SAR activities are underway |
Additionally, the nuclear aspect of the event also appears to within control. Their response was as good as it gets.
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We are all aware of the incredible devastation that Japan has endured from the 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on Friday, 11 March 2011. The resultant tsunami caused the most amount of damage as evidenced by the photo link from ABC below. When you look at the pictures you can review the before and after contrast by floating your cursor over the individual pictures. The link is at the ABC site located here.
As a result of the tsunami, the Fukushima I and II nuclear power plant crisis has been the most precarious aspect to manage. The earthquake/tsunami has most likely caused the most serious known breach of a nuclear power plant. The situation remains very much a minute to minute event unfolding in real time as up to six reactors have been compromised, with the most serious being reactor 3 as it runs on highly toxic mixed uranium and plutonium oxide.
In March of 2008, I had the privilege of visiting Japan for nearly two weeks. While visiting, it quickly became evident that Japan was seemingly, very well prepared for these type of disasters, quite possibly even more so than us in America. The Japanese people are incredibly and impressively orderly as well as organized and the nation has a civil defense force that I saw in action doing drills near Hakone (not far from Tokyo). As Japan has no formal military due to Article 9 in their constitution, they rely exclusively upon what is known as the “Japan Self-Defense Forces” or JDSF. Their commensurate arm of this to our USAF is known as the Japan Air Self Defense Force, or JASDF.
Destruction at the Fukushima Nuclear Power site |
Tsunami flooding on the Sendai airport runway |
Captain Anuruddh Kumar Misra is SQ188's Health Services Officer and is a Medical Doctor.
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