FOODS TO PROTECT AGAINST RADIATION

Simple foods provide protection against radiation exposure

"Sulfur-containing antioxidants found in ... broccoli, kale, cabbage, and garlic have been found to provide protection against radiation exposure through their detoxifying properties.

"Pectin in fruits has also been shown to reduce levels of the radioactive substance Cs-137...

"A study published in Russia ... used concentrates of dietary fiber from lemon peel and beet root among other plants and found that the fiber did have radioprotective properties. The authors concluded that concentrated dietary fiber can be used ... to accelerate the elimination of nuclides or radioactive elements."

"The Swedish Government monitored the radiation level of foods following the Chernobyl disaster. They found that most animal based foods including meat, dairy, and fish had higher levels of radioactive substances than fruits, vegetables, grains, and potatoes."



Various foods may help guard against radiation (ESSENCETIAL LIFE: RADIATION Protection Foods etc / Nuclear Radiation Protection with Nutrition The No Diet Blog)

Beetroot

Rosemary

If your body lacks calcium, potassium and other nutrients, it will more readily absorb the radioactive elements, so eat plenty of the following:

Bananas, sunflower seeds, pumpkins seeds, green leafy veg, black beans, apricots, avocados, brussel sprouts, dates, figs, potatoes, prunes, raisins, tomatoes, mint, dandelion, celery, carrots

Black Strap Molasses, Apple Cider Vinegar

Vitamin B3 (Niacin / Nicotinic Acid)

Seaweeds, shellfish, and butter (contain Iodine)

Green tea, eggs, tumeric, ginger.

AVOID taking too much of any of the above. Taking a lot of beetroot juice, for example, can make your urine turn red!

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FUKUSHIMA FALSE FLAG

From http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/

Webre and Moret ... discuss the likelihood that Fukushima was a false flag.

"Among the objectives of the controllers of the Fukushima quake/nuke false flag operation on Japan were the crippling of Japan and the rendering of at least 1/3 of Japan radioactive in order to cripple the Japan détente with China..."

Michael Cohen (allnewsweb.com):

"UFO sightings and alien interest in both earthquakes and nuclear plants have been documented for years.

"This publication has reported extensively on the intense, if not unprecedented , UFO activity in Japan before, during and after both the earthquake and the tsunami. So it comes as no surprise that a number of UFO sightings as well as film evidence of alien activity around the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant have come to light."

Full details here: filling the gap

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NUCLEAR JAPAN

In Japan, plutonium is created as a by-product of the nuclear energy industry.

In 1995, Japan was reported to have 4.7 tons of plutonium, enough for around 700 nuclear warheads.

Japan has a uranium enrichment plant which could be used to make highly enriched uranium suitable for weapon use.

Japan has developed the M-V three-stage solid fuel rocket, similar in design to the U.S. LGM-118A Peacekeeper ICBM, which could serve as a delivery vehicle for nuclear weapons. (Japanese nuclear weapon program - Wikipedia)

Note the following:

(1) Secret Weapons Program Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plants?

(2) "Like Israel, Japan is a "secret" nuclear power."


Japan has raised the severity level of its Fukushima nuclear crisis to the maximum seven.

This is the same level as Chernobyl. (Japan raises nuclear crisis to same level as Chernobyl)

The 2009 report, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment", published by the New York Academy of Sciences, estimates the number of deaths attributable to the Chernobyl meltdown at about 980,000. (Nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation)

FT guide to radiation

To measure radiation, scientists use the unit known as the sievert (Sv) – divided into thousandths (millisieverts or mSv) and millionths (microsieverts or µSv).

The figures below show typical exposure levels and their effects:

2 mSv per year - typical background exposure from the environment (actual level depends on altitude, natural radioactivity of local rocks, etc)

2.4 mSv per year - average dose to US nuclear industry workers

9 mSv per year - exposure to airline crew flying regularly between New York and Tokyo

20 mSv per year - current limit (averaged) for nuclear industry employees and uranium miners

100 mSv per year - lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident

(The US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe.)

