Dopo-terremoto/ Come cambia (e rallenta) il Giappone
(Il Mondo, 8 aprile 2011)
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venerdì 8 aprile 2011
venerdì 25 marzo 2011
venerdì 18 marzo 2011
Una copia, un euro
Terremoto e tsunami. Uno conseguenza dell'altro. Se il primo i giapponesi sono riusciti a domarlo, il secondo rimane ancora un'onda lunga, veloce e compatta, che spazza e toglie vite, sradica case e inghiotte migliaia di persone. Niente commenti, perché sarebbero solo retorica.
Da Tokyo, città che non ho mai lasciato, sopraffatto da un forte senso di impotenza e d'accordo con la casa editrice, ho deciso che, per un anno a partire dal 20 marzo 2011, per ogni copia venduta - in qualsiasi forma - di "Giapponesi si nasce" sarà devoluto 1 euro ai terremotati giapponesi.
So che non è molto, ma è una prima iniziativa cui spero ne potranno seguire altre.
In questi momenti di estrema incertezza, purtroppo non ho ancora avuto la lucidità di scegliere l'associazione o gruppo al quale devolvere i proventi della vostra generosità. Sarà mia premura comunicarvelo quanto prima.
Per qualsiasi comunicazione, suggerimento, idea, considerazione, vi prego di scrivermi all'indirizzo paolo.soldano@giapponesisinasce.com
Paolo Soldano - Tokyo, 19 marzo 2011.
giovedì 17 marzo 2011
Embassy of the United States in Tokyo, March 17th
mmm...
[...] Despite the best efforts of responders, the situation remains very serious. Given the situation, we recommended the evacuation of American citizens to at least 50 miles, in keeping with the guidelines applied in the United States. Since the continued or increased release of windborne radioactive material cannot be ruled out, American citizens in Japan are advised to take prudent precautions against potentially dangerous exposure. As a general matter, residents in areas further from Fukushima Prefecture face less risk of significant exposure, but changing weather conditions and wind direction means that radiation levels in the future might become elevated [...].
mercoledì 16 marzo 2011
"Situation at Fukushima nuclear plant"
Ambasciata della Gran Bretagna / Tokyo
Vi invito a leggere l'intero messaggio (datato 16 marzo 2011) a questo link
Di seguito, un estratto che ahimé non ho il tempo di tradurre:
[...] Let me now talk about what would be a reasonable worst case scenario. If the Japanese fail to keep the reactors cool and fail to keep the pressure in the containment vessels at an appropriate level, you can get this, you know, the dramatic word “meltdown”. But what does that actually mean? What a meltdown involves is the basic reactor core melts, and as it melts, nuclear material will fall through to the floor of the container. There it will react with concrete and other materials … that is likely… remember this is the reasonable worst case, we don’t think anything worse is going to happen. In this reasonable worst case you get an explosion. You get some radioactive material going up to about 500 metres up into the air. Now, that’s really serious, but it’s serious again for the local area. It’s not serious for elsewhere even if you get a combination of that explosion it would only have nuclear material going in to the air up to about 500 metres. If you then couple that with the worst possible weather situation i.e. prevailing weather taking radioactive material in the direction of Greater Tokyo and you had maybe rainfall which would bring the radioactive material down do we have a problem? The answer is unequivocally no. Absolutely no issue. The problems are within 30 km of the reactor. And to give you a flavour for that, when Chernobyl had a massive fire at the graphite core, material was going up not just 500 metres but to 30,000 feet. It was lasting not for the odd hour or so but lasted months, and that was putting nuclear radioactive material up into the upper atmosphere for a very long period of time. But even in the case of Chernobyl, the exclusion zone that they had was about 30 kilometres. And in that exclusion zone, outside that, there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate people had problems from the radiation. The problems with Chernobyl were people were continuing to drink the water, continuing to eat vegetables and so on and that was where the problems came from. That’s not going to be the case here. So what I would really re-emphasise is that this is very problematic for the area and the immediate vicinity and one has to have concerns for the people working there. Beyond that 20 or 30 kilometres, it’s really not an issue for health. [...]
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