Well, it's official; the lives of the people of Japan have just reached a NEW ultimate low this week. A tsunami and a 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 were the starters of what seems to be one big fire of chaos and disaster in Japan. Contamination, as reported earlier Saturday by Shino Yuasa in Toyko and Eric Talmadge of the Associated Press (Yahoo!), has reached nearby towns of the nuclear plant explosion which happened a few days ago. Radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the tsunami-crippled facility exceeded government safety limits were found Saturday by officials on the site. Small amounts of radiation were also found in tap water throughout the nearby villages. These are only a few of the cascade of unimaginable disasters that have hit Japan's eastern coast. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake caused the tsunami Friday. It is estimated that some 7,600 people died as a result of the tsunami. 11,000 people or more are still missing and some 452,000 are living in shelters currently. "The failure of Fukushima's backup power systems, which were supposed to keep cooling systems going in the aftermath of the earthquake, let uranium fuel overheat and were a "main cause" of the crisis," said Nishiyama of the nuclear safety agency. Perhaps Japan will recover soon, but all that be said is that Japan's condition is currently worse than any other related issues. The tsunami that swept through Japan's eastern coast was three times as bad as that of the aftermath of the 2005 hit by Hurricane Katrina.
-John "Jack" Urdiales
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
What happened in Japan is truely heartbreaking. I cannot imagine that happening to my country and having everything i own just taken away from me and possibly not knowing whatever happened to my family members. I think it is not only important, but neccesary to help out Japan in their desprete time of need. i feel so bad for the people over there, not only did they experience such a horrible thing and so many still are lost from family, but now having to worry about radiation in your food and water? That would just be terrifying. It will take a very long time, if ever, for that part of Japan to fully rebuild and get back to a semi normal way of life. Hurricane Katrina was in 2005 and many buildings still havent been rebuilt or fixed and people are still living in trailers waiting for government help. I hope that more and more people are found safely and that people can start to put their lives back together. For this to be possible though, we definitely need to help.
ReplyDeleteHaley Dawes
Even though this is not a U.S. affiliated event I will talk about how the U.S. should stay out of the Japanese's problems. This is because we are involved in so much already. We are in a war and this big thing going on in Libyia is jacking up our gas prices. We need to help in our own catastrophes as Ms. Dawes stated the Katrina victims still need help. I think we can stay out of this one.
ReplyDelete-Zazo
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/01/06/obama-faces-the-same-problems-in-2011
I agree that Japan has hit rock bottom at this point but even though they are one of the greatest inavators of technology no one could have seen a disaster like this coming. Also for how they managed to handle it cut them sum slack
ReplyDeleteMichael Delagrange