1000 mSv (1 sievert) cumulative - estimated to cause a fatal cancer many years later in 5 out of every 100 people exposed to it

1,000 mSv (1 sievert) single dose - temporary radiation sickness - not fatal

5,000 mSv (5 sieverts) single dose - fatal within a month to half of those who receive it

10,000 mSv (10 sieverts) single dose - fatal within weeks

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Worldwide Spread of Radio-Active Material from Japan

Chernobyl victims photo from: http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog.../chernobyl.jpg

Model of global distribution of radio-active emissions from Fukushima


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Workers trying to pump radioactive water from Japan reactors

Japanese engineers were frantically attempting on Saturday to pump out puddles of radioactive water at the earthquake-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant after it injured three workers and delayed efforts to cool reactors to safe levels.


Underscoring growing international qualms about nuclear power raised by the killer earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan two weeks ago, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was time to reassess the international atomic safety regime.



Radioactive water has been found in buildings of three of the six reactors at the power complex 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo. On Thursday, three workers sustained burns at reactor No. 3 after being exposed to radiation levels 10,000 times higher than usually found in a reactor.


"Bailing out accumulated water from the turbine housing units before radiation levels rise further is becoming very important," said Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency senior official Hidehiko Nishiyama.


The 9.0 magnitude quake and giant waves on March 11 left more than 10,000 people dead and 17,000 missing.


Despite such a shocking toll, much attention since the disaster has been on the possibility of a catastrophic meltdown at Fukushima.


With elevated radiation levels around the plant triggering fears across the nation, storage of the contaminated water has to be handled carefully.


"We are working out ways of safely bailing out the water so that it does not get out into the environment, and we are making preparations," Nishiyama said.


He initially said the high radiation reading meant there could be damage to the reactor, but he later said it could be from venting operations to release pressure or water leakage from pipes or valves.


"There is no data suggesting a crack," he said.


Nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday there had not been much change in the crisis over the previous 24 hours.


"Some positive trends are continuing but there remain areas of uncertainty that are of serious concern," agency official Graham Andrew said in Vienna, adding the high radiation could be coming from steam.


On Friday, Nishiyama chided plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) for not following safety procedures inside the turbine building. Local media also criticized TEPCO, which has a poor safety record.


"The people on the spot have a strong sense of mission and may be trying to rush," the Nikkei business paper said. "But if the work is done hastily, it puts lives at risk and in the end, will delay the repairs. This kind of accident ought to have been avoidable by proceeding with the work cautiously."


Source; Reuters

THE BAD GUYS AND NUMBERS

Website for this image globalrumblings.blogspot.com

Some events linked to the number eleven:

11 November 1918 - on the 11th hour, World War I ended (11/11/18)

11 September 1941 - the construction of the Pentagon began.

11 September 1973 - The CIA put Pinochet into power in Chile.

11 September 1990 - Bush gave his State of the Union Address about the New World Order.

11 September 2001 - The World Trade Centre attacks took place.

11 March 2004 - The Madrid terror attacks.

11 February 2011 - Mubarak stepped down.

11 march 2011 - The Earthquake and tsunami hit Japan

Japan Earthquake 11 - 3 - 11

On 9 11 (9 November 1989) the Berlin Wall came down, an event organised by the CIA and its communist counterparts.

911 days after 9/11/01 the Madrid Bombings took place.

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Bush's invasion of Iraq began on 19 March 2003.

Obama's invasion of Libya began on 19 March 2011.

8 Years To The Day

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President Kennedy was assassinated in the 11th month, on the 22nd day, and on the 33rd parallel.

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JAPAN EARTHQUAKE CAUSED BY US MILITARY?

A13 drew our attention to the article entitled:

"HAARP Magnetometer data shows the Japan earthquake was induced.":

The United States Air Force and Navy has provided a visual insight into what caused the 9.0 magnitude off of Japan on March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC.

The image above was downloaded from the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) website.

It is a time-frequency spectrogram, which shows the frequency content of signals recorded by the HAARP Induction Magnetometer.

