Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
Information (the 30th Release)
As of 15:00 March 18th, 2011
http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/files/en20110318-3.pdf
Officials weigh burying facility:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Japan+rushes+cool+reactor/4452975/story.html
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 2:00 PM Mar 18th)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031803-e.html
Japan raises accident severity level to 5 in nuke crisis
TOKYO, March 18, Kyodo
Japan raised the severity level of crisis-hit reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to 5 on a 7-level international scale, the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979, Japan’s nuclear safety agency said Friday.
The provisional evaluation stands at level 5 of the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale for the plant’s No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors as their cores are believed to have partially melted and radiation leaks continue, the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.
Sorry if this is too unrelated.
Sitting silent in their classroom, the 30 children whose parents have not come to collect them after tsunami swept away their town
From the NEI link above to their blog to this link on the right sidebar:
http://depletedcranium.com/best-sources-for-information-on-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors/
Summary: Tokyo Electric Power hopes to have power lines connection reactors 1 and 2 by tomorrow morning, 3 and 4 by Sunday. Admiral Robert Williard, head of U.S. Pacific Command, confident that efforts to keep reactor cores covered in water will not be abandoned.
“U.S. nuclear officials suspect Japanese plant has a dire breach”
“U.S. government nuclear experts believe a spent fuel pool at Japan’s crippled Fukushima reactor complex has a breach in the wall or floor,”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-quake-wrapup-20110318,0,2262753.story