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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Thảm họa động đất sóng thần năm 2011 tại Nhật bản
08:39-11/03/2012
| Nghiêm Minh Quang(+*), Võ Văn Thắng(*), Đỗ Bá Đức(*), Nguyễn Trọng Chiến(*), Bùi Đức Quỳnh(*) |
(Đôi điều về công việc của những chuyên gia phòng chống sạt trượt đất)
Kỉ niệm 1 năm ngày xảy ra thảm họa. Tri ân sự hi sinh của những cộng sự can đảm cùng gia quyến của họ. Cầu mong bình an sớm trở lại trên mảnh đất chịu nhiều thiên tai này.
Kỉ niệm 1 năm ngày xảy ra thảm họa. Tri ân sự hi sinh của những cộng sự can đảm cùng gia quyến của họ. Cầu mong bình an sớm trở lại trên mảnh đất chịu nhiều thiên tai này.
Vào 14h46 ngày 11 tháng 3 năm 2011,một trong những trận động đất lớn nhất trong lịch sử nhân loại với chấn độ cấp 7, cấp cao nhất theo thang chấn độ Nhật Bản đã xảy ra tại miền đông bắc Nhật bản. Sau cơn chấn động khoảng 30 đến 50 phút các đợt sóng thần với chiều cao trung bình 9.3m tại vùng gần tâm chấn đã tàn phá vùng duyên hải(1) gây hư hại nghiêm trọng hai nhà máy phát điện hạt nhân nguyên tử tại tỉnh Fukushima. Theo số liệu của trung tâm dự báo thời tiết thì khi xảy ra động đất nhiệt độ ngoài trời khoảng 2 - 3oC, một số vùng vẫn còn tuyết phủ trắng xóa, tốc độ gió từ 3 đến 4 m theo hướng Tây Nam(1). Động đất, sóng thần, thời tiết giá lạnh khắc nghiệt và tiếp theo đó là ô nhiễm phóng xạ đã gây ra thiệt hại lớn về người (cả người chết và mất tích) ước tính khoảng 16,140 người thiệt mạng, 3,123 mất tích(1). Thiệt hại về vật chất từ 196.8 tới 307.5 tỷ USD(2).
Thursday, March 1, 2012
記者の目：続・ソーシャルメディアと新聞＝小川一（コンテンツ事業本部）
◇新時代の協働へ徹底議論を
ツイッターなどソーシャルメディアと、新聞などマスメディアは今後、どう協働していくべきか－－。新時代での新聞改革やその情報発信のあり方を巡り、毎日新聞は２月以降、社内での研究会（記者、営業職など計約５５０人が参加）を続けてきた。私は２月２日付の本欄で、「今後、新聞記者はソーシャルメディアを活用し、読者との『双方向』対話を深めるべきだ」と訴え、記者ができる範囲で取材の過程を公開したり、ネット上に拡散する誤情報を記者が指摘することなどが、今後の新聞の課題だと訴えた。だがこれには反論も多い。新時代に向けた議論の中身と、試みの一部を報告したい。
「記者ができる範囲で取材過程を公開する」。私のこの主張に関して、研究会では、３０代の生きづらさを報告した毎日新聞くらしナビ面の連載「リアル３０’ｓ」（１月）の取材班が報告した。
Thursday, December 22, 2011
映画館に交錯する涙と笑い（震災取材ブログ）
＠福島・いわき
- 2011/12/22 12:00
映画「がんばっぺ フラガール！」をロングラン上映するポレポレいわき(福島県いわき市)
隣の女性が、すすり泣く。前に座った男性がハンカチで目元をぬぐう。12月４日、福島県いわき市の映画館「ポレポレいわき」は涙にぬれていた。スクリーンに映されたのは「がんばっぺ フラガール！」。東日本大震災で大きな被害を受けた市内のリゾート施設「スパリゾートハワイアンズ」の懸命な復旧を追ったドキュメンタリーだ。
いわきは、かつて炭鉱で栄えた街。エネルギー政策の変転で苦境に陥った1960年代半ば、けん引役だった常磐炭鉱（現常磐興産）がリゾート事業を始めた。以来、半世紀近く、浮き沈みはあれど、ハワイアンズは地域のにぎわいの源だった。
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
14/12 Interim storage facilities planned for near N-plant
The Environment Ministry plans to build interim facilities to store soil and ash contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, in the prefecture's Futaba county, sources said Tuesday.
