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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:07 PM
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Who's helping #Nepal? #Israel is. Interesting statistics on who is helping #Nepal. pic.twitter.com/Xs3JXHMFif”
— Lee Wunsch (@lrwunsch) April 28, 2015
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:39 AM
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#IDF getting ready to go #NepalEarthquake pic.twitter.com/yn1owNxSMf
— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) April 26, 2015
Israel has sent a search and rescue team and a field hospital to Nepal, just as you might recall the Jewish state sending one to Haiti five years ago. The Israeli army was preparing to send a rescue mission to Nepal Sunday that includes 260 people who will fly to Katmandu and set up a field hospital there.
The military delegation from the Home Front command has three tasks: to search for survivors of the earthquake and to operate a rescue team; to set up a field hospital to provide medical assistance to the injured; and to establish contact with the Israelis who have been incommunicado.
Forty doctors and about 80 members of a medical team will operate the military field hospital, which will include operating rooms, X-rays, an emergency room, a room for expectant mothers and more. Three rescue teams, each of them with 20 rescuers, will also be included in the military delegation, as well as three dogs from the Oketz canine special forces unit and their handlers.
The delegation will bring with it 95 tons of equipment for 14 full days of operation. It will take off this evening from Ben Gurion International Airport for Kathmandu in two El Al Boeing planes. One will be a transport plane and the other a passenger plane that will also carry equipment.
"We plan to take off at 10:30 P.M., due to the travel time and the weather in the Kathmandu area," said the delegation commander, Col. Yoram Laredo.
The Foreign Ministry says it estimates around 600 Israelis are in Nepal, and has secured contact with 400, most of them sheltering at the embassy in Kathmandu.
These include 25 couples in Nepal to bring home babies born to surrogates.
Of the nearly two dozen countries whose citizens were in Nepal at the time of the earthquake, Israel has the third highest number of citizens there after India and South Korea.Nepal is a very popular post-army destination for Israelis....
Israeli-based humanitarian organization IsraAID is also responding to the crisis in Nepal, coordinating with government officials, UN agencies and other international groups to provide assistance to the Himalayan country that is still reeling from aftershocks.
IsraAID is dispatching a disaster team to Nepal on Sunday to provide relief supplies and medical services, the group said in a statement. It also plans to set up "child-friendly" spaces and send psychologists to the disaster-stricken area.
"We already have an emergency team in place and hopefully we'll put them on a plane later," the group's Founding Director Shachar Zahavi told Israel National News on Sunday. "Just like in Haiti and in other places we have worked, it has medical aspects, opening up field hospitals parallel to those of the IDF. Of course, like in Haiti, we'll do anything in our power to coordinate our efforts with the IDF and the Israeli government."There are other countries that are sending assistance, but I haven't seen any details on what they're sending.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:15 PM
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Tonight at midnight, the #IDF will send a rescue and humanitarian mission with an Air Force aircraft to #Nepal .#NepalEarthquake
— Avital Leibovich (@AvitalLeibovich) April 25, 2015
Midnight is less than two hours from now and about four hours after the Sabbath ended. Labels: earthquake, IDF, Nepal
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:14 PM
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:16 PM
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Iranian state television reported at least 40 people were killed in the Islamic Republic, while Pakistani officials say at least five people, three women and two children, died in the southwest area of the country.
The US Geological Survey said the quake hit at 10:44 GMT at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles). Tremors from the 7.8 magnitude quake were also felt in India and Gulf states.
People in the city of Zahedan poured into the streets when the earthquake struck, Iran's Fars news agency reported.
All communications in the area have been cut, the Iranian Red Crescent's Mahmoud Mozaffar told state television. Rescue teams have been dispatched to the affected area, he said.
"In the aftermath of this earthquake five evaluation teams from the Khash and Saravan branches were sent to the area to assess damage," Mozaffar said.
The epicenter was in southeast Iran in an area of mountains and desert, 201 km (125 miles) southeast of Zahedan and 250 km northwest of Turbat in Pakistan, USGS said.Hmmm.
