On Apr 20, 2:59*am, Belba Grubb wrote:
Interesting article in the current online "Japan Times":

"Asia nuclear reactors face deadly tsunami risk" athttp://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110420a5.html

Unfortunately, it doesn't go into the level of detail that would
include mention of the coastal reactors that made it through both
quake and tsunami during the Tohoku event.

This is a current online report about tsunami monitoring in Hong Kong
Observatory, athttp://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/equake/tsunami_mon_e.htm.

I think the region's countries overall plan for a higher percentage of
the energy mix to be nuclear, and so it's a greater question for them
in terms of both risk and where to get power, but what about US
facilities that might be at a similar risk from a giant tsunami
generated by a megathrust earthquake?

Japan is a hi-society in the league of extra ordinary electrickery.
And they have few natural resources at a reasonable level that they
can plunder rather than live a more acceptable lifestyle.

So Nuking the rurals is a no-brainer.

All Japanese quakes occur with the disfunctionof anticyclones in the
northern hemisphere. The larger the quake the more anticyclones are
involved. This year will be a particularly fraught system for them.

Not only are there going to be many Highs this year, the blocking
caused or which ever way around it works, is going to ensure that
accompanying Lows will be all the more intense.

And intense Lows mean intense Highs, so the region and (is it Tonga?)
the Pacific Islands near the equator that have series in parallel with
Japanese events, will also be getting some interesting times this
summer.

I haven't yet read the latest TSR from the MetO but the one issued
Sickmess-time said it is going to be a doosey.