Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 4:15:00 PM CET
Americans in Japan alerted to nuclear evacuation
The US embassy in Tokyo alerted US citizens in Japan Saturday of an evacuation order around a stricken nuclear power plant, the State Department said.
The embassy's message warned Americans living or traveling to Fukushima Prefecture that Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency "has recommended that people who live within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Okumacho evacuate the area immediately."
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Topic: NATURE - on March 12, 2011 at 4:10:00 PM CET
Minami-Sanriku Machi - 10,000 people are missing Google Earth coordinates
Fuji TV: 10,000 people missing in tsunami-hit town of Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi prefecture (population: 17,800)
Fuji News Network [fnn-news.com]
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elpais.com -- NHK reports that 5,000 homes in Rikuzentakada City, Iwate Prefecture, have been flooded. In Arahama, 2,700 homes are missing. ---Positions of the Nuclear Power Plants near Fukushima
bbs.keyhole.com [kmz] ----Fukushima 3D map in Google Earth
maplandia.com -----Fukushima Google Satellite Map
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Japan raced to avert a nuclear meltdown today by flooding a nuclear reactor with seawater after Friday's massive earthquake left more than 600 people dead and thousands more missing. Towns in the country's northeast coast were literally wiped away by an ensuing tsunami, leaving countless people seeking shelter in the aftermath of the quake, which measured 8.9 on the Richter scale and was the country's strongest recorded quake. -- Lloyd Young 44 photos total) boston.com
Photos: Scenes from the earthquake
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 3:04:00 PM CET
Japanese authorities are making plans to distribute iodine to residents near the Fukushima nuclear plant. This helps to protect against radiation poisoning of the thyroid gland.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 12, 2011 at 2:55:00 PM CET
Arab League chief calls for Libya no-fly zone
Arab League chief Amr Moussa called for a no-fly zone over Libya in an interview with a German magazine on Saturday, ahead of the group meeting in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the proposal.
"I am speaking of a humanitarian action," he said in comments to Der Spiegel released on Saturday. "It is about assisting the Libyan people with a no-fly zone in their struggle for freedom against an increasingly inhuman regime."
reuters.com Youssef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the Omani foreign minister, has called for "Arab intervention" in Libya in his opening remarks at the Arab League meeting
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 1:24:00 PM CET
Japan's nuclear power operator has chequered past
The company at the centre ofa nuclear reactor crisis following the biggest earthquake inJapan's recorded history has had a rocky past in an industryplagued by scandal.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 12:45:00 PM CET
The density of the radiation amount did not increase following the explosion. The earlier reported figure, 1050, was actually inaccurate.
The radiation level actually decreased, he claims, after the explosion.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 11:07:00 AM CET
Japan earthquake live report
News, emergency information, live reaction
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 9:38:00 AM CET
Explosion im AKW Fukushima
In dem japanischen Atomkraftwerk Fukushima I hat sich heute nach Angaben der Nachrichtenagentur Jiji eine Explosion ereignet. Auf TV-Bildern war eine weiße Rauchwolke über dem Gebäudekomplex zu sehen, das von dem schweren Erdbeben gestern beschädigt worden war.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 9:31:00 AM CET
Explosion rocks quake-hit Japanese nuke plant
An explosion was heard and smoke was seen at a quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant on Saturday, officials said.
Several workers were injured by the blast at Fukushima Unit 1, NHK reported. A trail of white smoke was seen at the site, The Associated Press reported.
Japan earlier warned of a meltdown after the nuclear reactor was damaged when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast coast.
Experts said any threat of widespread radiation leaks would be contained as long as the reactor's outer container is intact.
Authorities have been scrambling to reduce pressure at two nuclear power plants in Fukushima, 150 miles north of Tokyo, damaged by Friday's devastating quake .
msn.com nytimes.com Live blog: Japan earthquake [aljazeera.net] Plant Specific Data Fukushima Daiichi Unit #1 (439 MWe)
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Topic: WEB - on March 12, 2011 at 8:51:00 AM CET
Internet-Abschaltung: Libyen hat von Ägypten gelernt
Libyen ist, wie vor einigen Wochen Ägypten, seit Tagen vom Internet abgeschottet. Doch hat dies während der laufenden Aufstände in dem arabischen Land international viel weniger Aufsehen erregt. Die libyschen Internet-Abschalter haben aus dem Fall Ägypten gelernt. Auch die technischen Maßnahmen unterscheiden sich grundsätzlich. Wie Renesys erläutert, ist Libyen formal gesehen eigentlich nicht offline, aber kaum etwas funktioniert noch. Die libysche Vorgehensweise war, Zufall oder nicht, wesentlich "geschickter". Obwohl seit einer Woche fast nichts mehr geht, ist das gewaltige Medienecho wie im Falle Ägyptens ausgeblieben.
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