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Japan Expects to End Nuclear Crisis in Nine Months
2011-04-18
[Tolo News] Operator of Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear plant has expected to cool the reactors in nine months amid Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edmund Randolph ...
's visit to the country.

At a presser on Sunday chairman of TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co) said they need nine months to bring the reactors to a cold shutdown in nine months. But officials in Tokyo are doubtful about the timetable.

"We sincerely apologise for causing troubles," BBC quoted Tsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of TEPCO, as saying. "We are doing our utmost to prevent the crisis from further worsening."

He said after nine months people would be able to return to the area and restart their life the same as before.

At the same time the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton landed in Tokyo to announce Washington's support to Japan.

Sending 20,000 troops to help Japan in rubble clearance and rescue efforts and as well as many other ships and planes the United States has hunted hearts and minds in Japan.

Before the crisis relations between the two nations went souring after a dispute on US military bastions in southern Japan.

On March 11 Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant hit by a strong tsunami triggered by a huge quake.

The incident led to the death of some 14,000 people while hundreds of thousands of others are still missing.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Japan's ranking in the TOP-TIER = TOP FIVE OF MAJOR WORLD ECONOMIES, + also its very sovereignty + national existence, is at risk as a consequence of the TOHOKU/SENDAI EVENT INCLUD THE [Multi-Region affecting]FUKUSHIMA CRISIS.

Perhaps a little good news for Nippon -not much but a little ...

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM [post-Tohoku/Sendai Event]> PLA ANNOUNCES "END TO WAR" [MilPol = Geopol hostility] BETWEEN MAINLAND CHINA + JAPAN.

Pragmatically, why should Beijing argue wid BFF Russia over strategic access thru the Russ-controlled, now Russ-sovereign SOUTH KURILS = FORMER PRE-WW2/1945 JAPANESE "NORTHERN TERRITORIES" iff it can get seriously Econ, Enviro, + Geopol troubled Japan on China's side.

AIR-NAVAL PORTS + BASE RIGHTS IN MAINLAND JAPAN + OKINAWA [ancient "Ryukyu Kingdom" Chin vassal state], Daoyus = Senkakus, perhaps even SINO-JAPAN-US TRILATERAL COOP ON TAIWAN???

MSM-NET = CHINA HAS THE $$$ NOW, NOT THE USA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-19 00:00  

#8  Japan's ranking in the TOP-TIER = TOP FIVE OF MAJOR WORLD ECONOMIES, + also its very sovereignty + national existence, is at risk as a consequence of the TOHOKU/SENDAI EVENT INCLUD THE [Multi-Region affecting]FUKUSHIMA CRISIS.

Perhaps a little good news for Nippon -not much but a little ...

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM [post-Tohoku/Sendai Event]> PLA ANNOUNCES "END TO WAR" [MilPol = Geopol hostility] BETWEEN MAINLAND CHINA + JAPAN.

Pragmatically, why should Beijing argue wid BFF Russia over strategic access thru the Russ-controlled, now Russ-sovereign SOUTH KURILS = FORMER PRE-WW2/1945 JAPANESE "NORTHERN TERRITORIES" iff it can get seriously Econ, Enviro, + Geopol troubled Japan on China's side.

AIR-NAVAL PORTS + BASE RIGHTS IN MAINLAND JAPAN + OKINAWA [ancient "Ryukyu Kingdom" Chin vassal state], Daoyus = Senkakus, perhaps even SINO-JAPAN-US TRILATERAL COOP ON TAIWAN???

MSM-NET = CHINA HAS THE $$$ NOW, NOT THE USA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-18 23:59  

#7  CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > JAPANESE TOLD BY GOVT. TO EAT [safe?]RADIOACTIVE VEGETABLES | PLEASE EAT FUKUSHIMA VEGGIES, JAPAN TELLS RADIATION-WEARY NATION.

PCorrect Top Govt. Leaders + other Tokyo Diet/Parliament-critters = Nippon Politicos rushing to be first in line to sample.