This instrument, provided by the University of Tokyo, measures temporal variations in the geomagnetic field (Earth’s magnetosphere) in the ULF (ultra-low frequency) range of 0-5 Hz.

Notions have been added to the image to show you what was happening the day the Japan earthquake and tsunami struck.

By looking at the accompanying HAARP spectrum chart above you can see when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck – red line drawn vertically – and what was happening before and after the earthquake.

What you can also see is a constant ULF frequency of 2.5 Hz being recorded by the magnetometer.

The ULF 2.5 Hz frequency is evidence of an induced earthquake.

The chart recorded this constant before, during and after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck.

On March 11, 2011 the 2.5 Hz ULF frequency was being emitted and recorded from 0:00 hours to about 10:00 hours – or for 10 hours.

We know for a fact that the Japan earthquake lasted only a few minutes so why was the earthquake signature frequency (2.5 Hz) being recorded for 10 hours on the morning of March 11, 2011?

Because a HAARP phased array antenna system was broadcasting (transmitting) the 2.5Hz ULF frequency and it triggered the Japan earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

If you go to HAARP’s official website you can see for yourself that the 2.5 Hz ULF frequency wasn’t only being broadcated for 10 hours, it was constantly being broadcasted for 2 days prior to the earthquake.

Broadcasting began on March 8, 2011, just before midnight as you can see on HAARP’s website page – http://maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?20110308.

Click on the Next Day link to see that the earthquake inducing 2.5 Hz ULF frequency was being broadcasted for the entire days of March 9, 2011 and March 10, 2011.

Even though the signature frequency of an earthquake was shown throughout March 9 and March 10 there were no constant earthquakes occurring off the east coast of Japan.



What is the significance of a 2.5 Hz ULF broadcast?

The natural resonance of an earthquake is 2.5 Hz.

Scientists working for the United States military discovered this using the phased array antennas at the HAARP facility in Alaska.

HAARP’s own charts suggests that earthquakes occurred constantly for 3 days.

We know for a fact that they haven’t.

The HAARP magnetometer data provides proof that the Japan earthquake was not a naturally occurring quake – it was triggered.

This data shows us that a HAARP military installation was broadcasting the known earthquake signature frequency in order to trigger a major earthquake.

The broadcast was most likely being transmitted from a floating HAARP system like the floating Sea-Based X-Band Radar platform that can be moved anywhere in the Pacific or Atlantic ocean under the protection of a carrier strike group – like the USS Ronald Regan.

Where was the USS Ronald Reagan on the morning of March 11, 2011?

According to a Stars & Stripes March 9, 2011 report – Reagan carrier group steams toward South Korea to join exercise.


MORE HERE: HAARP Magnetometer data shows Japan earthquake was induced ...

AND HERE: I Understand and I wish to Continue: A Worm IN The Works..

NUCLEAR STUFF IS DANGEROUS

Nuclear stuff is dangerous. (URANIUM IN THE UK, USA AND ELSEWHERE )

A graphic showing the path of the Japanese nuclear plume ...

Contamination with nuclear material has been going on for years - URANIUM IN THE UK, USA AND ELSEWHERE



Iraq

Some people think Chernobyl was the result of Sabotage

"Articles about the possibility that Chernobyl 'accident' was staged by foreign secret service agencies started to emerge in the Russian press (Sovietskaya Rossiya, June 16, 1992, April 25, 1996, Za Ruskoe Delo 6, 38, 1996, Trud, April 26, 1995) and elsewhere, recently reappearing on Pravda.ru (February, 2004) .

"These allegations were based on observations that, under scrutiny:

"It is unlikely that the sequence of events that led to the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor could have been accidental"

"Technicians who disconnected the safety mechanisms of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,Alexandrov, Feinberg, Sagdeev, Zaslavsky,are now living in comfort abroad."

Iran says its nuclear programme was hit by sabotage

"Conspiracy theory: ... set off a global disaster that will upset/reset the world economy.

