A NUKE GOING OFF WHAT THROWS THE RADIATION ALL OVER-POISONING ALL.bhagas.blogspot.com
A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT-library.thinkquest.org
PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
ITS 12:10 AM MAR 14,11 AND A SECOND EXPOSION HAS OCCURED.WE WILL SEE WHAT DAY 4 BRINGS US OF THIS VERY SERIOUS SITUATION.FATHER GOD I PRAY FOR ALL THE JAPANESE THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE GIGANTIC QUAKE,TSUNAMI,NOW 2ND NUCLEAR RADIATION EXPLOSION.I PRAY FATHER THAT THE JAPANESE WILL CALL ON KING JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE WORLD,THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION.KING JESUS,THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT(THE TRINITY)-ARE THE ONLY GOD THAT CAN HELP THE JAPANESE THROUGHT THIS TRAGIC SITUATION AND TURN GOOD OUT OF A BAD SITUATION.ALL JAPANESE CALL ON KING JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR HEARTS,FORGIVE YOU OF ALL YOUR SINS BY HIS BLOOD SACRIFICE.AND I PRAY THIS ALL IN KING JESUS NAME,AMEN & AMEN.IT IS DONE.
ITS 1:35AM MAR 14,11 AND RESCUERS AWAIT ORDERS WERE TO DEPLOY IN THE QUAKE ZONE. 69 GOVERNMENTS HAVE OFFERED ASSISTANCE.THEE U.S.S RONALD REAGAN,10 U.S NAVY SHIPS.THE UK IS SENDING 11 TONS OF RESCUE EQUIPMENT.TEAMS ALSO FROM OTHER COUNTRIES OF INTERNATIONAL AID ARE-CANADA,AUSTRALIA,SPAIN,FRANCE AND GERMANY.FROM CHINA THEIR SENDING MILITARY MANPOWER AND MEDICINE.
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east (LEAD BY CHINA) might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
MATTHEW 24:33-36,39,42-44,48-50
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,(SIGNS ALL BEGGINIG TO HAPPEN) know that it is near, even at the doors.(RAPTURE,THEN 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.(SIGNS OF BIBLE PROPHECY)
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
39 And knew not until the flood came,(PEOPLE WERE CAUGHT OFF GUARD-AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT) and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
WORKERS CONTINUE TO TRY TO COOL DOWN FUEL RODS IN 2 NUCLEAR REACTOR SITES.OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL IS 1,627,BUT I HEARD 10,000 POSSIBLE DEAD AND 88,000 STILL MISSING OVER THE PAST 3 DAYS.FUEL AND FOOD ARE REALLY HARD TO COME BY.
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
ITS 1:17PM MAR 14,11.NOW SINCE 2 EXPLODED FROM THE SAME SITE.ITS OVIOUS THE OTHER 4 AT THAT SITE WILL EXPLODE ALSO AND CAUSE RADIATION TO GO ALL OVER INCLUDING AMERICA DEPENDS WERE THE AIR IS BLOWING.AND CANADA COULD BE IN DANGER TO.JAPANS GOVERNMENT IS DOING A COVERUP.THIS IS RADIATION POISONING AT ITS WORST.THIS IS WAY WORSE THEN CHERNOBYL.NOW WE FIND OUT PLANT 3 WAS A PLUTONIUM REACTOR.WAY MORE POISONOUS THEN RADAITION FROM REACTOR 1.
URGENT: Nuke Meltdown in 3 Reactors-FOX NEWS
Japanese officials say nuclear fuel rods appear to be melting inside all three of the most troubled reactors as rescuers equipped with chain saws and hand picks dig out bodies and look for survivors in devastated coastal towns.
