03-11-2011, 07:05 PM
(03-11-2011, 05:59 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: they're all going to China~~
Tokyo (CNN) -- Japanese authorities rushed Friday to cool down fears as well as high temperatures inside a nuclear power plant rattled by Friday's mammoth earthquake, with the nation's prime minister planning a trip to personally inspect the atomic facility.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) north of Tokyo, "remains at a high temperature" because it "cannot cool down," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.
reports say radiation 1000x normal.
could cause meltdown of reactor.
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2149: The Kyodo news agency is now citing a safety panel as saying that the
radiation level inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant is 1,000 times higher than normal.
That's terrifying! I really hope they get that under control.
(03-11-2011, 06:51 PM)BlueTiki Wrote: My brother is emailing a Japanese colleague in Sendai, at this very moment.
She is a Japanese judge who was examining American jurisprudence (specifically trial by jury), as the Japanese use a three judge panel to decide cases. No trial by jury.
Sendai was destroyed by the quake.
Emailing as in trying to reach her? Or getting new info?
Sendai is the place they showed the airport being hit, right?