"Since the economy is essentially one big Ponzi scheme, blaming the scheme's collapse on a 'causeless' catastrophic event like this poses the only way to preempt the real reason: because we've run out of money to prop up the pyramid.

"The execution of such a disaster is highly feasible: setting off an explosion in a building is beyond simple. As for the earthquake, they could have waited for it, or used HAARP..." (DAE think that Japan's nuclear plants were blown up on purpose to ... )

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Japan dumps water on stricken reactors

Military helicopters in Japan have dumped water on reactors at the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in an effort to cool down a spent fuel storage pool, local media said.


Two CH-47 helicopters scooped up seawater and released it over the reactors on Thursday while another helicopter checked radiation levels in the air.


The plant, 220km north of Tokyo, has been hit by several explosions after a devastating earthquake and tsunami last Friday.


Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas, reporting from Osaka, said "four flights were made and of those water-drops by the helicopters, only one hit its target". The effort has since been abandoned, he said.


"Given that more than a hundred would be required to hit dead-on to fill the reactors with enough water to cool the rods, it is – forgive the phrase – a bit of drop in the ocean at the moment," our correspondent said.


The mission was part of efforts to cool the storage pools at the number 3 and number 4 reactors. The cooling systems at both reactors are not functioning, raising fears that spent fuel rods could melt and release radioactive material outside the building.


Police water cannons were also set to support the effort in addition to equipment already in use over recent days at the plant.


Toshimi Kitazawa, the defence minister, said an additional 11 military vehicles would be deployed for efforts to help cool the reactors, while pumps supplied by the US armed forces were also being transferred.


Nuclear safety


The government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the top priority should be pouring water into the fuel-rod pools at reactors 3 and 4, which may be boiling and are not fully covered by roofs that would reduce radiation leaks.



An official at plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the pool at the number-four reactor "seemed to have water" on Wednesday, based on aerial observation carried out by the military helicopters.


The nuclear agency said two radioactive substances, cesium and radioactive iodine, have been detected near the Fukushima number 1 reactor.


The agency said this indicates that some of the metal containers of uranium fuel may have started melting. The substances are produced by fuel fission, NHK, Japan's broadcaster said.


Naoto Sekimura, a University of Tokyo professor, told NHK that only a small part of the fuel may have melted and leaked outside.


He called on residents near the power station to stay calm, saying that most of the fuel remains inside the reactor, which has stopped operation and is being cooled.


Some 70 workers have been using pumps to pour seawater to cool reactors at the plant, according to media reports, using electricity from borrowed mobile generators.


Paul Carroll, a programme director at Ploughshares, an international nuclear security foundation, told Al Jazeera that the engineers at the plant are doing heroic work.


"In order to be adequately protected from the radiation they would need to have essentially leaded shielding. If that is what they are equipped with, it would make it extremely difficult for them to actually move around.


"I suspect that these are almost – I hate to say it – suicide missions. These workers have signed up for a mission that puts themselves behind their countrymen," Carroll said.


Imad Khadduri, a nuclear scientist based in Qatar, told Al Jazeera that Japanese authorities are "thinking of bringing in retired workers to the plant because they have a short lifetime left".


"People who are exposed to such high levels of radiation can only do that for a certain period before developing radiation sickness and will have to be replaced," Khadduri added.


Meanwhile, the official death toll from last Friday's twin disasters has risen to 5,198, Japanese police has confirmed, with relief efforts being hampered by adverse weather conditions in the north of Japan.


The 9.0-magnitude quake - the biggest in Japan's history - triggered a massive tsunami that decimated large tracts of the country's northeastern coastline.

Radiation leak fears at Japan plant - Third explosion hits Fukushima nuclear plant !

A radiation leak is feared after Japan's Nuclear Safety Agency reported a third explosion at Unit 2 of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant in the country's northeast.



Watch Video of Nuclear plant explosion


Shinji Kinjo, an agency spokesman, said that "a leak of nuclear material is feared", after the explosion was heard at 6:10am local time (21:10 GMT) on Tuesday.


The troubles at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant began when a massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan's northeast on Friday knocked out power, crippling cooling systems needed to keep nuclear fuel from melting down.



