Thursday, March 17, 2011

Japan In Crisis -- March 17, 2011



'Please Continue To Live Well': Fukushima Fifty 'On Suicide Mission' To Battle N-Plant Meltdown Send Haunting Messages To Families... As Radioactive Steam Pours From Wrecked Reactor -- Mail Online

* Nuclear workers accept their fate 'like a death sentence'
* Fears for their health as one expert says it is 'perhaps a suicide mission'
* Power will be connected to knocked-out coolant pumping system 'within hours'
* Radioactive steam still billows from reactors and fuel storage pools after helicopter missions
* Police water canons move in to spray overheating fuel rods
* Radioactive plume to hit US west coast tomorrow
* 17,000 British nationals could be evacuated as last-ditch efforts are made to stop nuclear catastrophe
* Foreign Office provides free-of-charge rescue flights from Tokyo
* Rich scramble to book private jets out the country as fleeing passengers pack Tokyo airport

Japan was today rallying behind the anonymous nuclear emergency workers at the stricken Fukushima power plant - as heartbreaking details of their plight emerged.

The 180 workers face soaring radiation levels as they make ever more desperate attempts to stop over-heating reactors and spent fuel rods leaking more radiation into the atmosphere.

Some experts have speculated that they may be engaged in a suicide mission - or at least could suffer serious health problems for the rest of their lives - as helicopters and police riot control trucks are used to dump water on the reactors and exposed nuclear fuel storage pools.

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More News On Japan's Earthquake/Nuclear Disaster

Japan quake: live report -- Yahoo News/AFP
Live Feed: Japan earthquake -- Reuters

Japan dumps water on overheating reactor -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Japanese choppers dump water on stricken reactor -- Yahoo News/AP
Japan battles to cool reactors -- Financial Times
Helicopters douse Japan’s stricken reactor as US warns nationals to evacuate wide area -- Washington Post
Japan races to diminish risk of radiation leaks -- Washington Post
Crisis Continues at Crippled Japanese Nuclear Power Plants -- Voice of America
Japanese Officials at Odds If Water Dumps Helped Crippled Nuclear Plant -- FOX News
Japan Turns to Desperate Measures to Cool Nuclear Reactors -- Voice of America
U.S. Drone Surveying Japan's Damaged Nuclear Complex -- Wall Street Journal

Heartbreaking moment Japanese earthquake survivor holds her dead mother's hand as she says a final goodbye -- The Daily Mail
Sitting silent in their classroom, the 30 children whose parents have not come to collect them after tsunami swept away their town -- The Daily Mail
Hope for missing fades in Japan; elderly hard-hit -- Yahoo News/AP
Mounting Japan crisis sparks exodus of foreigners -- Yahoo News/AFP
Japan earthquake: 'Many people' are leaving Tokyo -- BBC
Japanese stay put for now despite nuclear radiation worries -- Christian Science Monitor
Snow, Hunger Add to Misery in Quake-Stricken Japan -- Voice of America
Japan nuclear: How one Fukushima family is coping -- BBC

US, Japan differ on danger zone, spent fuel risk -- CBS
Japan nuclear crisis: US announces evacuation options -- Christina Science Monitor
U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High;’ Sees Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsening -- New York Times
How the U.S. government is helping Japan -- Washington Post
Japan earthquake: US alarm over nuclear crisis -- BBC
Pentagon preparing for a nuclear worst-case scenario at Fukushima -- Stars And Stripes

Fear of Japan's nuclear crisis far exceeds actual risks, say scientists -- Christian Science Monitor
Japan nuclear crisis: Fukushima 'meltdown' is worrying, but this is no Chernobyl -- Tom Chivers, The Telegraph
In Shadow of Nuclear Disaster, Elderly Worry About the Future -- Krista Mahr, Time Magazine
Japan is truly a disaster on a biblical scale, but are we right to worry about the nuclear angle? -- Michael Hanlon, Daily Mail
The risks exposed: What the damage to the Fukushima plant portends for Japan—and the world -- The Economist
Q+A: Risks at each reactor of Japan's stricken plant explained -- Reuters
Death of Candor From Japan’s Leadership -- Hiroko Tabuchi, Ken Belson and Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times
Emperor comforts Japan in 1st TV talk -- Christopher Johnson, The Washington Times
In Japan, No Time Yet for Grief -- Kazumi Saeki, New York Times

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