Japan nuclear alert and earthquake - live coverage | World news. Good morning, this is David Batty with live coverage of the aftermath of the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on Friday, causing a tsunami. A huge rescue mission is underway on Saturday amid growing fears of radiation leaks at nuclear power stations damaged by the disaster. Here's a round-up of events so far in Japan on Saturday. •There are growing fears about damage to two nuclear power stations following Friday's 8.9 magnitute earthquake.
There has been an explosion at a building at one of the plants, Fukushima No 1 in Futuba, 150 miles (240km) north of Tokyo. Japanese authorities have extended the evacuation area at the Fukushima No 2 plant to 10km, the same distance as for Fukushima No 1 plant. •The death toll from the disaster is expected to exceed 1,300, with most deaths due to drowning. •The tsunami swept about six miles (10km) inland in some areas. For more details of events in Japan overnight and this morning, please check our earlier live blog. He adds: Radioactive Gas Released From Nuclear Plant Damaged by Japan’s EarthQuake. Tokyo Electric Power Co. started releasing radioactive gas from one of the reactors at a nuclear plant north of Tokyo and is preparing to conduct a similar operation at a second station after yesterday’s quake. Tokyo Electric, Asia’s biggest power company, started venting gas from a containment section of the No. 1 reactor of its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo at about 9 a.m. local time, Akitsuka Kobayashi, a company spokesman, said by phone today.
Japan’s government ordered the utility to begin releasing gas to reduce a rise in pressure in the reactor containment housing. Radiation spread by the release won’t be at a level dangerous to health, said Ryohei Shiomi, a spokesman at the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. The company is preparing to release gas at the Dai-Ni nuclear plant nearby, a spokesman said. “You don’t want to have that containment pressurized. Pressure Builds. Japan quake could hit semiconductor production. The devastating earthquake that struck Japan yesterday could affect DRAM and NAND flash memory production, causing shortages and price hikes. Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips -- and 15% of its DRAM -- so the 8.9-magnitude earthquake could have asignificant impact on worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to research firms.
According to Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis, it would not take a large drop in wafer production to cause prices to increase dramatically. Even a two-week shutdown of fabrication plants would remove from production a sizable share of wafer production. As a result, the research firm is predicting major price swings and near-term shortages. Earthquakes of lesser magnitudes, such as a 5.9-magnitude one in 2008 and two quakes measuring 6.0 and 6.8 in 2007, raised similar concerns about the semiconductor industry, according to Objective Analysis. Radiation leaking from quake-hit nuclear plant. Échelle de Shindo.
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. L’échelle de Shindo (気象庁震度階級, Kishōchō shindo kaikyū?) Est l’échelle d’intensité sismique de l’Agence météorologique japonaise (AMJ). Elle est utilisée au Japon pour mesurer la force des tremblements de terre. Contrairement à l’échelle de Richter, qui mesure la magnitude totale du tremblement de terre et le représente donc avec une seule valeur, l’échelle de Shindo décrit le degré de tremblement d’un point à la surface de la Terre.
Ainsi, la mesure d’un séisme varie selon l’endroit, et pourrait être décrit comme « shindo 4 à Tokyo, shindo 3 à Yokohama, shindo 2 à Shizuoka ». L’AMJ possède un réseau de 180 sismographes et 600 appareils de mesure d’intensité sismique, et fournit un rapport en temps réel aux médias et sur Internet : (ja) www.tenki.jp. Explication de l’échelle de shindo[modifier | modifier le code] Voir aussi[modifier | modifier le code]
東北地方太平洋沖地震 @ ウィキ - EnglishPage. EnglishPage This page moved below The large earthquake triggered a tsunami warning for countries all around the Pacific ocean. About Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No1 Residents within 20km parameter of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No1 advised to evacuate immediately. Radio-active material might be accidentally released, please close all windows and switch off fans. When you are coming back to inside, please change all your cloth which was exposed to contaminated air. About Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No2 The government requested to residents within 10km parameter of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No2 also advised to evacuate immediately. (12/3/2011 17:45 by NHK) 022 265 2471 or 022 224 1919 They can provide English, Korean and Chinese language supports.
