Could someone create a new topic about it in the Music section? I'm very busy organizing this and with school to build up 10 meaningful posts on the board before I am allowed to do so myself. :/ We'd all appreciate it to get the word out. Thanks. (~.^)

In short - no.

This thread is specifically about the disaster, thus your post should be right here rather than in it's own thread if it is to reach people who want to help out.

~spidey

PSY-Y-Y!!!




To-san, I am happy to hear about the people being found alive! That is something to rejoice about in the midst of the disasters befalling Japan.

Apparently they might put the highest threat level on the scale for Fukujima.

TOKYO – Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster... The new ranking signifies a "major accident" that includes widespread effects on the environment and health, according to the Vienna-based IAEA... The revision came a day after the government added five communities to a list of places people should leave to avoid long-term radiation exposure. A 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius already had been cleared around the plant...

Sometimes a picture says more than thousand words http://www.german-gothic-board.de/4images/details.php?image_id=22090

2.The release of data from the expensive SPEEDI system, was delayed until March 23.[12 days] This delay resulted in unnecessary radiation exposure. “It is only conceivable that the high rate of radiation released was not reported because of fears of a panic.”
3.Former Minister for Internal Affairs Haraguchi Kazuhiro has alleged that radiation monitoring station data was actually three decimal places greater than the numbers released to the public. If this is true, it constitutes a “national crime”, in Nishio’s words. He follows with, “Giving us the truth once is much more important than saying ‘hang in there Japan!’ a million times.”
4.According to Japanese law, the rate of radiation exposure permitted for ordinary citizens is 1 mSv / year. This has been raised to 20 mSv / year in a “time of crisis”. Such a dramatic increase in permitted exposure is akin to “taking the lives of the people lightly”. Nishio believes that 20 mSv is too high, especially for children who are far more susceptible to the effects of radiation.

A last remark on the Fukujima reactor accident. Japanese Prime Minister told yesterday that his country will stepwise abolish nucelar plants.

Wall Street Journal