News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government
02 Apr 2011
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Crack in concrete called source of radioactive water leaking into sea 02 Apr 2011 Highly radioactive water from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from a cracked concrete sump near the No. 2 reactor, an official with the plant's owner said Saturday. Water from the two-meter deep, concrete-lined basin could be seen escaping into the sea through a roughly 20-cm (8-inch) crack, an official the Tokyo Electric Power Company told reporters Saturday afternoon. But the company could not explain how the water was getting into the sump, which is a pit in which liquid collects.

Japan pays 'suicide squads' fortunes to work in stricken nuclear plant as 'battle is lost for reactor two' --Four reactors at stricken plant to be decommissioned --Subcontractors offered £760 a day - 20 times going rate - to brave radiation levels but some refuse --One expert who designed reactor says race to save reactor two is 'lost' --Radiation levels in sea water 3,335 times higher than normal --Readings are almost three times worse than last week --Unmanned drone photographs plant from the air amid health fear for pilots 30 Mar 2011 Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are being paid vast sums of money to brave high radiation levels - as experts warn that the race to save the facility has been lost. Subcontractors are reportedly being offered up to 100,000 yen a day (£760) - 20 times the going rate - but some are still refusing the dangerous work. Radiation levels are still extremely high at the plant, with water around the reactors emitting a highly dangerous 1,000 millisieverts per hour.

Japan plans to bail out stricken nuclear plant 01 Apr 2011 Japan plans to take control of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the country's stricken nuclear plant, in the face of mounting public concerns over the crisis and a huge potential compensation bill, a newspaper reported on Friday. Shares of the company, also known as TEPCO, fell as much as 10 percent after the Mainichi newspaper said the government plans to inject public funds into the firm, although it is unlikely to take more than a 50 percent stake.

Jets Make Emergency Landings --'Unrelated incidents' involve Southwest Airlines and American Airlines jets 02 Apr 2011 Two U.S. jetliners made emergency descents and landed at unscheduled airports in separate incidents Friday, with some passengers apparently becoming dizzy or fainting due to lack of oxygen. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said that while Southwest Flight 812 was cruising at 36,000 feet from Phoenix to Sacramento, a hole ripped open in the fuselage that resulted in a rapid decompression. Preliminary eyewitness reports indicated a tear in the aluminum skin, perhaps several feet long, on top of the aircraft.

Afghanistan: Kandahar protest at Koran burning 02 Apr 2011 Four people have been killed in the Afghan city of Kandahar during a demonstration against the burning of a Koran in the US. It followed a protest over the same issue in the northern city of Mazar-i Sharif on Friday left 14 people dead, including seven UN workers. It was the worst attack on the UN mission in Afghanistan since the international invasion in 2001.

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