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USTREAM You're on! English © 2014 Ustream, Inc. Ese official says pumping system caused nuclear plant blast. A medical worker checks the radiation levels of a resident in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture. NEW: An official says there is a "possibility of a meltdown" at two nuclear reactorsNEW: Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says radiation levels aren't hazardousNEW: He says 9 people have tested positive for high radiation levels on skin and clothingOne expert calls the effort to cool reactors, using salt water, "act of desparation" Editor's Note: Read live blogging of the Japan tsunami and earthquake. Are you there? Send your video, pictures to iReport. Tokyo (CNN) -- While saying there are no indications yet of dangerously high radiation levels in the atmosphere, a Japanese government official said Sunday that there is a "possibility of a meltdown" at two of the country's nuclear reactors.
"We do believe that there is a possibility that meltdown has occurred. A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release. Response to Radioactivity Release from Fukushima Reactor. » Meltdown may be occurring at nuclear plant, Japanese official says. Japan earthquake: Meltdown may be occurring, Japanese nuclear official says - latimes.com. A meltdown may be occurring at one of the reactors at an earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant in northeast Japan, a government official told CNN Sunday morning Japan time. "There is a possibility, we see the possibility of a meltdown," said Toshihiro Bannai, director of the international affairs office of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety, in a telephone interview with CNN from the agency's Tokyo headquarters.
"At this point, we have still not confirmed that there is an actual meltdown, but there is a possibility. " Bannai said engineers have been unable to get close enough to the reactor's core to know what's going on, and that he based his conclusion on radioactive cesium and iodine measured in the air near the plant Saturday night. Photos: Scenes from the earthquake "What we have seen is only the slight indication from a monitoring post of cesium and iodine," he told CNN. "We have some confidence, to some extent, to make the situation to be stable status," Bannai said on CNN. Radiation 'high' at Japan nuclear plant (Update 1) | Natural Disasters. Media reports said earlier on Saturday the cooling system had failed at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. Pressure was eased and steam was released from the nuclear reactor to prevent any meltdown. The Fukushima prefectural government has expanded the evacuation area around Fukushima Number 1 Power Station from an earlier established 10-kilometer radius to a 20-kilometer radius.
The prefectural government is working to determine which towns and villages fall under the new evacuation order, NHK Television said. Naoto Sekimura, a professor at the University of Tokyo, told the Associated Press a major radioactive disaster was unlikely. "No Chernobyl is possible at a light water reactor. The Fukushima prefecture authorities urged the people in the area to close windows, turn off air conditioners and stay at home. Northern Japan was hit by a massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a ten-meter tsunami wave on Friday. Rescuers have recovered 400-500 bodies in the Miyagi prefecture. Japan's nuclear power operator has chequered past. Après le tsunami, l'accident nucléaire. Les autorités japonaises n'ont pas encore eu le temps faire le bilan complet des dégâts provoqués par le tremblement de terre, puis le terrible tsunami qui a suivi, et les voilà confrontées à un nouveau risque majeur : un accident grave dans une centrale nucléaire. Ce samedi midi, on avait peu d'informations précises sur cette explosion filmée (samedi après midi au Japon, samedi matin en France) par la NHK, dont les images ont aussitôt fait le tour du monde.
Ayant suivi les débuts du nucléaire civil en France à l'époque de la Cogema (devenue Areva), participé à des nombreux débats sur les risques écologiques et économiques de ce type d'énergie face à une industrie et à des experts trop sûrs d'eux, j'ai été à Three Mile Island (Pennsylvanie, USA) lors de l'accident de cette centrale le 28 mars 1979. Mais c'est bien sûr le souvenir de l'accident de Tchernobyl (26 avril 1986, Ukraine) qui inquiète aussi bien les écologistes que les spécialistes du nucléaire. » Radiation leaking from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear. L'accident nucléaire de Fukushima, en direct sur la NHK. Nuclear threat: Japan crisis deepens as blast rocks power station. Policemen wear gas masks and patrol near the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. AFP PHOTO /YOMIURI SHIMBUN Source: AFP THE operator of a quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant says the cooling system of another reactor is not working and there's a risk of an explosion.
