The Entitlement Generation
From the monthly archives: March 2011
Here are some of today’s headlines and latest developments related to the crisis in Japan, where a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami on March 11 killed thousands of people, caused widespread destruction along the country’s northeast coast and crippled a nuclear power plant in Fukushima:
— “No major progress is reported [...]
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency says the situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant remains serious.
Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General, said, “The difficult situation has not been overcome and takes some time to stabilize the reactors. Radioactivities in the environment, food stuff and water is a matter [...]
6.1 magnitude quake was detected
Date-Time Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:54:33 UTC
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 07:54:33 PM at epicenter
Location 37.417°N, 142.269°E
Depth 13.8 km (8.6 miles)
Region OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances 127 km (78 miles) ENE of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan
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The media can be your friend but sometimes they are just the messenger of the moment. Today they are telling you, “the levels of radiation are ‘safe’ and you should not be concerned”. This is hardly the case, for the same reason you would not want to go get an x-ray everyday, [...]
(AFP) WASHINGTON — Traces of radioactivity from damaged nuclear power facilities in Japan have been detected in rainwater in the northeast United States, but pose no health risks, officials said.
The Environmental Protection Agency, in an update Sunday, said it had received reports of “elevated levels of radiation in recent precipitation events” [...]
SunPower, a solar panel manufacturer, and Xcel Energy, a utility provider, have announced the completion of one solar facility and the construction of another in Colorado’s Alamosa County. The Greater Sandhill solar power plant, a 19 megawatt photovoltaic system, was completed and commissioned this March.
Greater Sandhill is now generating enough power [...]
FUKUSHIMA – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake rocked the east of Japan at 7.23am local time (6.23am Singapore time), the latest in a series of aftershocks, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert that was later lifted.
The United States Geological Survey said the quake was 5.9km deep, and struck off the coast of [...]
TOKYO — In planning their defense against a killer tsunami, the people running Japan’s now-hobbled nuclear power plant dismissed important scientific evidence and all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history, an Associated Press investigation shows.
The misplaced confidence displayed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. was prompted by a series of overly [...]
Wall Street Journal – By PETER LANDERS And NORIHIKO SHIROUZU- TOKYO An email from a Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee working at one of the Fukushima nuclear power plants gives a rare look at how employees are grappling with personal loss even while working around the clock [...]
(Peter Alford and Rick Wallace, Tokyo) – HIGHLY irradiated water that injured two emergency service workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant probably leaked from the No 3 reactor core, Japan’s nuclear safety regulator says. It was likely the No 3 reactor’s containment vessel had been breached and the water into which [...]