Radiation levels measured at the front gate of the plant jumped following the explosion, Kinjo said.


Naoto Kan, the Japan prime minister, warned people within 30km of the Fukushima plant to stay indoors.


Low-level radioactive wind from the reactor could reach Tokyo, the Japanese capital, within 10 hours, based on current winds, the French embassy said in a statement on its Japanese-language website on Tuesday.


Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the plant's operator, said the explosion occurred near the suppression pool in the reactor's containment vessel. The pool was later found to have a defect.


TEPCO said some employees of the power plant were temporarily evacuated following Tuesday's explosion.


An agency spokesman, Shigekazu Omukai, said the nuclear core of Unit 2 was not damaged in the explosion. But the agency said it suspects the bottom of the container that surrounds the generator's nuclear core might have been damaged.


Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Ichinoseki, in northeast Japan, said: "People didn't know what was happening and they wonder what they can do. Some say that they can't get out due to lack of fuel.


"We know that there was a sound of explosion at Unit 2, where there are significant numbers of fuel rods submerged in water.


"The government is sticking to the line that radiation is within safety levels, but it is a fast-changing situation."

Second blast at Japan nuclear plant - 11 Workers Injured !

Watch Video of Explosion


A second explosion rocked Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, sending a plume of smoke into the air and touching off fresh concerns of radioactive leak in the quake and tsunami-hit country.


The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday the reactor has not been damaged.


Tokyo Electric Power Co [TEPCO], the plant operator, in a press release said, it was believed to be a hydrogen explosion at the plant's No.3 reactor and that 11 workers were injured. The first explosion happened at the same plant on Saturday, at the reactor No. 1.


TEPCO said that the impact of radioactive materials to the outside environment are presently under investigation.


Yukio Edano, Japan's chief cabinet secretary said that a large-scale radiation leak was unlikely. Edano said the reactor's inner containment vessel holding the nuclear fuel rods was intact, allaying some fears of the risk to the environment.


Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi said the cooling system at reactor No. 2 has also failed, leading to a build-up of pressure in the containment vessel. That is the  same problem units one and three encountered before they exploded.


Meanwhile, at Fukushima plant, the work to cool the reactors with a mixture of seawater and boric acid continues – an untested method, underscoring the desperate nature of the situation.



'No possibility of a Chernobyl'


Japan's nuclear safety agency said there is "absolutely no possibility of a Chernobyl" style accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, Koichiro Genba, the national strategy minister said, as quoted by Jiji Press.



The minister made the comment citing the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency at a meeting of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.


Meanwhile, a US aircraft carrier deployed for relief efforts has repositioned after detecting low-level radiation from a malfunctioning nuclear power plants, a US statement has said.


People around the area, already ravaged by earthquake and tsunami, are worried at the prospects of a nuclear radiation.


"I am due to give birth soon, I want to know exactly what is going on at the nuclear plant. I am scared," said a woman.


Twenty people have tested positive for radiation exposure and that number looks likely to rise.

Explosion at Japan nuclear plant reactor 3 in Fukushima !

A second explosion has hit the nuclear plant in Japan that was damaged in Friday's earthquake, but officials said it had resisted the blast.


TV footage showed smoke rising from Fukushima plant's reactor 3, a day after an explosion hit reactor 1. Japan's nuclear safety agency said the blast was believed to have been caused by the build-up of hydrogen.


Government officials said the reactor core was still intact as they tried allay fears of a radioactive leak. Technicians have been battling to cool three reactors at the Fukushima 1 plant since Friday, when the quake and tsunami combined to knock out the cooling system.


Currently over 2000 deaths confirmed and likely to rise to 10,000 according to the reports we are getting.

Drastic Drop in Japan's stock market

Capital injection pledged on first business day since quake and tsunami hit northeast and stoked nuclear disaster fears.



Three days after a devastating earthquake hit Japan, the stock market in Tokyo has reopened - and its performance shows just how big the damage to the country's economy could be.