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Most of Iran's nuclear-related facilities are located in central Iran or its west, including the Bushehr nuclear power plant on the Gulf coast. A US Institute for Science and International Security map did not show any nuclear-linked facilities in southeastern Iran close to Pakistan.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:18 PM
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Iran plans to build more nuclear power reactors in an earthquake-prone coastal area, Iranian media said on Wednesday, a day after a strong tremor struck the region close to its only existing such plant.
Tuesday's 6.3-magnitude quake hit 89 km (55 miles) southeast of the port of Bushehr, killing 37 people and injuring more than 900 as it flattened small villages. The dead included eight children under the age of 10.
But the nuclear power station 18 km (11 miles) south of Bushehr was unaffected, according to Iranian officials and the Russian company that built the facility.
Tehran has repeatedly rejected safety concerns about Bushehr, which is located in a highly seismic area on Iran's Gulf coast and began operations in 2011 after decades of delays.
The head of the Islamic state's Atomic Energy Organization said hours after the earthquake that more reactors would be built there.
"This earthquake had no impact on the Bushehr nuclear power plant installation," Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani told state television late on Tuesday in comments published by the semi-official Mehr News Agency on Wednesday.
"Not only was the power plant not producing electricity or sending it to the grid at the time, but even while operating the Bushehr power plant has been designed to withstand earthquakes of more than 8.0 on the Richter scale," he said.So Iran will continue to tempt fate.... I wonder if you get your 72 virgins if you die in a nuclear meltdown from a plant that's intended to murder Jews.... Maybe they ought to ask the Japanese about building nuclear power plants along earthquake fault lines.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:55 PM
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People on social media have felt the quake across the Gulf in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.
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The USGS said the quake struck at 11:52 GMT at a depth of 10km (6.2 miles).
Iran's seismological centre in Bushehr province, linked to Tehran University, registered a 6.1 magnitude quake close to the town of Kaki, some 60 miles south of Bushehr.
More than five aftershocks have been felt so far, the strongest being a magnitude of 5.4.This is not a coincidence. It is an act of God. Thank You God!
Labels: Bushehr, earthquake, Iran, Iranian nuclear threat
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:17 PM
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Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Monday, October 24. 1) Some say ...
A number of AP dispatches on Yahoo! News have the following sentence:Some say they want to put their violent pasts behind them and move on with their lives, now that the celebrations marking their release have faded.My guess is that many more feel like this (thanks to DG and CAMERA)Older and grayer than the 20-year-old who was sentenced to life in prison for murder, Abu Amrin was one of 477 Palestinian convicts released Tuesday in the first step of a 1,027-for-1 exchange for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. About 80 miles away in a coastal Israeli city north of Tel Aviv, embittered father Zeev Rapp, 66, sat at home and watched the television in disgust. In 1992, Abu Amrin stabbed Rapp's daughter Helena, 15, in the heart as she was on her way to school. Now he was walking free with other smiling prisoners, flashing victory signs and kissing the ground. ...The remarks from the stage and elsewhere included no signs of regret. Abu Amrin, for example, defended his stabbing of the Israeli schoolgirl nearly 20 years ago. "Just as they have children and girls, so do we, and it's our right to kill all those who came to kill our women and children," he said of the apparently random attack, which took place as Helena was walking to a bus stop.or like this (h/t Elder of Ziyon):"A would-be Palestinian suicide bomber freed by Israel in the prisoner swap for soldier Gilad Shalit told cheering schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip the day after her release on Wednesday she hoped they would follow her example. " I hope you will walk the same path we took and God willing, we will see some of you as martyrs," Wafa al-Biss told dozens of children who came to her home in the northern Gaza Strip.or this:Gaidi, who is now a member of Islamic Jihad, claims to also have killed another man, Abraham Abu Ghosh. Gaidi now brags that it only cost three shekels to buy the knife that killed three Israelis.2) It wasn't always like this
Israel National News reports that Turkey refused aid from Israel (and others).Turkey rejected on Sunday offers of aid from dozens of countries after earthquakes hit the eastern Van province. Israel was among the countries ready to aid the Turks.Nor was this the first time:Israel offered aid to Turkey in March of 2010 after an earthquake struck the eastern part of the country. At least 57 people were killed in the quake, which measured 6 on the Richter scale, and there was widespread damage. Turkey refused the Israeli aid offer.Iran has similarly refused Israeli aid after and earthquake. But in 1999, the New York Times reported:Amid the scenes of horror and death that have afflicted this city since the earthquake last week, the brightest sign of life is a field hospital operated by doctors and nurses from the Israeli Army. Eight babies have been born here since the quake. One boy was named Israel, and one girl is called Ziona. Their names are symbols of how firmly the earthquake has sealed the alliance between Israel and Turkey. ''God bless the Israelis,'' said one new mother, Serap Balcioglu, whose child was born blue and seemingly lifeless but was revived by an emergency team at the hospital. ''They're taking beautiful care of me. What would we do without them?''Erdogan would rather have his people die.
