Massive 8.9 earthquake, tsunami hit Japan

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The American Air force were reported to be taking the coolent which is used for cooling the reactor under emergency situations like this. I think it was of no use. The radiationn might have been very high and there was no possibility for the workers to enter the area. But really a daunting task ahead for the Japanese authorities, the Disaster rescue and recovery team and mainly the people of JAPAN.
 

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Nuclear emergency has been declared on all the five nuclear plants and the surrounding areas. The AUTOMAKERS and manufacturers have stopped their work and are being evacuvated. NUCLEAR EMERGENCY has been declared all over JAPAN. The situation is critical and the International Community has to do something now.
 

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Any reports of Indian government offering any assistance to Japan? The British officials are taking efforts to contact each of their 17,000 citizens in Japan to enquire baout their well being and have dispatched a 10 man team to coordinate these contacts and counsel them. Wonder if Indian officials have attempted something for 25,000-30,000 Indians living in Japan.. from the reports coming out..precious little.
 

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About half of the population of the MIYAGI city are missing. More than 1,300 people have been reported dead. It is the THE MOST DANGEROUS and THE MOST WORST EARTH QUAKE for JAPAN as the damage it caused is very high, in terms of the damage done to the peoperty and on the other hand also the economy of JAPAN too.
 
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http://www.sify.com/news/india-s-nu...says-scientist-news-national-ldmtahggcdi.html

India's nuclear reactors are safe, says scientist

Bangalore: Japan's killer earthquake that caused a nuclear reactor to shut down and a radiation scare are unlikely to negatively impact India's ambitious nuclear power programme, says a nuclear scientist and former official of the atomic energy regulatory board (AERB).

'I honestly am not worried about the Japanese incident casting a 'scientific' shadow in India,' K S Parthasarathi, who was until recently the secretary of AERB, said. 'I know the country will stand it.'

Explosion at Japan nuclear plant

Parthasarathi said that AERB will 'definitely take a relook' at the design features of the operating reactors in the light of what happened to the Fukushima plant of Japan after Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake but there is no reason to think that Indian reactors will face a similar situation.

'Our reactors may not be ready for 8.9 magnitude quake but what is the probability of this happening in India?' he asked.

'This magnitude earthquake may happen only in the Himalayan region and that is one of the reasons we are not going to build any reactor there.

'Our existing reactors withstood without problem all major tremors like the 7.7 magnitude quake that rocked Bhuj in Gujarat in 2001,' he said.

There are some 60 sensors in a reactor, any of which can shut down the reactor automatically if it sensed something wrong. In the case of the Bhuj earthquake, the reactors did not even shut down.

When a hydrogen explosion at the Narora reactor stopped the coolant flow to the reactor core, no radiation leak took place as the passive cooling system took over, he said.

Because of its geographic location, Japan is vulnerable to high intensity earthquake, Parthasarathi said.

'The Indian condition is different. Even then we study three-year micro-seismic data and look at the historical data of a site before locating an atomic reactor there.'

The country is divided into five zones from the point of earthquake vulnerability, and 'we will not allow any reactor to be built in any part of the country that lies above zone 4,' he said.

'There is a terrible propaganda going on to stop construction of nuclear plants at Jaitapur in Maharashtra by saying it lies in zone 4,' Parthasarathi said.

'It is actully in zone 3,' he said, adding the country has to take a decision based on scientific facts and not misinformation.
 
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LF bhai what does the map exactly say? Please I don't have any Idea about the radiation.
The first 3 days will be the most concentrated radiation with the highest rads and more localized, after 10 days the radiation levels will decrease but the area it spreads over will have increased reaching west coast of USA.
 

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Japan quake: 9,500 missing in Miyagi prefecture

Japan quake: 9,500 missing in Miyagi prefecture

Yahoo! India News – Sat, Mar 12, 2011 2:57 PM IST

Japan scrambled on Saturday to avert a disastrous meltdown at a nuclear plant damaged when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast coast, killing at least 1,300 people.

Jiji news agency said there had been an explosion at the stricken 40-year-old Daichi 1 reactor and TV footage showed vapour rising from the plant, which lies 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.



Read more: http://in.news.yahoo.com/edano-confirms-radiation-leak-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant.html

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This sad event will cause the Japanese overseas money returning to Japan. Japan has very big investment in India, your SENSEX will fall tomorrow, so bad for Indian medium-term or/and long-term economy.
 
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My honest advice: don't buy weapons, your don't need them, use the money for people.
 

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My honest advice: don't buy weapons, your don't need them, use the money for people.
Not relevant. Since Japan has a per-capita GDP about 8 times that of China.

Nations need both weapons and development, a balance between the two: to keep the polity and economy safe and make weapons-buying possible in the first place. In fact the one is not possible without the other. Make no mistake about it.
 

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This sad event will cause the Japanese overseas money returning to Japan. Japan has very big investment in India, your SENSEX will fall tomorrow, so bad for Indian medium-term or/and long-term economy.
Its really sad that some people are still thinking about investment and economy at such a sad incident . Its fact that Japanese have big investment in India and there will be an outflow. But I also see as a chance for Japanese to show the world that they are still same country with same resolve and hard working capability. This is a chance for growth in economy and Japanese economy will grow at much faster pace in coming years. Sometimes destruction is necessary for growth.
 

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