JONES ON THE MELTDOWN(RADIATION CONTAMINATION)OF JAPAN ALL THIS WEEK
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NUKE TRACKING PAGE
http://www.infowars.com/tracking-page-japans-nuclear-meltdown-aftershocks-fallout/
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GUARDIAN.UK MAR 13,11 Japan nuclear plant faces new threat(TO READ FULL STORY)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/13/japan-second-nuclear-reactor-threat-fukushima
Tepco said the No 1 reactor had partly melted - the first time this has happened in Japan - and was continuing efforts to cool the reactor with seawater, a procedure a British nuclear expert described as an act of desperation.The company notified the government on Sunday morning that the No 3 reactor had lost the ability to cool the reactor core, and that radioactive steam was being released. Kyodo News quoted Tepco as saying that up to three metres (10ft) of fuel rods were exposed above water at the plant.Shaun Burnie, an independent nuclear energy consultant and former head of nuclear campaigns at Greenpeace, said the presence of a percentage of fuel core loaded with plutonium Mox fuel in the No 3 reactor posed a grave threat to the surrounding area.Plutonium Mox fuel increases the risk of nuclear accident due the neutronic effects of plutonium on the reactor, Burnie told the Guardian. In the event of an accident - in particular loss of coolant - the reactor core is more difficult to control due to both neutronics and higher risk of fuel cladding failure. In the event of the fuel melting and the release of plutonium fuel into the environment, the health hazards are greater, including higher levels of latent cancer.The Mox fuel was delivered in 1999 and was loaded into the reactor by Tepco only last year after sitting in Fukushima storage ponds amid opposition and delays from the prefecture's governor, Burnie said.The No 3 reactor is the sixth facing risks because of loss of cooling water since Friday's devastating quake and tsunami.
Tepco last night filled the No 1 reactor with seawater and boric acid to prevent criticality - an uncontrolled nuclear reaction - hours after an explosion blew away the roof and walls of a building housing the reactor.The blast is thought to have occurred when hydrogen being released from the reactor mixed with oxygen either in the air or in cooling water.
Radiation From Fukushima Would Take 7 Days To Reach U.S. -Prevailing wind conditions would send fallout drifting towards west coast cities Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com Monday, March 14, 2011http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCWGc173ic&feature=player_embedded
Radioactive particles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear facility would take around a week to reach Alaska and eleven days to reach Los Angeles, according to an Accuweather.com analysis, which highlights the fact that prevailing winds over the region would send any potential fallout from the crisis-hit plant drifting towards west coast cities in the United States.Given the fact that many analysts believe the Japanese government is grossly understating the amount of radioactive particles released by the two separate explosions to affect the Fukushima plant, one which occurred Saturday and one earlier today, monitoring stations in Alaska will not know if there is a threat from such radiation until Saturday at the earliest.Radiation detected at the Fukushima plant on Monday is twice the maximum seen so far, the BBC is reporting, citing Kyodo News.An Accuweather.com analysis highlights how prevailing wind trajectories would take the radiation from a westerly direction towards the west coast of the United States.
A typical wind trajectory across the Pacific is westerly, since there is often a large dome of high pressure over the central Pacific and an area of low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska, writes meteorologist Meghan Evans.Today’s localized winds are set to carry any radiation out into the Pacific from a north westerly to south easterly direction. However, The wind direction will switch to an onshore direction Monday night into Tuesday, threatening to send the radiation toward the population, writes Evans.This is not good news, since an onshore direction would blow most of the radiation toward populated areas. An added threat is that with higher elevations just about 4 miles inland from the power plants, if a temperature inversion sets up in the atmosphere, radiation could be trapped.The worst case scenario is that localized winds could take the fallout south to Tokyo, and the prevailing westerly winds could also carry upper atmosphere particles towards the U.S.It would take roughly seven days for the radiation to reach Anchorage, eight days until it reached Honolulu, ten days for Seattle and eleven days before it hit Los Angeles, according to figures calculated by Expert Senior Global Meteorologist Jim Andrews.
Assurances from officials that any radiation would dissipate over the Pacific Ocean before reaching the United States are tenuous given the fact that pollution from Chinese coal factories, traveling significantly greater distances, routinely hits California.Previous studies have documented that dust from Asia — especially from deserts and industrial regions of China — routinely crosses the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds to sully the air over the western U.S., highlights Massie Santos Ballon, a student in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has also studied how, About a third of the airborne lead particles recently collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia.Weather conditions will hugely influence where any potential radiation falls. If there is a significant amount of rainfall, which has been forecast for the next few days, the majority of the radiation will fall in a localized area. However, drier conditions will allow any radiation to travel much further.As we featured in our earlier report, nuclear expert Joe Cirincione also fears that radiation from the Japanese nuclear plant could also reach the west coast.When Fox News host Chris Wallace questioned whether radioactivity could travel thousands of miles across the Pacific, Cirincione responded, Oh, absolutely. Chernobyl, which happened about 25 years ago, the radioactivity spread around the entire northern hemisphere. It depends how many of these cores melt down and how successful they are on containing it once this disaster happens.Concern surrounding the likely path of any radiation is emphasized by the fact that the French embassy is now, Advising its citizens to leave Tokyo and its surroundings in case a cloud of radiation heads to the city.
