ALERTS!!!!

“The number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard—and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby—who may be born long after we are gone—should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.”

John F. Kennedy, July 26th, 1963

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Disaster debris trains make final run

From: The Japan Times

The cargo trains dedicated to bringing disaster debris from Tohoku to Tokyo ended operations Monday because the volume of the rubble has been substantially reduced two years and 10 months after a massive offshore earthquake and tsunami wrecked its Pacific coastline in March 2011.
The last such train, carrying debris from Rikuzentakata and Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, arrived at a cargo terminal in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward on Monday morning. The containers were then put onto trucks.
The trains had been making runs nearly daily since September 2012, when the rubble from cleanup efforts started to get out of hand, said officials from Japan Freight Railway Co., one of the seven companies in the Japan Railways Group.
Efforts to get outside help with the disposal work were hampered by radiation contamination fears from the triple meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s neglected Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Thanks for your comments. In order to eliminate spam all comments are moderated. Comments will only be edited if they contain expletives or attacks on another person. All viewpoints are welcome.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)