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Free Favourites at Four presents Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
Oct 5 2011 - 4:00am
Oct 5 2011 - 6:00pm
Location
NFB Mediatheque
150 John St (at Richmond)
TorontoCanada
Phone:
416 973 3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W
See map: Google Maps
In pre-WWII, the Asahi baseball team were heroes among the Japanese Canadians of Vancouver, winning the Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and everything changed.
Contact name:
Amanda
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Lessons from Japan's nuclear legacy
In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor's discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as high as the Geiger counters go. In other words, the radiation levels are literally off the charts. Exposure to 10,000 millisieverts for even a brief time would be fatal, with death occurring within weeks.
Japanese government underestimating risks facing Fukushima's nuclear plant
The nuclear security forum in Vienna begins, with the Japanese atomic crisis and international safety dominating the talks. A full report on the situation in the disaster-hit country is to be presented later today. It's expected to slam the Japanese government for underestimating risks facing Fukushima's nuclear plant, and for a slow response to the events. Russia Today's Sean Thomas visited a city just outside the no-go zone, where radiation levels are well above safety limits.