Latest update 02:11 13.03.11-Japan nuclear blast could be more deadly than Chernobyl, experts fear
Experts in Israel and abroad divided on scope of disaster at Japan's nuclear plants, as Japanese government hasn't provided accurate information regarding threat posed by explosions at Fukushima nuclear power plant. By Yossi Melman Since the Japanese government has not provided accurate information regarding the possible threat posed by the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, experts in Israel and abroad are divided on the scope of the disaster and the ramifications for the environment.
It appears that immediately after earthquake warnings were first heard, the Japanese authorities shut down all six reactors located in the affected region, which lies 250 kilometers north of the capital Tokyo, by cutting off the flow of electricity to the reactors. But the emergency generator, whose function is to provide power to the pump responsible for cooling the reactor, did not activate. As a result, the reactor's core began to heat up. At the same time, radioactive materials and gases were emitted into the air, but measurements taken indicate that the amount was relatively minimal. The most dangerous elements discharged were iodine and cesium, two by-products of the nuclear fission process that takes place in nuclear plants. These are two relatively volatile compounds that can easily spread into the atmosphere.Professor Uzi Even of Tel Aviv University, who in the past worked for the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, told Haaretz that these two compounds are extremely dangerous, which is why the Japanese government yesterday began distributing iodine tablets, which neutralize the threat of radioactive poisoning that primarily affects the thyroid gland.Even recalled that several years ago, Israel had distributed such tablets to residents living in the vicinity of the nuclear reactor in Dimona in the event that dangerous materials leaked into the air. He also noted that another potential source of danger is the possibility that the measuring equipment used to gauge the heat levels in the reactor core could spin out of control as a result of a cut in power. In such a scenario, Japanese experts working to prevent a nuclear disaster would have trouble ascertaining the core's situation.
Hebrew University Professor Menachem Luria, an expert on air quality and poisoning, told Channel 2 on Saturday: This is very worrying. There is no doubt that we have not seen anything like this in years, perhaps ever since nuclear experiments were conducted in the atmosphere in the 1950s. From what we can gather, this disaster is even more dangerous than Chernobyl, both from the standpoint of the population's exposure to radioactive material and the spread of radioactive contamination in the area.Luria continued: "Once there is an uncontrollable heating up, the nuclear fuel undergoes a metamorphosis into the gaseous phase. Since we are talking about metals and solid items, they turn into particles that are capable of traveling great distances. They can wander thousands of kilometers.If these gases are indeed emitted into the atmosphere in large quantities, the wind regime could carry them all the way to China, South Korea, and eastern Russia, or in the other direction, toward Hawaii and the west coast of the United States. The likelihood of this happening, though, is not high. Experts are now positing two possible scenarios. This first scenario is a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl, where the reactor core melted and enormous quantities of radioactive fallout were discharged into the air before being propelled by the wind and harming civilians living at a relatively great distance from the reactor. Because the core melted, the steel and concrete seal, which was meant to protect the core and prevent dangerous material from being emitted into the air, could not withstand the pressure and collapsed. As a result, thousands of people were killed, though the exact number of deaths remains unknown to this day.
Tide of 1,000 bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan By JAY ALABASTER and TODD PITMAN, Associated Press - 9:15AM MAR 14,11
TAKAJO, Japan – A tide of bodies washed up along Japan's coastline, crematoriums were overwhelmed and rescue workers ran out of body bags as the nation faced the grim reality of a mounting humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis Monday after a calamitous tsunami.Millions of people were facing a fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures in the northeast devastated by an earthquake and the wave it spawned. Meanwhile, a third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity and the fuel rods at another were at least briefly fully exposed, raising fears of a meltdown. The stock market plunged over the likelihood of huge losses by Japanese industries including big names such as Toyota and Honda.A Japanese police official said 1,000 washed up bodies were found scattered Monday across the coastline of Miyagi prefecture. The official declined to be named, citing department policy.The discovery raised the official death toll to about 2,800, but the Miyagi police chief has said that more than 10,000 people are estimated to have died in his province alone, which has a population of 2.3 million.
