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SAM077 G5 into Stuttgart
AF2 on final into JBA
RCAF OYS16F C-130J Hercules over south eastern Russia.
Been a few of these lately, RCAF and USAF. Not visible for long
North Korea says it has intensified efforts to block virus
North Korea is intensifying efforts to prevent the spread of a new virus from China into the isolated country by blocking tourists, reducing flights and mobilizing more screening efforts, a health official said Thursday.
Kim Dong Gun, a director from the North’s Health Ministry, told Associated Press Television News the North has taken “strong preventative measures so as not to allow this virus come into our homeland.”
Kim said the country’s anti-epidemic headquarters has strengthened inspections at borders, harbors and airports, while health workers are “exerting all their efforts to find out, segregate and cure any patients and any suspected patients.”
Local governments under the guidance of the central public health committee "are devoting all their energies to block the spread of the novel coronavirus,” Kim said.
North Korea has yet to report any illnesses from the new type of coronavirus that was first detected last month in neighboring China. It has sickened thousands, most of them China, but South Korea has reported six cases.
Pedestrians and children walking on Pyongyang's streets were wearing face masks. Doctors at the capital's No. 3 Hospital discussed news about the outbreak in China and other countries.
Also on Thursday, South Korea said the Koreas have agreed to suspend operations of their liaison office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong until the outbreak is controlled. Dozens of South Korean officials returned home Thursday evening.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said emergency anti-epidemic headquarters have been established in Pyongyang and elsewhere and said the North will maintain an emergency alert status until the risk of infections disappear. The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper recently called the fight against the virus a matter of "national existence."
North Korea’s state media has been increasing its coverage of the outbreak as it grew in number and beyond the epicenter. Before the Lunar New Year holiday, the North began telling foreign embassies and tour operators it had planned strengthened travel controls and quarantine measures.
All tourism to North Korea has virtually stopped, while travelers with essential reasons to enter the country can expect a month in quarantine. Flights from Pyongyang to Beijing and Vladivostok have been reduced to a minimum.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202001310016.html
Japan ministry recommends releasing Fukushima water into ocean
TOKYO (Kyodo) – Japan's industry ministry on Friday recommended releasing treated radioactive water from a crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, saying it would be preferable to releasing it into the atmosphere.
The government has been exploring ways to dispose of more than 1 million tons of water used to cool the melted-down cores at, and groundwater near, the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, as the complex is running out of storage space.
The water is being treated using an advanced liquid processing system, or ALPS, before being stored in tanks at the plant. But this does not remove tritium and has been found to leave small amounts of other radioactive materials.
Local fishermen have voiced strong opposition to releasing the water into the ocean, saying consumers will be afraid to buy seafood caught in the area.
Still, the government is leaning toward either dumping the water into the Pacific Ocean, or boiling it and releasing the vapor into the atmosphere.
Both are "realistic options," the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told a government subcommittee on Friday, adding that releasing the water into the ocean would make it easier to monitor radiation levels.
This method could be carried out "with more certainty," it said, because the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., had experience in it, albeit on a much smaller scale, before a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered a triple meltdown at the plant in March 2011.
The ministry has said the health effect of either approach would be minimal, estimating it would result in between 0.052 and 0.62 microsievert annually for a discharge into the ocean, and 1.3 microsieverts if released into the atmosphere. That compares with the 2,100 microsieverts people are exposed to daily.
Other methods the subcommittee has considered include injecting the water deep into the ground, solidifying and burying it, and extracting only the hydrogen and releasing it into the atmosphere.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200131/p2g/00m/0na/063000c
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