GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Large fuel fire breaks out at Miami International Airport

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SOURCE: The Miami Herald

24March2011 5:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Miami-Dade firefighters were battling a major fire at Miami International Airport early Thursday.

Drivers could see smoke billowing from the airport as they drove on nearby State Road 836 shortly after 11 p.m. The fire started Wednesday night and raged into early Thursday morning.

The fire was at a fuel tank farm in the southeast corner of the airport, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesman Capt. Eric Baum said. The fire was not near runways or the terminals, he said.

An airport spokeswoman said that, as of 1 a.m., only one flight had been delayed. (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Heritage Foundation Report: 'Reviewing America’s Disaster Preparedness'

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SOURCE: The Heritage Foundation

16March2011 11:08pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: As Americans watch with horror, the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan continues to climb into the thousands. Recent experience has taught the U.S. the crippling effects of disasters—from earthquakes to hurricanes, floods, fires, and oil spills. It is vital that U.S. disaster preparedness undergo constant evaluation and that key changes are made before the country faces another incident, whether natural or man-made.

Ongoing Heritage Foundation research has identified key areas where disaster preparedness should be reviewed and improved. Success must include the private sector, federal agencies, state and local resources, and the military.

Perhaps one of the most significant lessons learned from recent U.S. disasters is that the private sector is a critical actor in the homeland security enterprise. Time and again, from the attacks of September 11 to Hurricane Katrina—and even recently with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—the private sector has been at the forefront of relief and recovery operations. The private sector’s indispensable role begs for the federal government to form solid bonds with industry. These relationships not only promote security innovations but allow these new developments to be plugged directly into disaster response efforts. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Disaster Preparedness: FedHealth offers assistance and information on potential radiation exposure

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SOURCE: FedHealth

13March2011 1:22pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: ARIZONA - FedHealth owner, and co-author of "IT'S A DISASTER!", Janet Liebsch, released a preventative letter today explaiing, "I'm not trying to be an alarmist but .. sending this as fyi in case things go south with Japanese reactors. Hopefully they can contain everything since structures are much more modern than Chernobyl. But sharing this with our friends and family in case you have loved ones on west coast. Hopefully you / they have KI and radiation detection units cuz if reactors blow and release .. well, again - let’s just hope it all stays contained.

And remember .. TIME, DISTANCE and SHIELDING are important during any type of radiological disaster. And radioactive materials decay rapidly .. per 7/10 rule, for every sevenfold increase in time, there is a tenfold decrease in radiation rate. For example, 75 Rems (rad) would drop to 7.5 Rems after 7 hours. Best thing you can do IF this even happens is .. stay inside a structure (don’t be running around outdoors) and stay put for hours or a day or 2 until it decays. Again .. that’s ONLY if things go bad.

If you don’t have our book handy, download our nuclear power plant accident tips in PDF here  .. and learn how to build an expedient shelter here. (Also attached both here in PDF.) If you don’t have access to KI, get a bottle of iodine from a local pharmacy so it’s on shelf .. then only IF a plume is coming .. wipe a swipe on your abdomen. It’ll stain your skin but it can fill up your thyroid with good iodine so it doesn’t absorb bad stuff. Children (including unborn) are most susceptible since their thyroids are still active. Unfortunately we don’t have suggestions for cesium yet (other than Prussian blue but don’t know how to get any) .. but working on finding options / alternatives.

Also please realize we’re talking potential semi-low Rad levels for western US and Canada per map (although Aleutian Islands may experience higher Rads)."

Per japan.org …

0-50 rads (Rems)– No obvious short-term effects

80-120 rads– You have a 10% chance of vomiting and experiencing nausia for a few days

130 -170 rads– You have a 25% chance of vomiting and contracting other symptoms

180-220 rads– You have a 50% chance of vomiting and having other severe physical effects

270-330 rads– 20% chance of death in 6 weeks, or you will recover in a few months.

400-500 rads - 50% chance of death

550-750 rads - Nausia within a few hours ; no survivors

> 1000 rads - immediate incapacitation and death within a week or less.