3) How popular is Hamas? Following on a report two weeks ago in the Christian Science Monitor, Time Magazine (via memeorandum) reports that Hamas isn't all that popular in Gaza.When the islamist movement known as Hamas first took control of Gaza in 2006, the family of Ahmed Ayyash, a third-year engineering student at the Hamas-controlled Islamic University, gave the party their full backing. Like a solid plurality of Palestinian voters, they thought the Islamists would provide clean government, in contrast to the corruption-riddled Fatah that had ruled for years. Then Ayyash's mother applied for a teaching job. She was offered it immediately: to the Hamas official who interviewed her, all that mattered was that her husband knew people in the new government. A principled woman, Ayyash's mother turned down the job because, he says, "it was through wasta." That's Arabic for connections, and in Gaza it symbolized everything that was wrong with the old administration, everything Hamas claimed to oppose. "This was their slogan at election time, to end the wasta," Ayyash recalls. Ayyash lost faith in the Islamists early, and in the six years since, he's been joined by many other Gazans who complain that Hamas' patronage politics favors the few while the majority suffer.This is key. Hamas despite some discrete examples of good governance, was (and is) as corrupt as Fatah. There's a lot wrong with the Time article (given that it's written by Karl Vick that's no surprise), such as:How did Hamas lose Gazan hearts and minds? Not the way you might think. Few Gazans blame Hamas for the most damaging events that have happened on its watch: the siege, the trade embargo, the three-week Israeli military assault in late 2008 and early 2009 that killed 1,400 residents and left tens of thousands homeless. Israel's efforts to drive a wedge between Hamas and its supporters have consistently failed: Gazans reliably side with Hamas over Israel. But they are less forgiving of Hamas for Gaza's international isolation, the pariah status the Islamists defiantly embraced when the West withdrew aid because of Hamas' terrorist activities. In an enclave so difficult to leave, the isolation "makes you feel that you're a less-deserving human," one young blogger says.I don't believe that anything Israel did was designed to "drive a wedge between Hamas and its supporters," but to protect itself from terrorism. The "isolation" in the second paragraph, is secondary to the corruption. How will average residents of Gaza feel when they see that Hamas spared no expense in releasing Shalit and welcoming terrorists? I also don't buy that Netanyahu was motivated to make the deal in order to undermine Abbas. No doubt that was a benefit; but not a lasting one. I think that Aaron David Miller had it mostly right (h/t HR's Mideast Cheat Sheet):But now that it is done (or almost so), what exactly does it all mean? First, let's not have any illusions here: The deal for Shalit was self-contained; it offers no first phase of a broader political deal between Israel and Hamas, no Act I in some kind of modus-vivendi play with a happy ending to break open the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.There was an opportunity and Netanyahu took it along with the risks involved.
