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March 11, 2011 by Gary Price

Japan–Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear Energy Resources

March 11, 2011 by Gary Price

We will continue to update this collection as new resource are discovered and/or events warrant.
UPDATE (3/18/2011):
Publications
Nature Magazine Magazine
Scientific American
World Nuclear News
Organizations
Center for International Disaster Information
USAID
Business
GE Reports (General Electric)
UPDATE (3/15/2011): Japan: Earthquake and Tsunami – Mar 2011
From ReliefWeb, UN Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Maps, Updates, and a Large List of Reports About How Various Countries/Organizations are Helping and what News Organizations are Reporting
UPDATE (3/13/2011): Insurance Information Institute — Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunamis: Resource Page
UPDATE (3/13/2011): Stratfor Global Intelligence — The Japanese Disaster: Full Coverage
UPDATE (3/13/2011): NASA Satellite Image of Flooding
UPDATE (3/12/2011): Digital Globe is making a five page (PDF) “First Look” damage analysis (unclassified) report available.

DigitalGlobe’s FirstLook imagery service provides a before and after imagery-based perspective of the aftermath of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan’s coast on March 11, 2011. This prototype FirstWatch imagery report provides an initial imagery and geospatially-based assessment of the damage seen at the two Fukushima nuclear power plants (Fukushima Dai-ichi; Fukushima Dai-ni) and in Sendai, a port city in northeastern Japan. Imagery collected on March 12, 2011 reveals widespread destruction including evidence of collapsed structures, extensive debris, massive flooding and damage to key infrastructure caused by the earthquake and the tsunami.

General
Reuters AlertNet (Pictures, Video, and more)
Fast Sheet: Japan and Earthquakes
Fact Sheet: Aid and Rescue Offers for Japan Quake
Reuters: Live Blog
Hat Tip: Don Reisinger (CNET)
Government(s)/NGOs
Embassy of the United States — Tokyo, Japan: Fact Sheet on the Current Situation
U.S. State Department Travel Alert: Japan
Countermeasures for 2011 Tohoku district – off the Pacific Ocean Earthquake (Prime Minster of Japan and His Cabinet)
Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Offer of assistance from foreign countries and regions (Tohoku Pacific Earthquake)
Nuclear Energy Safety Institute (NESI)
U.S. Department of Energy and international partners.
Lists and Maps
The DigitalGlobe Web Site and the Google Earth Blog are making NEW satellite imagery available.
The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (U. of Texas at Austin) is Compiling a Collection of Maps and GIS Data
+ Worldwide: Maps of Nuclear Reactor Locations (INES)
Resources Include:

2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (via OpenStreetMap)
Japan Earthquake Viewer (Texas Tech University)
Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal (Harvard)

Earthquake List and Maps for Asia (Real Time) from USGS
esri Global Incident Viewer (Hat Tip: All Points Blog)
Selected English Language Media Direct from Japan
Video: NHK World
A live video feed of NHK World Television (in English) is available.
You can also access the video feed via www.jibtv.com
Asahi Shimbun
Japan Today
Kyodo News (Limited Content for Non-Subscribers)
The Mainichi Daily News
Nikkei.com (Limited Content for Non-Subscribers)
Yomiuri Shimbun
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Nuclear Energy
Overview
Updates from World Nuclear News (WNN)
Look for updated links on WNN homepage
Country Profiles
Japan Energy Profile (Energy Information Administration, U.S.)
Some statistics are also available here.
Japan Nuclear Energy Profile (via IAEA)
IAEA
IAEA Alert Log (International Atomic Energy Agency)
IAEA Nuclear Infrastructure Bibliography (via IAEA Library)
Includes direct links to most documents.
IAEA PRIS (Power Reactor Information Database)
IAEA on Twitter
Internet Resources
IAEA Annotated Web Directory of Nuclear Resources
Organizations
Japan Atomic Industrial Forum
Updates and Operating Records of Nuclear Power Plants
Terminology
Glossary-Full Text (Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S.)
List of Terms (via Westinghouse)
Tokyo Electric Power Company
Various resources including situation updates and the 2011 “Corporate Brochure” (34 pages; PDF)
World Nuclear Association (WNA)
WNA Reactor Database

Direct to Japan Nuclear Reactor Info

Additional Resources and Resource Compilations
Information on the Japanese Earthquake and Reactors in That Region
A growing collection from the Nuclear Energy Institute (U.S.)
Japan Country Statistics (Foreign Press Center)
Japan Media Directory

Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Maps, News, Profiles, Reports

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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