Japan earthquake
Live updates of developments after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, selected by Reuters.com editors and readers. To see updates from Reuters only, click "Options" and turn off comments.
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A Japanese man covers his face as he walks through a destroyed residential area of tsunami-hit Otsuchi March 14, 2011. In the town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, 12,000 out of a population of 15,000 have disappeared following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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Kyodo News: FLASH: Fuel rods at No. 2 reactor of Fukushima No. 1 nuke plant fully exposed (19:58) english.kyodonews.jp -
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The operator of Fukushima Daiichi's number 2 reactor says water levels are nearly empty.
Jiji is reporting that the fuel rods have been left fully exposed at the comlpex's number 2 reactor as levels of water coolant have fallen.
If the fuel rods were to melt down, the risk of damage to the reactor vessel would be greater, increasing the risk of a radioactive leak. -
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@GWriter - There is a new solar technology currently approved and readying construction which negates the issue of night. It essentially stores the energy in "molten salt" and is used to heat water as necessary. It's not a panacea, but there are technologies out now and down the road which will blow your mind.
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If we internalize all the social and environmental and future costs, a different valuation occurs and nuclear energy is a far less attractive option. We no longer can use old economic costing models to make critical decisions. This is simply a failure of the imagination and the entrenchment of orthodoxy.
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The site director of the Fukushima plant should just tell the PM of japan that the plant is dead zone and ALL nuclear reactors there should be filled with Sea Water etc... Its not worth the risk anymore its not like they will repair them they are old and close to being shut down.
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Pumping seawater into reactors 'act of desperation'... www.channelnewsasia.com
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Anyone trying to follow Japanese-language news reports, but struggling with some of the event-specific vocabulary, this website has put together a vocab list: www.japannewbie.com
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New York Daily News reporting that 17 US navy crew members have radioactive contamination. More here www.nydailynews.com
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@Ponch - Only if they can cover the core. Right now the exposed core is creating the most possible pressure due to heat. The best option they have is to open the release valves wide and hope that relieves enough pressure to allow the water in. I suspect the reactor got to a point where the pressure of their pumps could not overcome the pressure created by continued steam creation/water loss.
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Officers look at a Mitsubishi F-2 fighter aircraft of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force which was swept by the tsunami into a building at Matsushima base in Higashimatsushima, Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the area, March 14, 2011. REUTERS/Kyodo
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