Beritabali.com, Renon, Gempa susulan terus terjadi di Jepang, termasuk ancaman radiasi dari kebocoran pembangkit listrik tenaga nuklir pasca Tsunami kini menjadi kekhawatiran di Jepang.
Namun Pemerintah provinsi Bali memutuskan untuk sementara tidak akan melakukan pemulangan terhadap siswa-siswa asal Bali yang melakukan magang di Jepang.
Juru Bicara Pemerintah Provinsi Bali Ketut Teneng pada keterangannya di Renon, Senin (14/3) mengatakan pemulangan terhadap siswa-siswa Bali yang melakukan magang kerja dipandang belum perlu dilakukan karena kondisinya masih aman. Apalagi secara rata-rata siswa-siswa Bali tersebut berada jauh dari lokasi tsunami.
”Semuanya dalam keadaan baik-baik. Ini adalah magang, sampai waktunya selesai magangnya itu baru kembali. Karena kebetulan tempatnya itu ada di pegunungan dan itu tetap berjalan. Oleh karena itu pemprov barangkali tidak perlu grasa-grusu menarik karena kegiatan itu berjalan normal seperti biasanya,” papar Ketut Teneng.
Aftermath of tsunami update in Japan , March 17th. 2011
- Official death toll is 4340, but a more than 11,000 feared dead
- Several survivors pulled from the rubble after four days
- Japanese PM: "Our worst disaster since WWII"
- Crews continue to battle to prevent a nuclear meltdown
- Latest updates Twitter | Facebook
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4.25am Kyodo is reporting the US military plans to fly an unmanned plane over Fukushima, equipped with infrared sensors in an effort to gauge what is happening. An earlier attempt to douse the plant with water from a helicopter was unsuccesful after radiation levels proved too high.
4.04am IAEA secretary general Yukiya Amano said in a press conference he plans to go to Japan as early as tomorrow and urged Japan to provide better information to the agency.
"There are too many elements that we do not know yet. So it is too early for us to pass judgement on their efforts," - Yukiya Amano
He did confirm that core damage had occurred to three units at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
"The situation ... is very serious."
1.40am There is a worrying account from Australians trapped in Tokyo who are pleading for government support to leave Japan as the threat of a nuclear catastrophe looms.
A graphic showing the locations of the troubled nuclear plants in Japan.
Japan's Nuclear Power Plant Threat
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1.11am Japan's health ministry says at least 1.6 million households are still without water.1.06am Tragic news. NHK World is reporting the death toll has risen to 4340 confirmed deaths. Including 2207 in Miyagi Prefecture and 1545 in Iwate Prefecture. More than 9,000 others are still missing.
A ship is beached amongst the rubble of a village destroyed by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma. Picture: Getty Images
DO NOT ARCHIVE... WIRE: KESENNUMA, JAPAN-MARCH 16: A ship is beached amongst the rubble of a village destroyed by the devastating earthquake and tsunami March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province, Japan. The 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck offshore on March 11 at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to ten metres which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan. As the death toll continues to rise, the country is also struggling to contain a potential nuclear meltdown after the nuclear plant was seriously damaged from the quake. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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1.05am The BBC is reporting the US military has sent two fire trucks to help with fires at one of Japan's nuclear plants, but the Pentagon says it has not been asked to use its troops for the developing nuclear crisis.12.58am Kyodo news agency is now reporting water injection into spent fuel pools at No. 3 and No. 4 reactors are being undertaken as a priority. They quote the country's nuclear agency as saying the spent fuel pool at Reactor No. 3 is increasing in heat and has begun emitting steam.
12.52am Underwater telecommunications cables between Taiwan and the US have been damaged by Friday's earthquake (AFP).
12.50am The BBC has noticed an apology for an "abnormal noise" coming from the plant on the website for Fukushima plant operators TEPCO:
"We are aware of and sincerely apologize for the great distress and inconvenience this incident has caused to not just those inhabitants residing in the immediate vicinity but also society at large," - TEPCO
The website also has updates and press-releases from TEPCO.
A red flag indicating bodies are laid flaps in the wind at a devastated area in Rikuzentakata. Picture: AP
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12.35am China's Xinhua news agency is reportingthe country will donate 10,000 tonnes of diesel and 10,000 tonnes of gasoline to Japan to help counter shortages.
