Mar 19-20 - Japan 3.11 - Nuclear plant and Surviors news update

4 key factors will determine the nuclear disaster destiny

The nuclear crisis triggered by earthquake and tsunami has been going on for nearly a week. Nuclear experts point out that it is simple but not easy to resolve this crisis, if government wants make it under control which will be determine on four factors: time, power, water and manpower co-ordination.

Good News in Nuclear Plant

The operator of Japan's crippled, leaking nuclear plant says two of the six reactor units are now safely under control after their fuel storage pools cooled down.

Tokyo Electric Power Company declared Units 5 and 6 safe Sunday night after days of pumping water into the reactors pool brought temperatures down.

Food fears spread amid progress at nuclear plant

 Chiyoko Kaizuka, 83-year old farmer, stands at her spinach field Sunday, March 20, 2011 in Moriya, Ibaragi Prefecture






Beyond the disaster area, uncertainly grew over the safety of food and water.  The government halted shipments of spinach from one area and raw milk from another near the nuclear plant after tests found iodine exceeded safety limits.  But the contamination spread to spinach in 3 other prefectures and to more vegetables - canola and chrysanthemum greens.  Tokyo's tap water, where iodine turned up Friday, now has cesium.  Rain and dust are tainted too.

In all cases, the government said the radiation levels were too small to pose an immediate risk to health.  Still, Taiwan seized a batch of fava beans from Japan found with faint - and legal - amounts of iodine and cesium.


Some of the people consider as missing have been found

A Japanese soldier prayed before removing a body from rubble in the town of Otsuchi.

Rescue workers prayed over a body retrieved from the rubble in Rikuzentakata on Thursday.

Members of Japan Self-Defense Force pray for the body of a tsunami victim wrapped in a tarp in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 20, 2011.





She give hug to everyone no matter you know them or not

One woman who survived from the earthquake, she gives a hug to everyone she see everyday, no matter she knows or she doesn't know.  She said to all the people she hug, 'Good to see you and glad you survived like me'.  Her hug is mean a lot to people specially those people who lost their family or their home.






You should run or use a bike instead of driving when Tsunami hit
At the moment of Tsunami hit, one  83 years old woman use her bike and she has successful escape by riding a bicycle to the hill.  However, not everyone lucky as she is, some survivors told reporter that they saw many people ran out from one factory when the tsunami hit, most people are missing if they choose to drive, the survivors are those people who choose to run.