Archive for March 14th, 2011

New reactor blast raises fears of meltdown Final death toll could reach ‘tens of thousands’ Markets crash over fears of economic fallout By Andrew Buncombe in Sendai IndependentUK Tuesday, 15 March 2011 Japan battled to save a nuclear power station from going into meltdown yesterday after a third explosion in three days erupted at... »

BBCUK 14 March 2011 Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant that has been rocked by a second blast in three days. Sea water is being pumped into reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant after its fuel rods were fully exposed twice. International nuclear watchdogs said... »

By Terje Langeland Bloomberg.com Japanese manufacturers including Sony Corp. (6758) and Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) closed plants today after the nation’s strongest earthquake damaged factories and crippled nuclear power plants, causing electricity shortages. Sony, Japan’s biggest exporter of consumer electronics, halted operations at 10 factories and two research centers because of power outages and... »

By DAVID E. SANGER and MATT WALD NYTimes.com WASHINGTON — As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants could go on... »

By John Mcdonnell DailyMailUK 14th March 2011 Hundreds flee as ash and rock shoots two miles into air Not yet known if eruption is result of Friday’s earthquake Explosion shattered windows four miles away A volcano has erupted in Japan, compounding the problems in the disaster-ravaged country. Following Friday’s megaquake and resulting tsunami which... »

by George Washington ZeroHedge.com 03/14/2011 If we could rely on the Japanese and American governments to inform us of any danger, we wouldn’t have to be so vigilant. But given the American government’s cover up of the severity of the BP oil disaster, the health risk to New Yorkers after 9/11, and numerous other... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/14/2011 For all who have been looking for realtime radiation data from Japan, you are in luck. Or maybe not, as the data unfortunately indicates nothing good. The System for Prediction of Environment Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI) releases gamma radiation data online. The site is jittery and apparently not suited... »

Joe Weisenthal and Gregory White BusinessInsider.com Mar. 14, 2011 THE LATEST: The nuclear crisis at Japan’s Fukushima power facilities continues, with 3 reactors fuel rods now melting down, according to Sky. TEPCO has admitted that rods are again exposed at reactor 2. GE and Toshiba are the companies responsible for the parts going into... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/14/2011 As the public is concerned about a possible deterioration at Dai’ichi Reactor 2, which according to TEPCO is now in a worse condition than either Reactor One or Three, Kyodo reports that radiation twice the maximum seen so far detected at nuke plant Monday. We are currently looking for... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/14/2011 It just got worse. From AP: Japanese officials say the nuclear fuel rods appear to be melting inside all three of the most troubled nuclear reactors. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Monday: “Although we cannot directly check it, it’s highly likely happening.” Some experts would consider that a... »