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Gabi reports:

On 7 May, 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant be shut down in light of the fact that an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or higher is estimated 87% likely to hit the area within the next 30 years.

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Hiraizumi, which was damaged during the earthquake, has become a UNESCO world heriage site now !
Hiraizumi features Buddhist temples and gardens built by the 12th-century Oshu Fujiwara clan.
The Ogasawara Islands are about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo are also added to the list of UNESCO world heriage sites.

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Bulletins from NHK Online

source : www3.nhk.or.jp

Saturday, May 07, 2011 03:14
Government to assist auto parts makers
The Development Bank of Japan is planning to work with an auto parts organization to extend funding to its members. The bank wants to help manufacturers get back on their feet after the natural disaster in March.
Many parts makers were damaged in the quake, and have had difficulty rebuilding their businesses. Automakers have had to reduce output due to supply chain problems and production is not expected to recover before autumn.
The government-affiliated bank is planning to set up a joint fund with the Japan Auto Parts Industries Association, which has 440 member firms. The fund will help them rebuild their b


Saturday, May 07, 2011 14:52
TEPCO hopes workers enter building for cooling
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant expects that workers can enter the No. 1 reactor building on Sunday to step up efforts to restore the cooling system there.
A new filtering system that Tokyo Electric Power Company installed on Thursday continues to draw air from the No. 1 reactor building to remove highly radioactive substances and send it back into the building.
TEPCO says the level of radioactive cesium in the air began to drop on Friday morning, and that it fell to about one-tenth the target level within one day.
The utility firm says it will keep operating the ventilation system on Saturday to lower the radiation level as much as possible.
The company hopes that the workers can enter the building on Sunday to install a water level monitoring device.
The workers are also expected to check piping inside the building as preparation for creating a cooling water recycling system in the reactor.


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Japan Times :

Tepco starts flooding No. 1 reactor vessel
Tepco increases the water being pumped into the No. 1 reactor at the crippled Fukushima power plant to submerge its damaged fuel and provide a stabler way of cooling it.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110507a1.html

Kan requests full closure of Hamaoka power plant
Prime Minister Naoto Kan instructs a utility to shut down a nuclear power plant in central Honshu because a major quake or tsunami is widely expected to hit the region.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110507a2.html

DPJ crisis exec found playing golf
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110507a6.html

In search of a nuclear disposal site
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110507f1.html

Survivors comforted by retrieved family photos
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110507f3.html


Worries about Hamaoka plant
...Chubu president Akihisa Mizuno says that the plant is sufficiently safe. One cannot but see he is overconfident. One question is whether the bulwark can withstand a tsunami.

Also a tsunami could hit the plant from two rivers flowing on either side of it. The fact remains that the Hamaoka plant, which has five reactors, sits above a fault that could cause a major quake.
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20110507a1.html

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