Share prices dropped sharply by more than five per cent within the first hour of trading on Monday. Moving quickly to try to keep financial markets stable, the Bank of Japan said it will inject $85bn into the money market to try to bring some stability.


The humanitarian crisis is deepening too, with thousands of people still missing as a result of Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resultant tsunami.


On the brighter side, foreign aid has begun arriving. A US naval ship is being used to help send out supplies and an aircraft carrier is also on its way to help.


But millions remain without electricity, and there are growing fears about the safety of the Fukushima nuclear plant where a state of emergency is in force.


All this leaves Japan facing its worst crisis since the second world war, according to the country's prime minister, Naoto Kan.





For their part, nuclear plant engineers were frantically working to keep temperatures down in a series of reactors, as the possibility of a nuclear disaster threatened to complicate matters.


Authorities declared a state of emergency at a nuclear facility in the town of Onagawa on Sunday after excessive radiation levels were recorded there, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency said.


Engineers are facing fears of a partial meltdown in two reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the wake of Friday's earthquake and tsunami that are believed to have killed thousands of people.


Yukio Edano, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, said on Sunday that a partial meltdown in Unit 3 at the Fukushima facility was "highly possible".


"At the risk of raising further public concern, we cannot rule out the possibility of an explosion," Edano said. "If there is an explosion, however, there would be no significant impact on human health.


"Because it's inside the reactor, we cannot directly check it but we are taking measures on the assumption of the possible partial meltdown."


About 170,000 people have been ordered to evacuate the area covering a radius of 20km around the Fukushima plant.


Thousands of people have been taken to emergency shelters along the northeastern coast as strong aftershocks continue to shake Japan's main island.


"As to Friday's earthquake and tsunami and the current situation of the power plants in Fukushima, in the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan in that period," Kan said in a televised address to the nation," Kan, the prime minister, said in a televised address.


He also said Japan is at risk of large-scale power outages and must save energy after the earthquake shut down some atomic power plants.

Tsunami-hit Japan - At least 427 are being killed - Confirmed but likely to rise over 1000 !

Twin disasters overwhelm Japan - Video - All Jazeera


At least 427 are confirmed to have been killed after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Japan, triggering a devastating 10-metre-high tsunami along parts of the country's northeastern coastline and triggered an emergency at two nuclear power plants as well.


Japanese media said on Saturday the death toll was expected to exceed 1000, most of whom appeared to have drowned by churning waters.


"The damage is so enormous that it will take us much time to gather data," a Japanese official at the national police agency said.


The towering wall of water, generated by the 8.9 magnitude earthquake, pulverised the northeastern city of Sendai, where police on Friday reportedly said that 200-300 bodies had been found on the coast. 


The wave of black water sent shipping containers, cars and debris crashing through the streets of Sendai and across open farmland, while a tidal wave of debris-littered mud destroyed everything in its path.


The northeastern Japanese city of Kesennuma, with a population of 74,000, was hit by widespread fires and one-third of the city was under water, according to Jiji news agency .


Radiation fears - Reactor cooling systems had failed !
- but no immediate health hazard -




Japanese authorities scrambled on Saturday to prevent nuclear accidents at two atomic plants where Japanese authorities scrambled on Saturday to prevent nuclear accidents at two atomic plants where reactor cooling systems failed, as it evacuated tens of thousands of residents.


Radiation 1,000 times above normal was detected in the control room of one plant, although authorities said levels outside the facility's gates were only eight times above normal, spelling "no immediate health hazard".


The two nuclear plants affected are the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 plants, both located about 250 kilometres  northeast of greater Tokyo.


A total of 45,000 people living within a 10-kilometre radius of the No. 1 plant were told to evacuate -- raising the number from the fewer than 6,000 people within three kilometres told to leave Friday.


Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan early on Saturday morning left on a helicopter ride to Fukushima to assess the situation at the plants operated by Tokyo Electric Power, and at other areas in the disaster zone.


When Friday's massive quake hit, the plants immediately shut down, along with others in quake-hit parts of Japan, as they are designed to do -- but the No. 1 plant's cooling system failed, the government said.