In one town in a neighboring prefecture, the crematorium was unable to handle the crush of bodies being brought in for funerals.We have already begun cremations, but we can only handle 18 bodies a day. We are overwhelmed and are asking other cites to help us deal with bodies. We only have one crematorium in town, Katsuhiko Abe, an official in Soma, told The Associated Press.In Japan, most people opt to cremate their dead, a process that, like burial, requires permission first from local authorities. But the government took the rare step Monday of waiving that requirement to speed up funerals, said Health Ministry official Yukio Okuda.The current situation is so extraordinary, and it is very likely that crematoriums are running beyond capacity, said Okuda.This is an emergency measure. We want to help quake-hit people as much as we can.Friday's double tragedy has caused unimaginable deprivation for people of this industrialized country — Asia's richest — which hasn't seen such hardship since World War II. In many areas there is no running water, no power and four- to five-hour waits for gasoline. People are suppressing hunger with instant noodles or rice balls while dealing with the loss of loved ones and homes.People are surviving on little food and water. Things are simply not coming, said Hajime Sato, a government official in Iwate prefecture, one of the three hardest hit.
He said authorities were receiving just 10 percent of the food and other supplies they need. Body bags and coffins were running so short that the government may turn to foreign funeral homes for help, he said.We have requested funeral homes across the nation to send us many body bags and coffins. But we simply don't have enough, he told the AP. We just did not expect such a thing to happen. It's just overwhelming.The pulverized coast has been hit by hundreds of aftershocks since Friday, the latest one a 6.2 magnitude quake that was followed by a new tsunami scare Monday. As sirens wailed, soldiers abandoned their search operations and told residents of the devastated shoreline in Soma, the worst hit town in Fukushima prefecture, to run to higher ground.They barked out orders: Find high ground! Get out of here! Several soldiers were seen leading an old woman up a muddy hillside. The warning turned out to be a false alarm.Search parties arrived in Soma for the first time since Friday to dig out bodies. Ambulances stood by and body bags were laid out in an area cleared of debris, as firefighters used hand picks and chain saws to clear an indescribable jumble of broken timber, plastic sheets, roofs, sludge, twisted cars, tangled powerlines and household goods.Helicopters buzzed overhead, surveying the destruction that spanned the horizon. Ships were flipped over near roads, a half-mile (a kilometer) inland. Officials said one-third of the city of 38,000 people was flooded and thousands were missing.In addition to the more than 2,800 people who have been confirmed dead, more than 1,400 were missing. Another 1,900 were injured.Japanese officials have refused to speculate on how high the death toll could rise, but experts who dealt with the 2004 Asian tsunami offered a dire outlook.
It's a miracle really, if it turns out to be less than 10,000 (dead), said Hery Harjono, a senior geologist with the Indonesian Science Institute, who was closely involved with the aftermath of the earlier disaster that killed 230,000 people — of which only 184,000 bodies were found.He drew parallels between the two disasters — notably that many bodies in Japan may have been sucked out to sea or remain trapped beneath rubble as they did in Indonesia's hardest-hit Aceh province. But he also stressed that Japan's infrastructure, high-level of preparedness and city planning to keep houses away from the shore could mitigate their human losses.The Japanese government has sent 100,000 troops to lead the aid effort. It has sent 120,000 blankets, 120,000 bottles of water and 29,000 gallons (110,000 liters) of gasoline plus food to the affected areas. However, electricity will take days to restore.
According to public broadcaster NHK, some 430,000 people are living in emergency shelters or with relatives. Another 24,000 people are stranded, it said.One reason for the loss of power is the damage several nuclear reactors in the area. At one plant, Fukushima Dai-ichi, three reactors have lost the ability to cool down, the latest on Monday. Explosions have destroyed the containment buildings of the other two reactors. Fuel rods at the third were fully explosed, at least briefly, on Monday.Operators were dumping sea water into all three reactors in a last-ditch attempt to cool their superheated containers that faced possible meltdown. If that happens, they could release radioactive material in the air.
But Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the inner containment vessel holding the nuclear fuel rods at the reactor that experienced an explosion Monday was intact, allaying some fears of the risk to the environment. The containment vessel of the first reactor is also safe, according to officials.Still, people within a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius were ordered to stay inside homes following the blast. AP journalists felt Monday's explosion 25 miles (40 kilometers) away.
Military personnel on helicopters returning to ships with the U.S. 7th Fleet registered low-level of radioactive contamination Monday, but were cleared after a scrub-down. As a precaution, the ship shifted to a different area off the coast.
More than 180,000 people have evacuated the area around the plants in recent days.
Also, Tokyo Electric Power held off on imposing rolling blackouts planned for Monday, but called for people to try to limit electricity use.Edano said the utility was still prepared to go ahead with power rationing if necessary. The decision reflected an understanding of the profound inconveniences many would experience.