"All the functions to keep cooling water levels in No 3 reactor have failed at the Fukushima No. 1 plant,'' a spokesman of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said on Sunday. ``As of 5.30am (07.30 AEDT), water injection stopped and inside pressure is rising slightly,'' he said, adding the operator filed an emergency report on the plant's condition with the government. The massive earthquake and tsunami on Friday left more than 1,000 dead and at least 10,000 unaccounted for. In its wake there was an explosion that blew off the roof and walls of the structure around the No 1 reactor at the Fukushima No 1 atomic plant, about 250km northeast of Tokyo. There are concerns for the safety of at least 160 Australians in the worst-hit areas of Japan. Explosion rocks quake-hit Japanese nuke plant - World news - Asia-Pacific. Japan quake: Nuclear meltdown feared at Fukushima reactor.
12 March 2011Last updated at 22:32 Damian Grammaticas reports on the destruction wrought by the tsunami in Sendai A powerful explosion has hit a nuclear power station in north-eastern Japan which was badly damaged in Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami. A building housing a reactor was destroyed, but authorities said the reactor itself was intact. The government sought to play down fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima 1 plant. But officials later announced the cooling system of a second reactor at the plant had failed. The news sparked fears of a the risk of a further explosion or leak of radioactive material. A huge rescue and relief operation is under way in the region after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which are thought to have killed more than 1,000 people. Tokyo Electric Power said four of its workers had been injured in Saturday's blast at Fukushima, 250km (155 miles) north of Tokyo, but that their injuries were not life-threatening.
Continue reading the main story. Explosion heard at Japan's Fukushima nuke plant-Jiji | Energy & Oil. Japan earthquake live blog: Death toll rises amid widespread destruction. An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan early Friday, triggering tsunamis that sent a wave filled with boats and houses toward land. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on how the quake hit Japan and generated a Pacific-wide tsunami. [10:30 p.m. ET, 12:30 p.m. Tokyo] The 15-member Chinese rescue team is bound for the quake-hit region in Japan. The team's main task was to search for survivors, Yin Guanghui, deputy director of the China Earthquake Administration, said. . [10:20 p.m. . [9:54 p.m. He also said that authorities are concerned over the possibility of another meltdown at a second reactor. "We do believe that there is a possibility that meltdown has occurred.
Edano's comments confirm an earlier report from an official with Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, who said, "we see the possibility of a meltdown. " A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release. . [9:35 p.m. . [9:10 p.m. Caesium detected - Japan battles to stave off possible nuclear meltdown - :: Future of Journalism - News3.0 :: Possible meltdown at Japan nuclear plant. Rachel Mealey and wires Updated Sat 12 Mar 2011, 7:13pm AEDT Officials in Japan are investigating whether a meltdown has occurred at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant after yesterday's powerful earthquake and tsunami. Earlier today pressure from inside the reactor was released, but there are now fears the nuclear fuel rods were briefly exposed to the air. The exposure happened after cooling water levels dropped through evaporation, and a fire engine is currently pumping water into the reactor, according to Jiji Press.
The water levels are recovering, Jiji reports, quoting operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO). "We believe the reactor is not melting down or cracking. We are trying to raise the water level," a TEPCO spokesman said. But public broadcaster NHK quotes the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency as saying that metal tubes called fuel cladding, which contain uranium fuel, may have melted.
Experts say if fuel rods have melted or are melting, it means the reactor is heating up. Japan earthquake | Page 3. So what do we know? Here's a run down of events so far: - The biggest earthquake to hit Japan in 140 years struck the northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-metre tsunami that swept away everything in its path, including houses, cars and farm buildings on fire. - The earthquake struck at 1446 local time (0546 GMT). - 22 people are confirmed dead, with many more missing.
Some news agencies are reporting a higher number of fatalities. - The Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia all issued tsunami alerts, reviving memories of the giant tsunami which struck Asia in 2004. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued alerts for countries to the west and across the Pacific as far away as Colombia and Peru. - There were several strong aftershocks. . - Stunning TV footage showed the tsunami carrying the debris and fires across a large swathe of coastal farmland near the city of Sendai, which has a population of one million.
. - UK airlines have cancelled flights to Tokyo. International : Inquiétude autour de deux centrales nucléaires nippones. Japan battles to stave off possible nuclear meltdown | World news. Red Alert: Japan Warns of Possible Nuclear Meltdown.