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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/03/14/2011-03-14_17_us_navy_crewmembers_exposed_to_low_level_radiation_in_japan.html

Low-level contamination, remedied with soap and water, and discarding the clothing.  However,

 

"The U.S. 7th Fleet, positioned about 100 miles northeast of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to deliver aid to Japan's coastal region, moved its ships further away due to "airborne radioactivity" and contamination found on its planes."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis

"The U.N. nuclear agency said a state of emergency was also declared Sunday at another complex, the Onagawa power plant, after higher-than-permitted levels of radiation were measured there. It said Japan informed it that all three of those reactors there were under control.

"Four nuclear complexes in northeastern Japan have reported some damage from the quake or the tsunami."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake

"The pulverized coast has been hit by hundreds of aftershocks since Friday, the latest one a 6.2 magnitude quake that was followed by a new tsunami scare Monday. As sirens wailed, soldiers abandoned their search operations and told residents of the devastated shoreline in Soma, the worst hit town in Fukushima prefecture, to run to higher ground.

"They barked out orders: "Find high ground! Get out of here!" Several soldiers were seen leading an old woman up a muddy hillside. The warning turned out to be a false alarm.

 

History repeats itself (remember Haiti?):  "People are surviving on little food and water. Things are simply not coming," said Hajime Sato, a government official in Iwate prefecture, one of the three hardest hit.  He said authorities were receiving just 10 percent of the food and other supplies they need."

 

 

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Monster Aftershock Could Strike Within Days

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/monster-aftershock-could-strike-within-days-20110313-1bt2p.html

Historically, it would be one point lower, a 7.9.

"The US Geological Survey estimated the quake moved the Japanese coast about 2.4 metres.

''It basically pushed the sea floor up and down on opposite sides of the fault by 10 metres, causing the tsunami,'' Dr McCue said. ''It is a sudden rupture that has occurred, but it has occurred because the two plates are converging at about eight centimetres a year and have been for about 100 years. That eight metres is released suddenly when the plate snaps and breaks and produces the earthquake.''

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More On The Japanese Nuclear Crisis

Japan Battles Nuclear Meltdown

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6600348-4dbb-11e0-85e4-00144feab49a.html#axzz1GX8M0Dcf

 

Japan Races To Avert Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns

http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=6897685677472710

 

Japan Says Second Blast Possible At Plant; Radiation Falls

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-13/japan-says-second-blast-possible-at-plant-radiation-falls.html

 

US West Coast In Path Of Fallout

http://www.prisonplanet.com/if-there-were-a-reactor-meltdown-or-major-leak-at-fukushima-the-radioactive-cloud-would-likely-be-blown-out-towards-the-us-west-coast.html

 

 

 

 

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