Yokay, I'll say it - D *** NG IT, IFF AMERICA = AMERIKA IS WONDERING WHY OUR FUTURE DESCENDANTS LOOK LIKE "GREY" + "BLUE" SPACE ALIENS FROM ROSWELL, WELL WONDER NO MORE!

D *** NGED TIME-SPACE SPACE-TEENS + THEIR SOLYENT LIGHTSPEED BUGGIES!

* WMF > JAPAN TO BUILD "ALTERNATE/VICE" CAPITAL CITY IN CASE TOKYO IS DESTROYED BY MAJOR NATURAL DISASTER. POST-DISASTER CONTINUATION OF MAIN GOVT. FUNCTIONS. A MAG7.3-OR-HIGHER MAJOR EARTHQUAKE IN TOKYO BAY COULD KILL UP TO 1.1 MILYUHN JAPANESE, DESTROY 850,000 HOMES + GOVT., COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, AND INCUR AN ECON LOSS AS HIGH AS Y$112.0MILYUHN.

* CNN AM > JAPANESE ECONOMY, TOURISM SERIOUSLY DAMAGED BY 03/11/2011 QUAKE-TSUNAMI + FUKUSHIMA CRISIS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-18 23:36  

#6  Wife is from the orient and even trying to translate correctly I often notice her being off some magnitude of 10. It's common enough among her friends too that I think the the oriental press should change their reporting to use scientific notation ... ie 1.925 x 10 to the n...
Posted by: Water Modem   2011-04-18 11:09  

#5  So, the original article is off only by an order of magnitude or so. Just silly zeros.

Tolo News, eh. Grain of / handful of salt applies to these guys I guess.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2011-04-18 10:12  

#4  NHK's summary
Nearly 28,000 people are dead or missing in the March 11th quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan

The National Police Agency says that as of 3PM Monday, 13,858 people have been confirmed dead, including those who were killed in aftershocks on April 7th and 11th.

14,030 are listed as missing. The police agency says, however, that the number does not include people missing in Sendai City, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, as authorities are checking for any overlapping reports.
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Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-04-18 07:10  

#3  "...while hundreds of thousands of others are still missing."

I hadn't noticed that being reported anywhere else. Hundreds of thousands is a lot of people.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2011-04-18 06:32  

#2  ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > {Mainichi News]DATA SHOW TSUNAMI THE KILLER [Drowning], ELDERLY THE MOST VULNERABLE IN DISASTER. Approxi 54.8% of dead in three Perfectures from 03-11 TOHOKU/SENDAI EVENT = Persons aged 65 years or older.

and

* SAME > [Nature.com] ARE LARGER EARTHQUAKES THE SIGN OF THE TIMES.

ARTIC = World rocked by flurry of massive, Tsunami/Tidal Wave-generating MAG8.8-or-higher quakes since 2005, PROB = 63.0%-plus THAT A FUKUSHIMA-STYLE, MAG9.0-OR-HIGHER QUAKE WILL OCCUR AGAIN IN SIX YEARS = YEAR 2017.

WHOA, GUAM TAOTAMONAS "GHOST WRITE" FOR NATURE MAGAZINE - WHO KNEW???

[MADONNA = "ROCK ME, BABY" here].

Guam's "KAMALEN" wave will be agz the island's west coast - nminor in scale + comparison to 2004 + 2011 Fukushima unless you live on-island.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-18 02:34  

#1  Maybe I heard it wrong...

CNN AM > gave me the impression that TEPCO = JAPAN needs roughly three months just to effec lower the radiation to safe levels, then another six months afterwards to cap Fukushima Reax 1-4, THEN NINE MONTHS ADDITIONAL AFTER THE AFORE 3 + 6 MONTHS TO COMPLETELY SHUTDOWN THE PLANT.

IIUC, the new CNN Math is 3 + 6 Months = actually 18 MONTHS???

PRESUMING THAT NOTHING BAD HAPPENS ANEW IN THE INTERIM.

The bad news also for TEPCO + Tokyo is that neither CNN nor even FX believe the nine months only timeline will be enuff.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-18 00:24  

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