Japan - Evacuations Status due to Emergencies Declared at 2 Nuclear Power Plants - Evacuation of 210,000 - zone expanded to 20km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant

[jflorida]

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No matter what their press releases say things just are not looking good for reactor 1:

Japan Reactor May Have Started to Melt Down, Agency Says [ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...00ACFMOAA9.DTL ]

Fuel rods at the No. 1 reactor at the plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. may be melting after radioactive Cesium material left by atomic fission was detected near the site, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, spokesman Yuji Kakizaki said by phone today.

The government earlier today widened the evacuation zone around the reactor to 10 kilometers from 3 kilometers, affecting thousands of people.

[jflorida]

Re: Japan Declares Emergency at 2 Nuclear Power Plants Concerning 5 Reactors - Orders Evacuation zone expanded to 10km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Then there is this too:

Japan averts meltdown crisis at Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant [ http://www.thehindu.com/news/interna...?homepage=true ]

[makoto]

Re: Japan Declares Emergency at 2 Nuclear Power Plants Concerning 5 Reactors - Orders Evacuation zone expanded to 10km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant

[makoto]

Re: Japan Declares Emergency at 2 Nuclear Power Plants Concerning 5 Reactors - Orders Evacuation zone expanded to 10km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant

before and after

[jflorida]

Re: Japan Declares Emergency at 2 Nuclear Power Plants Concerning 5 Reactors - Orders Evacuation zone expanded to 10km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant


Workers Injured, Smoke Reported at Japanese Nuclear Plant [ http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=13120888 ]

Tokyo Electric said an explosion happened in the first reactor, according to local media reports.

As of 11:20 a.m. local time, a part of the "fuel assembly" of fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi plant's No. 1 reactor was exposed above water, with a maximum exposure of about 90 centimeters.

If the fuel rods remain exposed, they will be damaged, releasing radioactivity.

"NISA just confirmed that the fuel may be partially melting," Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice-chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission told ABC News. "The question is whether the situation is getting worse or not. It is reported that the level of water is declining (bad news) but pressure is also decreasing (good news).


Thats consistent with the reports of radiation released. It points to reactor one being in a possible meltdown and an explosion would explain a pressure release.

[jflorida]

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Watch at .47 - what is that? I thought I saw fire/light - not just steam.

[jflorida]

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2 killed in Japan nuclear plant blast[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...41072,00.html]

An explosion blew the roof off an unstable reactor north of Tokyo on Saturday, Japanese media said, killing two employees and raising fears of a disastrous meltdown at a nuclear plant damaged in the massive earthquake that hit Japan.

[jflorida]

Re: Japan Declares Emergency at 2 Nuclear Power Plants Concerning 5 Reactors - Orders Evacuation zone expanded to 10km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Japan extends evacuation radius around nuclear power plants [http://www.monstersandcritics.com/ne...r-power-plants ]

Tokyo - Japan's government late Saturday extended the evacuation radius around the quake-damaged Fukushima I and II power plants to 20 kilometres, a news report said.

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Japan Declares Emergency at 2 Nuclear Power Plants Concerning 5 Reactors - Orders Evacuation zone expanded to 10km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant

World Nuclear News issued a report about "Battle to stabilize earthquake reactors".

See: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS...s_1203111.html

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[makoto]

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[Laidback Al]

Re: Japan Declares Emergency at 2 Nuclear Power Plants Concerning 5 Reactors - Orders Evacuation zone expanded to 20km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Evacuation area expanded to 20km radius

The prefectural government of Fukushima has expanded the evacuation area around Fukushima Number 1 Power Station from an earlier established 10-kilometer radius to a 20-kilometer radius.

The decision was made at the instruction of the prime minister's office shortly before 6:30 PM, local time, at a nuclear disaster task force meeting on Saturday.

The prefectural government is working to determine which towns and villages fall under the new evacuation order.

It is maintaining an evacuation instruction for a 10-kilometer radius around the Number 2 Power Station.
Saturday, March 12, 2011 20:14 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_54.html

link to english language video stream report: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/...12_54_512k.asx

[sharon sanders]

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machine translation -

The number is really 210,000 not 21 million -

Around 21 million new primary evacuation May 13 at 9:30 in 3 twitter tweet (click on the site leaves the NHK)

Chief Cabinet Secretary 枝野 is a press conference held from 8 am to 13 o'clock, and 福島第二原子力発電所 living near the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture Fukushima Daiichi, a new shelter in the morning on July 13 along with 21 million people have started to clear.

On the evening of 12 countries, expanding the range to be directed evacuation of residents around the nuclear power plant, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a radius of 10 km to 20 km, the second nuclear power plant in Fukushima on 10 from 3 km radius changed to kilometers. Thus, with 180,000 living in the range of 20 kilometers from 10 kilometers from the primary Fukushima Daiichi newly subject to the evacuation instruction to the new 30,000 lives in the range of 10 kilometers from 3 km from the primary second Fukushima together these 21 million people, is that it started from early morning evacuation of the 13th.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110313/t10014637531000.html