The ministry is expected to officially announce the plan by the end of the year. The ministry said it would select a location for the storage facilities by the end of fiscal 2012 at the latest. It now plans to choose municipalities to hold the material.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
11/12 Fukushima gov. given details of recovery bill
FUKUSHIMA--Tatsuo Hirano, state minister for reconstruction, explained the gist of a bill on the special measures law on Fukushima Prefecture's restoration and revitalization in a meeting with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the Fukushima prefectural government office on Saturday morning.
The central government plans to submit the bill at an ordinary Diet session to be convened next month.
Friday, December 2, 2011
心まで汚染されてたまるか（震災取材ブログ）
＠福島・いわき
- 2011/12/2 12:00
11月22日、福島県いわき市の小名浜港を訪ねた。震災で津波に襲われ、港周辺にある鮮魚店や水産加工会社の大半は今も復旧していない。
閑散とした港を歩いていると、シャッターを下ろしたままの水産会社が目に留まった。柱に据えられた看板には、大きな文字でこう書かれていた。「心まで汚染されてたまるか」
小名浜港周辺の水産会社や鮮魚店はシャッターを下ろしたまま
私は建物の前に立ち尽くしてしまった。先行きの不透明さにめげそうになる気持ちを、必死で奮い立たせようとしている従業員らの悲痛な叫びが伝わってきた。
岩手や宮城の沿岸部も、この小名浜と同じように、大津波で漁港の機能が失われた。ただ、小名浜が両県の港と異なるのは、鮮魚店などが地元産の魚を扱える見通しが立っていないことだ。福島第１原発の事故から約９カ月。今でも一部の魚の放射性セシウムが暫定規制値を超えている。
Monday, November 14, 2011
14/11 福島県の甲状腺検査、医師らが県内各地へ
東京電力福島第一原発事故を受けて、福島県が１８歳以下（４月１日時点）の県民約３６万人を対象に実施している甲状腺検査で、医師らが県内各地に出向いて行う巡回検査が１４日から始まった。
この日の検査は川俣町内の保育園１か所と町災害対策本部がある町保健センターで行われ、約２５０人が受診。喉に超音波の検査機器を当てて甲状腺の画像を映し出し、しこりの有無を調べた。結果は約１か月後に郵送される。
この日の検査は川俣町内の保育園１か所と町災害対策本部がある町保健センターで行われ、約２５０人が受診。喉に超音波の検査機器を当てて甲状腺の画像を映し出し、しこりの有無を調べた。結果は約１か月後に郵送される。
Saturday, November 5, 2011
05/11 Cleaning up Japan’s nuclear mess: The twilight zone
Its owner fears not just radiation leaking out of the Fukushima plant, but also bad news
Nov 5th 2011 | IWAKI | from the print edition
IT IS another world beyond the roadblocks stopping unauthorised traffic from entering the 20km (12.5-mile) exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The few people inside are dressed in ghostly white protective suits. Town after town was abandoned after March 11th, and spiders have strung webs across the doorways. An old lady’s russet wig lies in the road, lost perhaps as she took flight after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Outside the “Night Friend” nightclub in Tomioka, 9km from the nuclear plant, this correspondent was confronted by an ostrich with a feral glint.
05/11 Japan’s nuclear conundrum: The $64 billion question
Once the Fukushima nuclear plant is stable, the government should temporarily nationalise its operator
Nov 5th 2011 | from the print edition
“THIS is a war between humans and technology. While that war is being fought, we should not talk about bankruptcy.” So says a Japanese official responsible for channelling the first tranche of ¥5 trillion ($64 billion) in government support to Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) following the meltdown of its three reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after the tsunami on March 11th.