12.25am Thai authorities have announced they will distribute potassium iodide tablets to citizens travelling to Japan to protect against radiation from the damaged nuclear plants. Potassium iodide protects the thyroid gland against cancer by blocking absorption of radioactive iodine. Supplies in Japan have become short, and panic buying has been reported as far away as North America (AP).12.20am The Japanese PM's office has launched a new English-language Twitter account which "mainly updates the situation of the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake".
12.17am The number of Australians unaccounted for in Japan has dropped to 55 according to DFAT.
11.51pm The Guardian has this troubling article interviewing scientists about the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant. They are very concerned about the possibility of a fire in the spent fuel pools.
"The spent fuel pool in unit 4 is boiling, and once that starts you can't stop it," - Jim Riccio, a nuclear expert at Greenpeace.
"The threat is that if you boil off the water, the metal cladding on the fuel rods that is exposed to the air, and is volatile, will catch fire. That will propel the radiation even further."
Tsunami survivors' notes seeking information about their missing relatives and friends put up on the entrance of Natori City Hall in Natori. Picture: AP
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Ketut Teneng menyebutkan berdasarkan data Dinas Tenaga Kerja Bali sampai saat ini jumlah siswa asal Bali yang magang di Jepang mencapai sekitar 340 orang. Sebagian besar magang di bidang pertanian, peternakan dan pengembangan usaha kecil elektronika. (mlt)
aftermath of tsunami update in Japan , March 16, 2011
- Official death toll is 3570, but 10,000 feared dead in Myagi alone
- Two survivors pulled from the rubble after four days
- Japanese PM: "Our worst disaster since WWII"
- Crews continue to battle to prevent a nuclear meltdown
- Latest updates Twitter | Facebook
11:20am An update on the latest key developments from Japan:
- The death toll is expected to exceed 10,000, with least 3570 people confirmed dead, NHK World says
- More than 440,000 people are living in shelters and some shelters have yet to receive essential supplies
- About 850,000 households are still without electricity in near-freezing weather, ABC News reports
- A fire that broke out at Fukushima is now under control but there are still major issues at the nuclear plant
10:55am Aussie update. Almost 150 Australians are still missing following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
10:33am Interesting piece from The New York Times about how the Mark 1 nuclear reactor design of the Fukushima Daiichi plant has long been questioned by experts.
The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed at a Mark 1 nuclear reactor, the primary containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst as the fuel rods inside overheated. Dangerous radiation would spew into the environment.10.08am Story on the brave souls who are still at Fukushima Daiichi trying to stop the nuclear crisis, from The Sydney Morning Herald.
They are known as the "Fukushima 50" and two of them are missing after an explosion and fire at one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant yesterday and a new fire there today.10:00am Japanese authorities now say the fire in Fukushima Daiichi reactor No. 4 is "under control", according to AFP.
9:50am Hard to believe, but someone thought it would be funny to post on a site set up to track people missing after the Japan earthquake and tsunami that Ashley Russell's daughter, Alice Byron, was dead. She isn't, and he's not very impressed.
There are some evil people out there. Her employer told me other people had suffered the same hoax as well.9:38am Easy-to-understand interactive explaining the Japanese nuclear crisis from The New York Times. How a Reactor Shuts Down and What Happens in a Meltdown
World Markets Dive as Investors Retreat to Safety
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
The financial aftershocks from the earthquake in Japan gathered force on Tuesday as investors fled from riskier assets like stocks, oil and gold amid growing worries that the crisis could slow a global economy that only recently seemed to be getting back on its feet.
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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the opening bell on Tuesday.
The Fed’s announcement brought calm on a day of market turmoil that raised painful memories for some of 2008, when the financial crisis froze capital markets and precipitated a similar rush for safety. “This was a very scary day for global stock markets,” said Carl B. Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics.
After the roller-coaster session, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, which at one point had been down 35 points, closed down 14.52 points, or 1.12 percent, at 1,281.87. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 137.74 points, or 1.15 percent, to 11,855.42. The Nasdaq fell 33.64 points, or 1.25 percent, to 2,667.33.
On Wednesday in Tokyo, markets regained some lost ground, climbing 5 percent after the first 90 minutes of trading. But on Tuesday, the uncertainty extended to energy markets, as analysts warned that diminished growth in Japan could prompt a sharp decrease in oil demand.
“We don’t know the extent to which the post-tsunami Japan is going to grow, and whether or not there will be consequences for other countries as well,” said Chris Lafakis, an energy economist for Moody’s Analytics.