Labels: earthquake, Hamas, Middle East Media Sampler, Muammar Gaddafi, Soccer Dad, terrorists for Gilad trade, Turkey
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:40 PM
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Israel is a leader - in this region and perhaps worldwide the leader - in technology and equipment for extracting people from destroyed buildings, in setting up field hospitals quickly, and in many other fields that are relevant to countries suffering from natural disasters. Israeli teams have traveled all over the world - even to countries with which we do not have diplomatic relations (such as Malaysia after the tsunami several years ago) to assist in disaster relief.President Shimon Peres has called Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and sent his condolences over the deaths caused by the powerful earthquake that hit the country. Peres also reiterated Israel's offer for humanitarian aid.But Israel Radio reports that Turkey has accepted assistance - from Iran and Azerbaijan, who are world experts in... nothing.
Gul thanked Peres, but said that the Turkish search and rescue forces are expected to be able to handle the relief efforts.
The quake area is described as 'southeastern Turkey along the Iranian border.' On this map, that area is part of what is labeled Kurdistan. Could it be that Turkey would rather 'lose' a few more Kurds as earthquake casualties? Could it be that Turkey fears contact between Israelis and other international rescuers and its Kurdish population for fear of what they might learn is really going on in Kurdistan? Could it be that Turkey fears Kurdistan will gain international support if rescuers go there?Labels: Abdullah Gul, earthquake, Kurdistan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish obsession with Israel
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:29 AM
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:03 PM
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Good morning from Budapest (yes, really Debbie R). I'm having some trouble staying connected, so posts may be short and sweet.Labels: earthquake, Fukushima nuclear power plant, Iranian nuclear program
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:52 AM
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:36 PM
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You're hearing about them less this time, partly because Japan is a much more advanced society than Haiti, and partly because most of the work they're doing on the ground is not minute-to-minute-life-and-death surgery (unfortunately, many of the victims were swept out to sea). But the IDF is the only one of more than 40 delegations who volunteered to come to Japan to help with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami who actually showed up. And they're performing surgery in a country that has a law forbidding foreigners from performing surgery! Here's the story from the Toronto Star (usually a strongly anti-Israel newspaper) (Hat Tip: NY Nana). Arriving a couple weeks after a four-storey wall of water swept away more than half of Minami-Sanriku’s 16,000 people, the 50-member medical team isn’t dealing with emergencies.I wonder if any of the countries pushing for a 'Palestinian state' that has a theology that includes replacing Israel has thought about who will help their country the next time the disaster strikes and 'Palestine' - God forbid - sits in the middle of the Levant.
Instead they’ve set up a clinic with expertise not easily found in rural Japan — gynecology, urology, pediatrics, ophthalmology. Given the gasoline shortage, an obstetrical team has been visiting pregnant women in the scattered emergency shelters, ultrasound in hand.
One of Merin’s colleagues, Dr. David Raveh, writes movingly in his blog about the director of the town’s old-age home who appeared at the clinic with her Japanese doctor, two weeks after the receding wave sucked at her legs.
“What strength she had, to overcome the wild shearing force of waves, holding onto a pole,” he writes.
She thought nothing of the cuts on her legs, tending instead to the elderly residents. Now her jaw and neck were tense, her doctor told him.
“I cut him short after his second sentence, my eyes widening. Tetanus, I said decisively to her doctor.”
To each of these patients, the Israelis’ presence must offer some solace. But the greater work being done is diplomatic, Merin says.
“There was a law in Japan that stated non-Japanese people were not allowed to treat the Japanese on their ground,” Merin says. “Hopefully, this will open their minds, that countries should assist one another.”
The Israeli mission follows the Jewish concept of tikkun olam — to repair the world. But Merin has his own personal reasons for helping. In 1942, the Nazis entered a Polish village and loaded the Jews onto boxcars bound for the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Sensing their impending doom, one couple slipped their 8-year-old son off the train. A Catholic woman living in one village over hid him in her cupboard for 18 months.