The support has two valid aims. It helps pay compensation to the 89,000 people forced to abandon their homes within a 20km (12.5-mile) radius of the plant: in the twilight zone only farm animals and the odd feral ostrich roam the streets (see article). It also spares Tepco the chaos of insolvency as it races towards a year-end deadline for Fukushima’s full shutdown.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
09/10 風評被害 福島をこれ以上悲しませるな（10月9日付・読売社説）
大阪府河内長野市の架橋工事で、福島県郡山市の建設会社が製造した橋桁を使うことに、地元住民から放射能汚染への不安の声が上がった。発注元の府は工事を中断した。
６日の参院復興特別委員会で、自民党の岩城光英氏がこの問題を取り上げて、「悲しい話だ」と述べた。同じ思いを抱いた人は多かっただろう。
野田首相は、科学的知見に基づく安全性の周知徹底を約束し、「万全を期す」とした。
建設会社が検査業者を通じ橋桁表面の放射線量を測定したところ、年間許容被曝 量の上限を下回る数値だったという。
09/10 Most municipalities undecided on where to store contaminated soil
2011/10/09
Mayor Yuko Endo of Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, explains to residents in Koriyama about plans to store radiation-contaminated soil. (Hiroki Koizumi)Only two of 59 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture have decided where to build temporary storage areas for soil contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.
One reason so many have not yet decided on a location is uncertainty over where an intermediate storage facility for the radioactive soil will be established. In fact, all 59 municipalities contacted by The Asahi Shimbun said they did not want to host the intermediate storage facility.
Another reason that municipalities have not picked sites for temporary storage of the contaminated soil is opposition from residents.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
21/09 Actions speak louder than words over cold shutdown goal for Fukushima nuclear reactors
In this photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, and released Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co., a giant panel is lifted up by a crane to build a tent to cover Unit 1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
Achieving a "cold shutdown" of a nuclear reactor is not difficult as long as the reactor is not broken. A cold shutdown is defined by experts as a situation in which nuclear reactors whose operations are suspended are being stably cooled down and the temperatures in them are kept below 100 degrees Celsius.
However, it is no easy task to achieve a cold shutdown at the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant where fuel has melted and holes have developed in damaged reactors.
Goshi Hosono, state minister for the prevention of nuclear accidents, told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) annual general meeting under way in Vienna that Tokyo will do its best to achieve a cold shutdown of the stricken reactors at the plant by the end of this year. His remark suggests that the government intends to bring forward its target of achieving a stable cool-down of the troubled reactors and of substantially reducing the amount of radioactive substances released from the plant by January 2012.
01/10 Disaster-experienced Niigata throws lifeline for Fukushima evacuees
2011/10/01
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Wataru Suenaga and Aoi Suenaga, son and daughter of Masayoshi Suenaga, live together with Mariko Suenaga, their mother, in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture. (Toshiyuki Matsumoto)Thousands of residents whose lives were shattered by the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant say their flight was made much easier thanks to the efficient work of government officials. Officials in Niigata Prefecture, that is.
For central government officials, those forced to evacuate their homes in Fukushima Prefecture have a quite different opinion.
Niigata Prefecture stepped up to the challenge when throngs of residents fled from the Fukushima power plant in the early stages of the crisis, housing thousands of evacuees despite the chaotic situation.
The prefecture's recent experience in dealing with two huge earthquakes proved invaluable.
On March 15, four days after the March 11 disaster, a traffic jam more than 10 kilometers long formed on Route 49 near the border between Fukushima and Niigata prefectures. The 241-km road connects Niigata city and Iwaki, the largest city in the southern coastal area of Fukushima Prefecture.
Katsumi Tsuboi, a 46-year-old resident of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, and his family were on the congested road on their way to Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, part of a "convoy" of 18 relatives in four cars heading out of Fukushima Prefecture.
Tsuboi's house is only 3.5 km from the Fukushima plant. He told his wife: "This is it. We'll never be able to return home."
Their biggest concern was the effects of radiation exposure on their children. "Let's get out of here and live as far from the plant as we can," Tsuboi told his family.
Tsuboi recalls the traffic becoming heavier as they neared Niigata Prefecture. Seeing most of the vehicles carrying Iwaki or Fukushima license plates, he thought, "Everyone is leaving."
Tsuboi crossed the border at 6:30 p.m. on March 15 and arrived in Kashiwazaki four-and-a-half hours later.
