This page is being updated with news and information as it comes in. Primary sources are Japanese news media on the ground, but we are also monitoring foreign organizations, Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere.
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No. of dead or missing tops 16,000 as infrastructure being restored
Vital infrastructure was gradually being restored Friday in areas hit a week earlier by the mega earthquake, while the fate of tens of thousands of people remained unknown.
Tokyo International School Emergency Supply Center
Tokyo International School & TEDxTokyo communities have partnered to receive needed supplies at Tokyo International School for immediate delivery to the disaster areas.
In Remembrance
Japan marks one week since the earthquake with a moment of silence.
Details Emerge On Workers Toiling Inside Nuclear Plant
As the battle to tame the nuclear crisis entered its seventh day, many Japanese turned their attention to the fate of the workers inside.
These anonymous workers, some employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. and other contract workers making 9,000 yen a day ($110), migrate from one nuclear facility to another—and now are exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation inside the stricken plant.
Acima Provides Hotline Over IM For Non-Japanese Disaster Victims
Japan based international-business consulting company Acima is offering emergency hotline over Skype and MSN Messenger for 24 hours in 15 languages, by using its own resource and forming volunteers from around the world.
Donations
Tokyo is accepting donations: diapers, heat pads, paper cups, saran wrap, water, some baby/sanitary/eye care products. Find out more on the Tokyo government site (Japanese only).
Economy update
The yen is getting battered in international markets, however the G7 have agreed to take co-ordinated action to stop this and stabilize the value of Japan’s currency.
Fukushima update
Power lines to the plant have been repaired and TEPCO is now in the process of bringing the reactors back online with these restored power lines. Once that is done, the status of the cooling pumps will need to be assessed and then the reactor control system should be able to come back online. This covers reactors 1-4. Reactors 5 and 6 are warming but were offline before the earthquake struck and are not being treated as the priority.
Donations and Support
Second Harvest Japan is seeking food and supply donations for the people in the earth-quake-affected areas. Please see below for the list of what we need now. Thank you very much for your generous support!
Black outs
Last night’s unscheduled black outs in Tokyo were adverted thanks to everybody doing their bit in saving energy. Be sure to keep contributing to the efforts and remember that there are people in tsunami hit regions with no electricity and no shelter.
Foreign Media coverage
The foreign media has contributed to the sense of panic amongst the community here. Although it is best to always take care, please also be sure of your sources. See these screen captures to compare how the BBC and the Huffington Post headlined yesterday’s aerial water dumping operation.
Leaving Japan
The first option for leaving Japan should remain commercial routes. Commercial flights continue to operate to and from Japan. Foreign nationals with commercial flight bookings should continue to use these flights and you should continue to make reservation and other arrangements with your airline as usual. However, specially chartered flights are now being made by a number of countries.
TEPCO to try and restore power
Yesterday saw 2 military operations to get more water on the failing reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Today, TEPCO will follow that up by trying to restore electricity to the cooling systems so that the overall temperature there can be brought down. TEPCO are hoping to get power to reactors 1 & 2 today and 3 & 4 by the 20th.
