Japan Nuclear Threat - Cyclone Season About To Start

The 9.1 earthquake in Japan has created an positively startling tragedy given the resulting tsunami and nuclear meltdown problem. The country deserves a bit of good news, but doesn't seem primed to get it. No, now Japan is about to enter cyclone season.

It is positively difficult to understate the earthquake damage in Japan. 9.1 is a huge number, but reconsider the aftershocks the country has had. Since "the big one", it has had 40 quakes of magnitude in excess of 6.0. To give you a sense of how this compares to other tremors, the Northridge earthquake in greater Los Angeles was a 6.7. It caused 8.7 billion in damages, killed 33 citizen and left 8,700 injured. That is just one quake!

Nuclear Power

As the seasons roll over, Japan now comes to a rough one. The first cyclones can start rolling in as soon as May. This presents a rather gigantic problem. The reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power middle point are still sitting damaged structures. Well, damaged is a minor understatement. Reactor 3 looks like a pile of rubble. This lends itself to the rather inevitable inquire of what happens if a typhoon with 100 plus mile an hour winds rolls through the area?

Is there any good news? Yes. Most of the typhoons that hit Japan tend to stay to the southern end of the country. The Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant is, of course, in the north. Having said this, the area where the plant is placed was hit directly or skirted with no less than 8 different typhoons in 2004. If this were to happen again in 2011, the results are hard to fantasize but would positively be horrific given the state of the reactors as they sit today.

Then there is the inquire of the impact on sea currents. As we all know, the radiation from the power plant is currently primarily arrival in the form of radiated water. This water is being dumped in one form or someone else into the ocean. Authorities claim it isn't a problem, but it is no private that the majority of the Japanese diet comes in the form of seafood. The current threat is bad enough, but what happens when typhoons start stirring up the seas along Japan?

The most troubling aspect of all of this is the fact the problems with the reactor seem to have fallen off the table with news outlets. Many citizen are now under the impression the reactors are no longer leaking radiation. They are. The news outlets plainly do not article about it any longer. Now that is a tragedy.

Japan Nuclear Threat - Cyclone Season About To Start