Many regional train lines were suspended or operating on a limited schedule to help reduce the power load.Japan's central bank injected 15 trillion yen (US$184 billion) into money markets Monday to stem worries about the world's third-largest economy.
Stocks fell Monday on the first business day after the disasters. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average shed nearly 634 points, or 6.2 percent, to 9,620.49, extending losses from Friday. Escalating concerns over the fallout of the disaster triggered a plunge that hit all sectors. The broader Topix index lost 7.5 percent.
Japan's economy has been ailing for 20 years, barely managing to eke out weak growth between slowdowns. It is saddled by a massive public debt that, at 200 percent of gross domestic product, is the biggest among industrialized nations.Preliminary estimates put repair costs from the earthquake and tsunami in the tens of billions of dollars — a huge blow for an already fragile economy that lost its place as the world's No. 2 to China last year.Pitman reported from Sendai. Associated Press writers Eric Talmadge in Soma, Kelly Olsen in Koriyama, Malcolm J. Foster, Mari Yamaguchi, Tomoko A. Hosaka and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.
Japan begins to dig for dead amid nuclear crisis By JAY ALABASTER and TODD PITMAN, Associated Press - MON MAR 14,11
TAKAJO, Japan – Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japan's devastated coastal towns, as Asia's richest nation faced a mounting humanitarian, nuclear and economic crisis in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed thousands.Millions of people spent a third night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures along the devastated northeastern coast; the containment building of a second nuclear reactor exploded because of hydrogen buildup while the stock market plunged over the likelihood of huge losses by Japanese industries including big names such as Toyota and Honda.More than 10,000 people are estimated to have died in Friday's double-headed tragedy, which caused unimaginable deprivation for people of this industrialized country that has not seen such hardships since World War II. In many areas there is no running water, no power and four- to five-hour waits for gasoline. People are suppressing hunger with instant noodles or rice balls while dealing with the loss of loved ones and homes.People are surviving on little food and water. Things are simply not coming, said Hajime Sato, a government official in Iwate prefecture, one of the three hardest hit.We have repeatedly asked the government to help us, but the government is overwhelmed by the scale of damage and enormous demand for food and water, he told The Associated Press.We are only getting around just 10 percent of what we have requested. But we are patient because everyone in the quake-hit areas is suffering.He said local authorities were also running out of body bags and coffins.
We have requested funeral homes across the nation to send us many body bags and coffins. But we simply don't have enough. We just did not expect such a thing to happen. It's just overwhelming.Sato said local authorities may ask foreign funeral homes to send supplies.The pulverized coast has been hit by more than 150 aftershocks since Friday, the latest one a 6.2 magnitude quake that was followed by a new tsunami scare Monday. Abandoning their search operations, soldiers told residents of the devastated shoreline in Soma, the worst hit town in Fukushima prefecture, to run to higher ground.Sirens wailed and soldiers shouted find high ground! Get out of here! Several uniformed soldiers were seen leading an old woman up a muddy hillside. The warning turned out to be a false alarm.This is Japan's most severe crisis since the war ended 65 years ago, Prime Minister Naoto Kan told reporters Sunday, adding that Japan's future would be decided by its response.Search parties arrived in Soma for the first time since Friday to dig out bodies. Ambulances stood by and body bags were laid out in an area cleared of debris, as firefighters used hand picks and chain saws to clear an indescribable jumble of broken timber, plastic sheets, roofs, sludge, twisted cars, tangled powerlines and household goods.
Helicopters buzzed overhead, surveying the destruction that spanned the horizon. Ships were flipped over near roads, a half mile (a kilometer) inland. Officials said one-third of the city of 38,000 people was flooded and thousands were missing.According to officials, more than 1,800 people have been confirmed dead — including 200 people whose bodies were found Sunday along the coast — and more than 1,400 were missing in Friday's disasters. Another 1,900 were injured.But police in Miyagi prefecture say 10,000 people are likely dead in their area alone. Miyagi, with a population of 2.3 million, was one of the hardest hit areas.I'm giving up hope, said Hajime Watanabe, 38, a construction industry worker, who was the first in line at a closed gas station in Sendai, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Soma. Just then, an emergency worker came over and told him that if the station opens at all, it would pump gasoline only to emergency teams and essential government workers.I never imagined we would be in such a situation Watanabe said. I had a good life before. Now we have nothing. No gas, no electricity, no water.He said he was surviving with his family on 60 half-liter bottles of water his wife had stored in case of emergencies like this. He walked two hours to find a convenience store that was open and waited in line to buy dried ramen noodles.The government has sent 100,000 troops to spearhead the aid effort. It has sent 120,000 blankets, 120,000 bottles of water and 29,000 gallons (110,000 liters) of gasoline plus food to the affected areas. However electricity would take days to restore.At least 1.4 million households had gone without water since the quake struck and some 1.9 million households were without electricity.