Amid the flight to safety, oil prices fell $4.01 to settle at $97.18 a barrel, while gold dropped $30.70 to $1,395.70 an ounce. The 10-year Treasury note, meanwhile, rose 14/32, to 102 22/32. The yield fell to 3.30 percent, from 3.36 percent late Monday.
The central fear is that the disaster — especially the danger of increased radiation exposure from stricken Japanese nuclear reactors — could rip a big hole in the supply lines of the world’s third largest economy and set back the global recovery.
Some of the first ripples reached the United States on Tuesday as Subaru said it was canceling all overtime at its plant in Lafayette, Ind., which builds the Outback, Legacy and Tribeca models, to reduce the chance that it will run out of some parts from Japan.
“The main economic shock is not the direct loss of business, but spillover effects in terms of damage to the power and transportation industries and disruptions to the supply chain,” said Ethan S. Harris, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “Specifically, many auto and electronics firms rely on the affected region for parts.”
As a result of the volatility, several debt offerings were postponed, while Toys “R” Us was forced to delay a planned syndicated loan.
The ultimate impact on world growth is likely to be small, however. “The quake-ravaged economy, the world’s third largest, could lower economic activity in Japan as much as one percentage point, and shave off worldwide growth 0.2 percentage point in 2011,” said Bernard Baumohl, an economist at the Economic Outlook Group.
The region affected by the quake accounts for only about 6 percent of Japanese gross domestic product, and economists calculate that the short-term effects might be eventually offset as Japan spends hundreds of billions to rebuild.
Closer to home, a temporary reduction in American exports to Japan might trim 0.1 to 0.2 of a percentage point from United States economic growth in 2011, according to Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC.
One major exporter, General Electric, which designed the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant, fell for the second day in a row, closing down 1.6 percent at $19.61. G.E. has either built or licensed 92 nuclear reactors now operating worldwide — about 20 percent of the global total, according to Michael Tetuan, a spokesman for General Electric.
But nuclear power development remains a small part of the company’s overall operation; it produces reactors in partnership with Hitachi. The business accounted for just $1 billion in revenues in 2010 — a tiny fraction of the $85 billion generated by its industrial supply business.
“Nuclear is not a major piece of the puzzle for G.E.,” said Daniel Holland, an analyst with the investment research firm Morningstar. “This doesn’t move the needle a whole bunch.”
Despite the problems in Japan, the Japanese yen strengthened, as speculation increased that big Japanese investors like pension funds and banks — Japan is the second-largest holder of United States Treasuries — would dump their overseas holdings and buy yen to return cash home.
At the same time, there were signs that investors were unwinding other trading positions. With interest rates near zero at home, Japanese investors used yen to buy Australian and Canadian dollars, as well as the Brazilian real, to invest in higher-yielding assets there. Other foreign investors placed similar bets, bullish on those countries’ growth prospects.
But as demand for the yen picks up, those currencies have weakened. The Canadian dollar fell 1.5 percent on Tuesday morning, while the Australian dollar fell around 2 percent. The Brazilian real has fallen nearly 4 percent since Friday.
Across Wall Street, traders said the initial reaction among many hedge funds and institutional investors to the Japanese crisis was to sell first and ask questions later.
“It’s definitely been risk-off since Friday,” said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist with Wall Street investment bank Jefferies & Company. “Uncertainty tends to breed a desire for safety. As it becomes easier to assess what all of the ramifications are, I suspect that will recede.”
For instance, Robin Thorn, who oversees the $1.3 billion PineBridge Global Equities mutual fund, decided on Sunday evening to cut the fund’s 9 percent position in Japanese stocks in half.
With the help of his team of more than two dozen analysts in Tokyo — many who have been sleeping in their offices — Mr. Thorn sold off companies that had exposure to nuclear-plant construction. “That turned out to be the right thing in the shorter term,” Mr. Thorn said.
But Mr. Thorn said he and his team were also looking for buying opportunities, saying he had increased the fund’s stake in companies that will play a role in Japan’s rebuilding.
And on Tuesday afternoon as Japanese American Depositary Receipts and exchange-traded funds rebounded sharply from early lows, Mr. Thorn said he expected Japanese markets to rally.
“We feel a lot of the emotional selling has been done,” Mr. Thorn said. “And it’s clear through the action of U.S.-based investors today that people are now trying to look for bargains.”
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