"When we crossed the border, the rain turned into snow, making me feel we were now in Niigata Prefecture," Tsuboi said.
The previous afternoon, the Niigata prefectural government became aware of the exodus of evacuees on Route 49. All telephones at the government's disaster control headquarters began ringing, many from drivers seeking hotels and other accommodations in the prefecture.
The prefectural government added four personnel to its 10-member team handling evacuees. The team prepared sites where the evacuees could rest, consult with officials or even be checked for radiation exposure.
Team members also asked municipal governments to establish evacuation centers.
On March 16, Niigata Governor Hirohiko Izumida watched Minami-Soma Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai plea for help on TV.
"We have no relief supplies or information on the situation (at the Fukushima plant). All routes from Minami-Soma city have been cut off," Sakurai said.
The mayor's words reminded Izumida of Yamakoshi village, which was in a similar situation in the aftermath of the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake seven years ago.
Ten minutes after the TV program ended, Izumida called Sakurai, although they had never met.
"Since Niigata Prefecture experienced the Chuetsu Earthquake and the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake, we have a good sense of what the situation is like. We will be immediately prepared to accept a large number of people from Fukushima Prefecture," Izumida told Sakurai.
The Niigata prefectural government had already started asking municipal governments to set up evacuation centers. Within one day, 10 of the 30 municipalities in the prefecture and the prefectural government were ready to receive about 3,000 evacuees.
On March 18, 26 municipalities opened 64 evacuation centers. The next day, the prefecture accepted 10,574 evacuees.
Teruhiko Matsuoka, vice manager of the prefectural government's residents' life and environment division, stressed the importance of lessons learned from the two earthquakes in Niigata Prefecture.
"Every municipality can open evacuation centers in two hours," said Matsuoka, who led the evacuation response team at the disaster control headquarters until the end of March.
Late on March 16, the Minami-Soma government sent more than 200 evacuees in six buses to Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture.
Sakurai criticized the system that forced municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture to find evacuation sites on their own if given evacuation orders by the central government.
"The central government is so irresponsible for the evacuation orders it issues," the mayor said. "It should at least specify where to evacuate to."
Sakurai said, "(One phone call from Niigata) was our real savior, considering we were in an extremely chaotic situation."
In May, Akira Shishido, a 76-year-old evacuee from Minami-Soma who temporarily stayed in a gymnasium in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, visited an earthquake rebuilding museum in an area that used to be Yamakoshi. The village was incorporated into Nagaoka city in 2005.
When the 2004 earthquake hit the prefecture, all Yamakoshi villagers left the town.
Photographs exhibited at the museum showed houses buried under sand and mud in the Kogomo area. As Shishido read a statement at the entrance of the museum, tears welled in his eyes.
"Cry as much as you want. Then smile," the statement read. "There is a way you can open up brighter future. I was just like you. Everyone is waiting for your smile." That was words from a woman in the village.
Shortly after the Chuetsu Earthquake, the slogan "Let's return to Yamakoshi!" spread in the area.
"With the slogan in place, local residents managed to come through the challenging times as evacuees," said Tamio Mori, mayor of Nagaoka, who serves as acting chairman of a discussion group of the government reconstruction panel.
"It is important for the central government to set goals (on evacuation plans) right away. Otherwise more people will lose motivation (to return home) and will feel isolated," Mori said.
Haruji Matsui, the head of the area's community, invited Shishido and other evacuees from Minami-Soma to participate in rice planting.
"I thought it may help them relax and get to feel a little better," Matsui said.
Even after Shishido retuned to Minami-Soma at the end of May, Shishido still keeps in touch with Matsui by calling once a week. In early August, Shishido grumbled to Matsui, "I was going to fight hard to rebuild my hometown, but I have hardly seen any children here, and most stores remain closed. I don't know how much longer I can hang in here."
Matsui told him, "It's been only 150 days (since the May 11 disaster). It took us seven years to get to this point (after the Chuetsu Earthquake). You will see signs of recovery if you continue working for your hometown."
About 6,500 evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture still live in public housing and rental houses in Niigata Prefecture.
(This article was written by Kohei Tomida and Seiji Kanda.)
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