More water leaks have been found at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company told reporters on Monday morning that it has discovered 2 additional water leaks at the nuclear plant.
This comes after it was announced on Sunday that nearly 8 tons of water was found to have leaked in 14 locations at the plant.
One of the 2 new findings involves about 30 liters of water that has leaked from a device that is removing salt from contaminated water. The other leak is from a valve of a pipe that is injecting water into a reactor.
TEPCO says leaked water has neither spilled out of the plant, nor flowed into the sea.
The utility firm is trying to determine whether water in some of the pipes froze and cracked the pipes, or loosened the pipes' connections.
It plans to quickly implement preventive measures, including carrying out more patrols early in the morning and wrapping insulation around the pipes and other equipment.
The temperature on Monday morning around the plant dropped to minus 8.7 degrees Celsius.
2012年1月30日月曜日
40% of Japanese to be over 65 years old in 2060
A newly-released report predicts that Japan's population will shrink by about 40 million in the next 50 years while about 40 percent of the people will be aged 65 or older.
The report on Japan's expected demographic trends through 2060 was compiled by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.
It says Japan's population will fall below 100 million in 2048 from the 2010 figure of 128 million. In 2060, it says the population will drop to 86 million.
It also says the average life expectancy is likely to expand further to 84.19 for men and 90.93 for women.
The report says the average number of babies born per woman will be 1.35 in 2060. That's slightly up from the previous estimate 6 yeas ago.
The institute says this is because more women who have held off having children are expected to give birth in their late 30's.
It predicts the number of people between the ages of 15 to 64 years will fall by nearly 50 percent to 44 million in 2060.
The previous estimate showed the proportion of the population aged 65 or older will reach 40 percent in 2052.
The speed of aging is expected to slow a little.
The institute says with the aging population and lower birth rates, the decrease in population will continue.
The report on Japan's expected demographic trends through 2060 was compiled by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.
It says Japan's population will fall below 100 million in 2048 from the 2010 figure of 128 million. In 2060, it says the population will drop to 86 million.
It also says the average life expectancy is likely to expand further to 84.19 for men and 90.93 for women.
The report says the average number of babies born per woman will be 1.35 in 2060. That's slightly up from the previous estimate 6 yeas ago.
The institute says this is because more women who have held off having children are expected to give birth in their late 30's.
It predicts the number of people between the ages of 15 to 64 years will fall by nearly 50 percent to 44 million in 2060.
The previous estimate showed the proportion of the population aged 65 or older will reach 40 percent in 2052.
The speed of aging is expected to slow a little.
The institute says with the aging population and lower birth rates, the decrease in population will continue.
2012年1月16日月曜日
Japan to name 39 uninhabited isles
Japan plans to give official names to 39 uninhabited islands that serve as the basis for the boundary of the country's exclusive economic zone, or EEZ.
The plan emerged after the government found that 7 islands around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea remain nameless in official documents.
In 2010 a Chinese trawler collided with two Japan Coast Guard patrol ships in Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands.
The Japanese government says it plans to strengthen control of the key islands by officially naming them. The step is also designed to clearly demonstrate Japan's EEZ border to other nations and at home.
The government is asking local authorities what the islands are called in their areas.
It plans to decide the names and put them on maps and sea charts by the end of March after consulting agencies concerned.
Of Japan's more than 6,000 remote islands, most are uninhabited. Some have no agreed upon names.
The plan emerged after the government found that 7 islands around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea remain nameless in official documents.
In 2010 a Chinese trawler collided with two Japan Coast Guard patrol ships in Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands.
The Japanese government says it plans to strengthen control of the key islands by officially naming them. The step is also designed to clearly demonstrate Japan's EEZ border to other nations and at home.
The government is asking local authorities what the islands are called in their areas.
It plans to decide the names and put them on maps and sea charts by the end of March after consulting agencies concerned.
Of Japan's more than 6,000 remote islands, most are uninhabited. Some have no agreed upon names.
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