^{(Source: Japan.org)}

She asks people not to panic or be overly-obsessed with keeping track of the news, but to "stay current on events and try to educate yourself and others as best as possible."

Japan’s earthquake page is http://www.japan.org  and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is http://www.nrc.gov , not to mention the local and national media who will be monitoring this event as it progresses.

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: NISA reports: reactor core meltdown caused explosion

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SOURCE: Nikkei.com

12March2011 5:29pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: TOKYO --The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Saturday afternoon the explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core.

The same day, Tokyo Electric Power Co. which runs the plant, began to flood the damaged reactor with seawater to cool it down, resorting to measures that could rust the reactor and force the utility to scrap it.

Cesium and iodine, by-products of nuclear fission, were detected around the plant, which would make the explosion the worst accident in the roughly 50-year history of Japanese nuclear power generation.

An explosion was heard near the plant's No. 1 reactor about 3:30 p.m. and plumes of white smoke went up 10 minutes later. The ceiling of the building housing the reactor collapsed, according to information obtained by Fukushima prefectural authorities. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Explosion at Japans nuclear plant, disaster toll rises

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SOURCE: Daily Herald

12March2011 10:25amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: IWAKI, Japan — An explosion at a nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, but a radiation leak was decreasing despite fears of a meltdown from damage caused by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, officials said.

Government spokesman Yukio Edano said the explosion destroyed the exterior walls of the building where the reactor is placed, but not the actual metal housing enveloping the reactor.

That was welcome news for a country suffering from Friday's double disaster that pulverized the northeastern coast, leaving at least 574 people dead by official count.

The scale of destruction was not yet known, but there were grim signs that the death toll could soar. One report said four whole trains had disappeared Friday and still not been located. Local media reports said at least 1,300 people may have been killed.

Edano said the radiation around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had not risen after the blast, but had in fact decreased. He did not say why that was so.

Officials have not given specific radiation readings for the area, though they said they were elevated before the blast: At one point, the plant was releasing each hour the amount of radiation a person normally absorbs from the environment each year. (read full report)

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Japan: Hundreds Killed by Massive Tsunami After 8.9-Magnitude Quake

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SOURCE: Fox News

11March2011 11:35pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: TOKYO –  Japan's northeastern coast was a swampy wasteland of broken houses, overturned cars, sludge and dirty water Saturday as the nation awoke to the devastating aftermath of one of its greatest disasters, a powerful tsunami created by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday afternoon local time, according to the US Geological Survey.

The death toll from Friday's massive magnitude 8.9 in Japan's quake stood at more than 200, but an untold number of bodies were believed to be lying in the rubble and debris, and Japanese were bracing for more bad news as authorities tried to reach the hardest-hit areas.

Aerial footage showed military helicopters lifting people on rescue tethers from rooftops and partially submerged buildings surrounded by water and debris. At one school, a large white "SOS" had been spelled out in English.

The earthquake that struck off the northeastern shore was the biggest recorded quake ever to hit Japan. It ranked as the fifth-largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, scientists said. (read full report)

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Tokyo nuclear reactor releases excessive radiation after eartquake

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SOURCE: NewsMax

11March2011 11:19pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: News releases posted on the Tokyo Electric Power company’s website detailing efforts to cool down the nuclear power core at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station state there have been elevated radiation levels detected in the vicinity.

For most of the day Friday, Japanese officials were maintaining there had been no release of radiation. Officials announced late Friday afternoon they might vent moderately radioactive vapor from a containment vessel, in order to ease pressure in one of the plant’s containment vessels. Some 3,000 residents have been evacuated from nearby neighborhoods.

But a news release posted on the TEPCO site at 7 a.m. Tokyo time stated: “Measurement of radioactive material (Iodine, etc.) by monitoring car indicates increasing value compared to normal level. One of the monitoring posts is also indicating higher than normal level. We will continue monitoring discharge of radioactive material from exhaust stack and discharge canal, etc.” (read full report)

 

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