Comments
日本のこんにちは、人物、
私はあなたの痛みと苦しみに哀愁を感じる。私はあなたが完全に回復することは、あなたの指導者たちは、これらの非常に危険な原子力発電所を構築する上で、これらの過ちから学ぶことを願っています。ここで私は3マイル島、ハリスバーグ、ペンシルバニア州アメリカ合衆国月28-30、1979年にアメリカの原子力発電所事故の近くに住んでから学んだことをいくつかの情報は、
3マイル島、ハリスバーグ、ペンシルベニア州、日本にあるような、水冷却原子力発電所は、プライマリとセカンダリの水冷却ループを持っています。これらのループは、違反した場合は災害時の緊急冷却は、今、私たちを参照してください失敗したときに発生する可能性があります。 。
一次冷却にもプラントの排気システムとして機能します。
原子炉コアでは、密閉、加圧チャンバされているので、同様に冷却、放射性ガスが核反応時に作成されるので、爆発する恐れがあります排気する必要があります。この情報は、コーネル大学核物理学者とエンジニア月30,1979上で公開ラリーでイサカコモンズでは、ニューヨーク州イサカから
原子炉コアインチ圧力逃がし弁は、冷却塔を通じた環境への外へ排出する放射性粒子とプライマリループと放射線にガス24 / 7排気。この系統は、毎日放射線リリースでは、特定のウイルスや未知の起源と癌の他の疾患に対する感受性、その結果、人間の性不稔、おそらく免疫力が低下に寄与している。非機能ヒト免疫系の癌の結果を得るために放射線治療。患者は、犠牲者が、彼らは、以前は放射線のリリースから直接の危害に加えて、長期的な結果が宣伝さ国民に理解されていない免疫を開発していたすべての病気にかかりやすいです。 2分の1静物を介して放射線分解し、多くの！プルトニウムは、P – 239の1 / 2点のライフは24500年と低下し20 -40 2分の1静物を体験する必要があります。 24500年は、x 40サイクルに触れた場合は、あなたの人生を終わらせるでしょうセーフガードの材料に非常に長い時間です。プルトニウムは核のプロセスで作成された要素です。
私は9年前の3マイルは、後ハリスバーグ、ペンシルバニア州の70マイル以内であった。事故1979年3月28日に
また、私はHiホノルルのウェイヤーハエウサー合板公式で言われている。そのハワイの植物は可能ではないがウェイヤーハエウサーは、1990年にこの技術を使用していたとしてこの時点で水素生成のためのほとんどのインターネットサイトの嘲笑を海水の”電解を使用して、自分の電気を生成することを確認します。
あなたに愛
して、David C.
ワシントン州シアトル。 U.S.A.
Hello People of Japan,
I feel sorrowful for your pain and suffering. I hope that you fully recover and that your leaders learn from these mistakes in building these very dangerous Nuclear Plants. Here is some information that I have learned from living near the American Nuclear Plant accident at 3 Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. March 28-30, 1979
Water Cooled Nuclear Plants such as 3 Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pa. and those in Japan have Primary and Secondary Water cooling Loops. If these loops are breached then a disaster may occur when emergency cooling Fails as now we see. .
The Primary cooling also acts as an EXHAUST SYSTEM for the Plant.
Since the Reactor Core is a closed, pressurized chamber, it must be vented as well as cooled or it may explode because radioactive gas is created during the nuclear reaction. That information is from a Cornell University Nuclear Physicist and Engineer on March 30,1979 at a Public Rally on the Ithaca commons, Ithaca, N.Y.
.Pressure relief valves in the Reactor Core exhaust Radioactive Particles and Gases 24/7 into the Primary Loop and the Radiation is discharged out to the environment through the Cooling Towers. This Systematic, Daily Radiation release contributes to human sexual sterility and possibly a weakened immune system, resulting in susceptibility to certain viruses and other diseases of unknown origin and cancer. Radiation treatment for cancer results in a non functioning human immune system. The Patient, Victim is susceptible to any disease for which they previously had developed immunity In addition to the immediate harm from radiation release, the long term consequences are not understood by a propagandized public. Radiation degrades through 1/2 lifes, many! Plutonium, P-239’s 1/2 life is 24,500 years and must experience 20 -40 1/2 lifes to degrade. 24,500 years x 40 cycles is a very long time to safe guard materials that will end your life if touched. Plutonium is an element created in the Nuclear process.
I was within 70 Miles of Harrisburg, Pa. for 9 years prior to and after the 3 Mile Is. Accident on March 28, 1979
ALTERNATIVELY, I have been told by a Weyerhaeuser Plywood Official in Honolulu, Hi. that their Hawaii plant produces their own electricity by using the “ELECTROLYSIS OF SEAWATER for HYDROGEN GENERATION. Most Internet sites SCOFF at this as a not feasible however Weyerhaeuser was using this technology in 1990.
Love to you
David C.
Seattle, Wa. U.S.A.