{"id":12084,"date":"2015-09-10T07:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2015-09-10T07:23:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:23:17","slug":"170000-flee-homes-after-floods-hit-japan-fukushima-nuclear-plant-safety-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12084","title":{"rendered":"170,000 flee homes after floods hit Japan, Fukushima nuclear plant safety at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<h3 class=\"article__heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/314891-floods-japan-evacuation-thousands\/\" target=\"_blank\">170,000 flee homes after floods hit Japan, Fukushima nuclear plant safety at risk<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article__date\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2015.09\/original\/55f12fddc361885f648b4607.jpg\" alt=\"A resident is rescued by a rescue helicopter at a residential area flooded by the Kinugawa river, caused by typhoon Etau, in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 10, 2015. \u00a9 Kyodo\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<div class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\">A resident is rescued by a rescue helicopter at a residential area flooded by the Kinugawa river, caused by typhoon Etau, in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 10, 2015. \u00a9 Kyodo \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__share\"><\/div>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave homes across Japan after Tropical Typhoon Etau ripped through the country. Military helicopters plucked residents from the roofs of their homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P8dWYwUxUWg\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lashing rain pounded the country for a second day, and the Kinugawa River has burst through a flood barrier, sending a tsunami-like wall of water into Joso, about 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, AP reported. A bullet train service has reportedly been partially suspended.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utIKnDfDbJE\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The torrential downpour is also threatening safety at the Fukushima nuclear plant, closed since a 2011 disaster, as it has overwhelmed drainage pumps at the site\u2019s contaminated water treatment facility, a spokesman for operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>170,000 flee homes after floods hit Japan, Fukushima nuclear plant safety at risk A resident is rescued by a rescue helicopter at a residential area flooded by the Kinugawa river, caused by typhoon Etau, in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 10, 2015. \u00a9 Kyodo \/ Reuters Tens of thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8879,2175,340,452,1291,3425,8878],"class_list":["post-12084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-etau","tag-floods","tag-fukushima","tag-japan","tag-rt","tag-tepco","tag-typhoon-etau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12086,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions\/12086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}