One reason for the loss of power is the damage to at least three nuclear reactors, two of them at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.Operators dumped seawater into the two reactors in a last-ditch attempt to cool their super-heated containers that faced possible meltdown. If that happens, they could release radioactive material in the air. On Monday, the containment building of the second reactor exploded, just as the first one had on Saturday.But Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the reactor's inner containment vessel holding the nuclear fuel rods was intact, allaying some fears of the risk to the environment. The containment vessel of the first reactor is also safe, according to officials.Still, people within a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius were ordered to stay inside homes following the blast. AP journalists felt the explosion 25 miles (40 kilometers) away.More than 180,000 people have evacuated the area in recent days, and up to 160 may have been exposed to radiation after the first blast.Also, Tokyo Electric Power held off on imposing rolling blackouts planned for Monday, but called for people try to limit electricity use.Edano said the utility was still prepared to go ahead with power rationing if necessary. The decision reflected an understanding of the profound inconveniences many would experience.Many regional train lines were suspended or operating on a limited schedule to help reduce the power load.The planned blackouts of about three hours each were meant to help make up for a severe shortfall after key nuclear plants were left inoperable due to the earthquake and tsunami.Japan's central bank has injected 7 trillion yen (US$85.5 billion) into money markets Monday to stem worries about the world's third-largest economy.Stocks fell in early trading Monday on the first business day after the disasters. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average shed 494 points, or 4.8 percent, to 9,760.45 just after the market opened.
Preliminary estimates put repair costs from the earthquake and tsunami that struck Friday in the tens of billions of dollars — a huge blow for an already fragile economy that lost its place as the world's No. 2 to China last year.In the town of Minamisanrikucho, 10,000 people — nearly two-thirds of the population — have not been heard from since the tsunami wiped it out, a government spokesman said. About a third of the town of Soma was wiped out, with several hundred homes washed away. Three districts of town on the shoreline are now covered in rubble, overturned cars and trucks and waist-high, dirty green water. A tiny pink girl's bicycle, all twisted up, sits near a child's backpack — just some of the personal belongings littering the landscape.Atsushi Shishito sat in a daze on the concrete foundation of his home, now completely washed away. He sleeps at an evacuation center. The 30-year-old carried his grandmother to higher ground to escape the tsunami.All my other relatives are all dead, he added.Washed away.Pitman reported from Sendai. Associated Press writers Kelly Olsen in Koriyama and Malcolm J. Foster, Mari Yamaguchi, Tomoko A. Hosaka and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo contributed to this report.
Japan quake: live report
- MAR 14,11 5:20AM
HONG KONG (AFP) – 0916 GMT: Stocks in German insurers and power companies have plunged in early trading. Shares in the world's biggest re-insurance group, Munich Re, are down by 4.43 percent at 106.8 euros, while general insurer Allianz has lost 3.40 percent to 96.43 euros. On Friday, Munich Re had already lost 4.28 percent and Allianz 2.14 percent.
0910 GMT: The International Skating Union says it has called off the World Figure Skating Championships, which were due to be held in Tokyo from March 21-27. ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta said it had yet to be decided whether the event should be cancelled, or just postponed.
0852 GMT: Japan's nuclear safety agency says there is no possibility of a Chernobyl style accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, Jiji Press quotes national strategy minister Koichiro Genba as saying.
0837 GMT: A meeting of foreign ministers from Japan, South Korea and China will go ahead in the Japanese city of Kyoto despite the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated the country, the South Korean government says.
0835 GMT: A US aircraft carrier deployed off Japan has repositioned after detecting low-level radiation from the malfunctioning nuclear power plants. The US Seventh Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and aircraft away from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi (No. 1) nuclear power plant after detecting low level contamination in the air and on its aircraft operating in the area, the Seventh Fleet says in a statement.
0825 GMT: Following an online outcry, Microsoft has apologised for using a Japan quake fund-raising Twitter service as an advertising ploy, The Drum reports. Microsoft had asked its @Bing Twitter followers to retweet a message about the quake, with every retweet meaning an extra $1 would be donated by Microsoft, up to $100,000. The company tweeted a clarification message: We apologise the tweet was negatively perceived. Intent was to provide an easy way for people to help Japan. We have donated $100K.