When reactors shut down, cooling systems must kick in to bring down the very high temperatures. These systems are powered by either the external electricity grid, backup generators or batteries.


This is key to prevent a "nuclear meltdown" and radioactive release.Japan's network of advanced nuclear power plants are designed to shut down as soon as the earth shakes in one of the world's most quake-prone countries, though a fire broke out in the turbine building of another nuclear plant in Onagawa., as it evacuated tens of thousands of residents.


Radiation 1,000 times above normal was detected in the control room of one plant, although authorities said levels outside the facility's gates were only eight times above normal, spelling "no immediate health hazard".


The two nuclear plants affected are the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 plants, both located about 250 kilometres  northeast of greater Tokyo.


A total of 45,000 people living within a 10-kilometre radius of the No. 1 plant were told to evacuate -- raising the number from the fewer than 6,000 people within three kilometres told to leave Friday.


Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan early on Saturday morning left on a helicopter ride to Fukushima to assess the situation at the plants operated by Tokyo Electric Power, and at other areas in the disaster zone.


When Friday's massive quake hit, the plants immediately shut down, along with others in quake-hit parts of Japan, as they are designed to do -- but the No. 1 plant's cooling system failed, the government said.


When reactors shut down, cooling systems must kick in to bring down the very high temperatures. These systems are powered by either the external electricity grid, backup generators or batteries.


This is key to prevent a "nuclear meltdown" and radioactive release.Japan's network of advanced nuclear power plants are designed to shut down as soon as the earth shakes in one of the world's most quake-prone countries, though a fire broke out in the turbine building of another nuclear plant in Onagawa.

26 people have died UP TO NOW from the MASSIVE tsunami in Japan !

Up to 26 people are reported to have been killed after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Japan, triggering a 10-metre-high tsunami along parts of the country's northeastern coastline.


The massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Friday, sweeping away cars, boats, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control.Japan's NHK television reported many injuries and showed pictures of major tsunami damage in the north, with buildings being inundated by waves of water in Onahama city in Fukushima prefecture.



Japan's meteorological agency said 26 people have been confirmed dead in the aftermath of the quake and tsunami, and 44 fires have broken out across the country.


The death toll included three people who were reportedly crushed to death when their houses collapsed in Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of the capital, Tokyo.News of the death toll came amid a warning that another strong quake could be imminent on the northeast Honshu island, Japan's main island.


Japan's prime minister addressed the nation after the quake, saying major damage had been done but that help is on the way.

Massive 8.9 quake, tsunamis hits Coastal Region of Japan !

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan on Friday, triggering tsunamis and sending a massive body of water filled with debris that included boats and houses inching toward highways.


The epicenter was 373 kilometers (231 miles) away from the capital, Tokyo, the United States Geological Survey said. But residents there felt the tremors.


The quake rattled buildings and toppled cars off bridges and into waters underneath. Waves of debris flowed like lava across farmland, pushing boats, houses and trailers toward highways.


Tsunami warnings issued for other countries


In Tokyo, crowds gathered in the streets and tried to reach relatives via cell phone.


Scenes inside office buildings showed papers strewn all over the floor and people clinging onto seats and desks.


Such a large earthquake at such a shallow depth creates a lot of energy, said Shenza Chen of the U.S. Geological Survey.


It caused a power outage in about 4 million homes in Tokyo and surrounding areas.
A tsunami in the Pacific was moving closer to other shorelines in other countries, said CNN meteorologist Ivan Cabrera.


It triggered tsunami warnings for various countries, including Japan and Russia, the National Weather Service said.


"Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis potentially dangerous to coasts outside the source region," it said.


"Based on all available data a tsunami may have been generated by this earthquake that could be destructive on coastal areas even far from the epicenter."


The quake was the latest in a series in the region this week.


Early Thursday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off the coast of Honshu.


A day earlier, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off of Honshu, the country's meteorological agency said.


The largest recorded quake took place in Chile on May 22, 1960, with a magnitude of 9.5, the USGS said.


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