the polar zone is cool enough or maybe is getting cooler to match the heated air mass in the southern zones.
Accordingly, a clear state of meandering is observed with Westerlies. Specifically, the winter Westerlies are over Japan down in the southern sky, and the summer Westerlies are over Japan up in the northern sky.
If a mini ice age is starting on the globe, the temperature gap between the north and the south will get more intensified with the Westerlies showing more meandering. If so, not only Japan but also Western Europe and North America will be situated in the north of the Westerlies to get cooler air from the polar zone.
Conversely, the strong meandering of the Westerlies can be regarded as a sign of the coming of a mini ice age.
Yet, nuclear power plants are not welcomed. We have to find safer fuel for electricity generation.
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On March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake and a 15-meter high tsunami hit the Fukuhima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
On March 12, the No.1 reactor unit exploded in the afternoon, destroying the upper part of the housing building due to hydrogen gas emitted along with meltdown of nuclear fuel, while PM Mr. Kan visited the Fukushima plant in the morning.
On March 15, the No.2 reactor unit exploded in the morning, destroying part of the suppression pool probably due to hydrogen gas leaked to the pool under the pressure vessel along with meltdown of nuclear fuel, while PM Mr. Kan visited and stayed in the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Company to pressure TEPCO executives into following his instruction which was however vague and untechnical but mostly political. Experts says that the meltdown in the No.2 reactor unit occurred in the evening of March 14, though PM Mr. Kan did not take any measures to prevent the explosion if he had obtained information about the unit.
So, some people and politicians think that the series of explosions of the reactor units of Fukushima Daiichi is man-made or concretely triggered by the prime minister himself.
Reactor Unit....Meltdown Time after the M9.0 Earthquake
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No.1...16 hours
No.2...101 hours
No.3...60 hours
For detailed situation of each unit, refer to the following: http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_29.html
Anyway an investigation team from IAEA has completed their work in Tokyo and Fukushima Daiichi. They will issue a full report sooner or later as they go back to Europe.
(An old song of 1960's Japan...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kIgcsj5h_I)
Mat 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.