{"id":72,"date":"2013-08-07T08:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T09:58:16","slug":"is-fukushima-daiichi-emergency-over-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Is Fukushima Daiichi Emergency Over?  Breaking News."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fukushima-Panel.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74\" alt=\"Members of a Fukushima prefecture panel inspect the construction site of a shore barrier near the No.1 and No.2 reactor building of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant\" src=\"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fukushima-Panel-300x200.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fukushima-Panel-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fukushima-Panel.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports are coming in from a variety of sources that the ground water situation is getting out of hand at Fukushima Daiichi. \u00a0Some, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323420604578651713545887032.html\">including sources quoted by Wall Street Journal<\/a>, are speculating that the saturation of the ground water could cause the reactor buildings to topple. A variety of solutions are being explored including the possibility of freezing the ground water around the reactor. \u00a0CNN is today quoting a top nuclear regulatory official as saying the situation is an emergency. \u00a0See the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/06\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima\/index.html\"> story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reuters is today quoting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as saying the situation at Fukushima Daiichi is &#8220;urgent&#8221; and that the government will get involved in addressing the situation. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/07\/us-japan-fukushima-pm-idUSBRE97601K20130807\">More at Reuters<\/a>.\u02bb\u02bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are coming in from a variety of sources that the ground water situation is getting out of hand at Fukushima Daiichi. \u00a0Some, including sources quoted by Wall Street Journal, are speculating that the saturation of the ground water could cause the reactor buildings to topple. A variety of solutions are being explored including the possibility of freezing the ground water around the reactor. \u00a0CNN is today quoting a top nuclear regulatory official as saying the situation is an emergency. \u00a0See the story. Reuters is today quoting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as saying the situation at Fukushima Daiichi is &#8220;urgent&#8221; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/?p=72\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Is Fukushima Daiichi Emergency Over?  Breaking News.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}