0815 GMT: France's industry minister has said the risk of a meltdown at the Japanese nuclear plant is worrying and a nuclear disaster could not be ruled out.
0814 GMT: A tweet from Japan?s deputy cabinet secretary for public relations Noriyuki Shikata says: After the blast of Unit 3, the cooling function of Unit 2 was stopped. Injection of sea water into Unit 2 is now being prepared.
0809 GMT: Experts have told the BBC that a Chernobyl -style disaster is highly unlikely because Japan's reactors are built to a much higher standard and have more rigorous safety measures.
0806 GMT: Philippine authorities have been checking for spikes in radiation levels following the explosions at the Japanese nuclear plant, but that there had been no irregular increases.
0746 GMT: 17 US Navy personnel on board three helicopters assisting in the earthquake relief effort have been exposed to low levels of contamination, the New York Times reports officials as saying. The newspaper says the Ronald Reagan and other American warships have now sailed to areas where they will not be in the path of radiation carried in the wind.
0712 GMT: Kyodo reports that about 1,000 bodies have been found on the Ojika peninsula and another 1,000 found in the town of Minamisanriku. Rescuers have still not been able to reach many remote towns and villages.
0710 GMT: While Tokyo is up and running, residents are experiencing many aftershocks, not all trains are running and the government has asked people to only travel if they really have to, the BBC reports. Residents are facing fuel rationing, with long lines outside petrol stations. Supermarkets are running out of stock and the population has been warned of power rationing, which will affect water supply to homes and offices.
0700 GMT: Technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are all offering digital ways to donate to Japan's recovery efforts. Apple has set up an option on its iTunes software to allow registered users to donate from $5 to $200 to the American Red Cross. The Red Cross has also launched a campaign on Facebook. Twitter is being updated by the second and directing people to resources on the ground and offering ways to donate to help survivors.
0658 GMT: A German businessman has told the BBC that due to a lack of confidence in what the Japanese government is telling the public, some foreign firms have started to move their expatriate staff south -- or out of the country altogether.
0655 GMT: The primary containment vessel at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant was not damaged in today's explosion, the UN atomic watchdog IAEA says.
0650 GMT: Russia has reported normal radiation levels in the country's Far East and said there is no reason to evacuate residents following a second explosion at a Japanese nuclear plant.
0641 GMT: The operator TEPCO says the cooling system on reactor 2 at the Fukushima's plant has failed, Jiji Press report.
0624 GMT: Shares in nuclear plant operator TEPCO have plunged 23.57 percent in Tokyo trade.
0555 GMT: The Bank of Japan has announced extra measures following the widespread disaster.
0527 GMT: Following the blast at Fukushima 1, Japanese officials have been reassuring the public that radiation levels are within legal limits, the BBC reports.
0524 GMT: A New York Times report says that the US aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan passed through a radioactive cloud from Japan's stricken reactors on Sunday. The report said crew members received a month's worth of radiation in about an hour.
0510 GMT: The Fukushima reactor container was not breached in this morning's blast and there has been no major rise in radiation, according to government officials. The blast was caused by a build-up of hydrogen in the building around the No. 3 reactor, similar to Saturday's blast at the same plant.
0500 GMT: Toyota is to halt production at all domestic plants through to Wednesday - Kyodo.
0500 GMT: Food imported from Japan is being tested for radiation in Singapore. The bulk of Japanese imports arrive by sea, but high-end Japanese restaurants in Singapore routinely use air freight to fly in produce such as raw fish -- integral to sushi and sashimi -- to ensure its freshness and quality.
0457 GMT: In Iwate, one of the areas hit the hardest by the quake and tsunami, officials have made an appeal for body bags and coffins as the death toll rises.
0427 GMT: Eleven people are now reported, by Kyodo, to have been injured in the latest nuclear plant blast according to the operator TEPCO.
0421 GMT: A tsunami alert has been lifted in Japan, according to Fukushima prefecture officials.
0400 GMT: Seven people initially listed as missing in an explosion at the earthquake-damaged Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant have been located, Jiji Press reports. A total of nine people have been injured in the blast, the report says.
0352 GMT: A Malaysian newspaper has apologised after it triggered uproar with a cartoon depicting the popular Japanese icon Ultraman running away from an oncoming tsunami. The Malay-language Berita Harian drew heavy criticism, especially on social networking websites, after it published the cartoon on Sunday on its comment page.