“Once the war ended, he got out and eventually went to Israel. He got married and had three sons. I’m the second,” said Merin, 50, who has four children of his own now.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:28 PM
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:24 AM
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An IDF delegation has arrived in Japan and has set up a clinic.The city where the IDF field clinic is being established is attracting many displaced persons and the IDF aid delegation is currently distributing and setting up the medical equipment in order to have the field clinic operational. The field clinic will feature:The set up looks a bit less Spartan than Haiti, but at least in Haiti they weren't contending with radiation.
- X-ray
- Pediatrics ward
- Surgical ward
- Maternity and Gynecological wards
- Otolaryngology (Ears, Nose and Throat)
- Optometry department
- Laboratory
- Intensive Care Unit
- Pharmacy
Seven Japanese nationals who speak Hebrew joined the delegation today in order to provide translation services and serve as liaisons with the local population. A preliminary meeting was held today between the medical officers of the delegation and the representatives from local medical services. Tomorrow, a meeting is scheduled with the community leaders in the area.
Radiation levels in the area where the IDF aid delegation has deployed are being followed carefully by experts from the Atomic Energy Commission and by experts from the IDF Medical Corps in order to ensure that there is no danger posed to delegation members or patients in the area.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:33 AM
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Could there be a connection between the crisis over Japan's nuclear facilities and Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon? Several weeks before the Fukushima accident, Japanese deputy minister for foreign affairs Bessho Koro visited Tehran to meet with Iranian Foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi and carry the message of a pro-Iran Japan (after all, if it's profitable, why not?):Hmmm. Read the whole thing.The Japanese deputy foreign minister said Japan supports Iran's nuclear energy program and added that Iran has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. He went on to say that Tokyo is determined to develop ties with Tehran. Salehi and Koro also discussed the latest regional developments and called for the expansion of cooperation between the two countries in all spheres.What exactly are the latest regional developments? Iran suppressing democratic protests? The threat of Iranian-funded terrorism taking hold in the new chaos facing the Middle East? Gaza firing Iranian rockets on Israel? Where exactly are the regional developments that create an environment conducive between anything resembling the 21st-century world with one of the most oppressive and unstable regimes on the planet?!
And here's what was in the works last February (via Israel Matzav):
Politico: Japan emerges as key player on IranUnder the alleged compromise fuel swap deal that Japanese diplomats quietly briefed U.S. officials on earlier this month, some 70% of Iran’s low enriched uranium stockpile would be moved to Japan, according to what one Washington source, speaking anonymously, was told by the Japanese. Japan would then take responsibility for the stockpile, and ensure the delivery to Iran of fuel rods for nuclear medical use.If there were any plans in the works for Japan to supply Iran with fuel rods for "medical use", the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis "wiped them off the face of the earth", so to speak. In the Politico article, there's an interesting fact mentioned that creates an eerie connection between the future of Egypt and the latest nuclear crisis:
Labels: earthquake, Fukushima nuclear power plant, Iran, Iranian nuclear program, Japan, tsunami
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:28 PM
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DigitalGlobe has released a new commercial satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site in Japan taken at 10:55AM local time on March 17, 2011. Steam continues to vent out of the top of the Unit 3 reactor building. Steam also appears to be continuing to vent out of the side of the Unit 2 reactor building.Hmmm.
The roof of the Unit 4 reactor building appears different than it did in the March 16, 2011 image. While the paneling on the roof of the building appears intact in the March 16, 2011 image, it appears that only the skeleton of the roof frame is left in the March 17, 2011 image. While it is possible that the varying angles of the images is affecting the appearance, the difference appears significant enough to indicate a structural change. It is unclear how the roof structure changed. With only a skeleton frame on the roof, it may be easier to deliver water to the spent fuel pond to Unit 4 from above.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:39 AM
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Dr. Michael Allen, an expert on nuclear reactor meltdowns, talks about some of the worst case scenarios in Japan (Hat Tip: Instapundit). The worst of the worst could come if Japan can't come up with a way to sufficiently cool down the reactor fuel cores. That has reportedly become increasingly difficult with workers evacuating the sites -- at least temporarily -- because of high radiation fields.I've heard a lot of reports of Japan using helicopters to get water into the reactors and cool their cores. What I don't understand is why they're not using the water-tanker planes that were used for the Haifa forest fire here a few months ago.