0341 GMT: Tokyo stocks have fallen 6 percent in afternoon trading.
0317 GMT: A large wave has been spotted off Japan's coast by a helicopter, but the meteorological agency says it has detected no sign of a new tsunami or a major quake that would have triggered it.
Authorities had issued evacuation orders in some parts of the devastated coastline after the initial report and as seawater was seen retreating off Iwate and Aomori prefectures -- a phenomenon that occurs before tsunamis.
0311GMT: Japan nuclear plant operator says 7 missing, 3 injured after a blast at the facility.
0254 GMT: An explosion at the quake-damaged number 3 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 plant did not apparently breach the reactor, the chief government spokesman Yukio Edano says.
0240 GMT: Japan nuke plant operator TEPCO says the reactor survived explosion, reports Jiji news agency.
0229 GMT: An explosion has shaken a quake-damaged Japanese nuclear power plant and plumes of smoke are rising from the building, live television shows. Japan's nuclear safety agency says the blast, at the number 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, is believed to be caused by hydrogen.
0214 GMT: The water level off Japan's coast has dropped 5 metres as tsunami nears, says state broadcaster NHK.
0212 GMT: Japan's central bank announces that it will pump another 5 trillion yen ($61 billion) into the short-term money market, after earlier injecting a record 7 trillion to boost confidence .
0208 GMT: Estimated three-metre (10 foot) tsunami seen off Japan by helicopter, says Jiji news agency.
0200 GMT: As Japan struggles with a severe energy shortage, South Korea says it will redirect some of its liquefied natural gas imports to Japan to help its disaster-hit neighbour.
Japanese electricity operators have predicted it will take more than a month for Tokyo to offset shortages caused by damage to its nuclear power plants.
0156 GMT: The government has advised people not to go to school or work today due to widespread power cuts and transport disruptions, including in the capital Tokyo.
0150 GMT: The rescue of three senior citizens who had been trapped in a tsunami-swept car for 20 hours has been shown on Japan's television network NHK.
0148 GMT: The latest quake off coastal Ibaraki prefecture -- one of many aftershocks since Friday's massive 8.9 quake -- had a 5.8-magnitude, said the US Geological Survey, which said the quake struck at a depth of 18 kilometres.
0113 GMT: A strong offshore earthquake has struck 150 kilometres (90 miles) northeast of Tokyo, shaking tall buildings in Japan's capital, but authorities have not issued a tsunami alert.
0054 GMT: A nuclear power plant damaged by Japan's deadly earthquake and tsunami is still in an 'alarming' state, Prime Minister Naoto Kan says according to Kyodo News.
0021 GMT: Japan's central bank has injected a record 7 trillion yen ($85.7 bln) into the short-term money market, in an attempt to build confidence after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
0000 GMT: The yen briefly touched a four-month high against the dollar in early Asian trade on Monday with currency markets responding to Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Second explosion at stricken Japan nuke plant
By ERIC TALMADGE Posted 11:57 PM ET MAR 13,11
SOMA, Japan (AP) — The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding six workers. It was not immediately clear how much — if any — radiation had been released.The explosion at the plant's Unit 3, which authorities have been frantically trying to cool following a system failure in the wake of a massive earthquake and tsunami, triggered an order for hundreds of people to stay indoors, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.The blast follows a similar explosion Saturday that took place at the plant's Unit 1, which injured four workers and caused mass-evacuations.Japan's nuclear safety agency said six workers were injured in Monday's explosion but it was not immediately clear how, or whether they were exposed to radiation. They were all conscious, said the agency's Ryohei Shomi.Earlier, Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the reactor, said three workers were injured and seven missing.The reactor's inner containment vessel holding nuclear rods was intact, Edano said, allaying some fears of the risk to the environment and public. TV footage of the building housing the reactor appeared to show similar damage to Monday's blast, with outer walls shorn off, leaving only a skeletal frame.More than 180,000 people have evacuated the area in recent days, and up to 160 may have been exposed to radiation.
Earlier Monday, pressure had jumped inside Unit 3, forcing the evacuation of 21 workers. But they returned to work after levels appeared to ease.Associated Press journalists felt the explosion in the tsunami-devastated port town of Soma, some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the reactor. They reported feeling the faint rumble a blast and the ground shaking.At the time, sirens were wailing as rescue workers were in the midst of evacuating all those in the city to high ground due to a tsunami warning. That turned out to be a false alarm.Associated Press writers Shino Yuasa, Tomoko Hosaka, Elaine Kurtenbach and Joji Sakurai in Tokyo contributed to this report.