"These things play out over a long period of time, longer than people would think," Allen said. "You have an earthquake that lasts maybe a minute, a tsunami that lasts maybe 15 minutes. But these things could go on for months. You could lose all six of the reactors."
If workers are unable to get additional cooling water into the reactor vessel, the molten fuel core will collapse into the water in bottom of the vessel. Eventually the heat from the decaying fuel would boil away the water that's left, leaving the core sitting on the vessel's lower head made of steel.
Should that happen, "It'll melt through it like butter," Allen said.
That, in turn, would cause a "high-pressure melt injection" into the water-filled concrete cavity below the reactor. Because the concrete would likely be unheated, the reaction created by the sudden injection of the reactor's ultra-hot content would be immense, he said.
"It'll be like somebody dropped a bomb, and there'll be a big cloud of very, very radioactive material above the ground," Allen said, noting that it would contain uranium and plutonium, as well as the fission products.
Should these events happen, the best outcome would be if the winds are blowing east and push the radioactive plume over the Pacific Ocean, he said. "It (the radioactivity) will fall out in the ocean and everything will be fine," he said.
The worst case, Allen said, would be if winds pushed a radioactive cloud south toward Tokyo and Japan's highly populated cities. If that were to happen, he said, the consequences would likely be greater than the 1986 accident at Chernobyl, where an entire area of Ukraine had to be evacuated because of the radioactive conditions that increased the risk of developing cancer.
Should these events happen, the best outcome would be if the winds are blowing east and push the radioactive plume over the Pacific Ocean, he said. "It (the radioactivity) will fall out in the ocean and everything will be fine," he said.
The worst case, Allen said, would be if winds pushed a radioactive cloud south toward Tokyo and Japan's highly populated cities. If that were to happen, he said, the consequences would likely be greater than the 1986 accident at Chernobyl, where an entire area of Ukraine had to be evacuated because of the radioactive conditions that increased the risk of developing cancer.
Labels: earthquake, Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan, nuclear meltdown, tsunami
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:45 PM
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A cable released by Wikileaks discloses that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned of danger to Japanese nuclear facilities that were only built to withstand magnitude 7 earthquakes on the Richter scale. The IAEA official told a meeting of the G8's Nuclear Safety and Security Group in Tokyo in 2008 that Japan's safety guidelines were outdated, the cable said.Over at Pajamas Media, Roger Simon considers and quickly rejects the prospect that what happened in Japan will have any effect on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
According to the cable, the official raised concern that safety guidelines for seismic safety were only revised three times in the last 35 years.
"Also, the presenter noted recent earthquakes in some cases have exceeded the design basis for some nuclear plants, and that this is a serious problem that is now driving seismic safety work," the cable noted.
Not surprisingly, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the man who informed us that there are no homosexuals in Iran, insists that their reactors are modern and earthquake proof (if not resistant to Israeli computer viruses), even though Wikipedia reminds us:There are six Arab capitals (Kuwait, Riyadh, Manama, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Muscat) that are closer to the Bushehr nuclear plant than Tehran is. I wonder if their rulers are willing to sacrifice their people for Iran's apocalyptic vision.Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, being crossed by several major fault lines that cover at least 90% of the country. As a result, earthquakes in Iran occur often and are destructive.They list nine Iranian earthquakes of 5.9 or above since 2002, all of which had fatalities and one of which — the 2003 Bam quake — claimed at least 30,000 lives.
With their overweening nuclear ambitions, the mullahs are as likely to blow up their own citizens (and plenty of them) as anybody else, given how things are going. Not that they would care. It’s all part of the chaos, don’t you know? And they evidently think their time — the Mahdi’s time — actually has come.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:20 AM
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