| 木造住宅 | もくぞうじゅうたく | homes built of wood |
| 中層建物 | ちゅうそうたてもの | a mid-sized high rise building |
| 空港 | くうこう | airport |
| 港 | みなと | port |
| 港周辺 | みなとしゅうへん | the area around the port |
| 倒壊した家 | とうかいしたいえ | collapsed houses |
| 倒壊家屋 | とうかいかおく | collapsed houses |
| 建物の屋根 | たてもののやね | the roofs of buildings |
| 瓦礫 | がれき | tiles and pebbles, debris |
| 計画停電 | けいかくていでん | planned power outage | |
| 核燃料 | かくねんりょう | nuclear fuel | Link |
| 核分裂 | かくぶんれつ | atomic fission | Link |
| 電力不足 | でんりょくぶそく | lack of power | |
| 停電 | ていでん | power outage | |
| 発電所 | はつでんしょ | power plant | |
| 原発 | げんはつ | nuclear power plant | |
| 東京電力福島第１原子力発電所１号機 | とうきょうでんりょくふくしまだいいちげんしりょくはつでんしょいちごうき | TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant No. 1 reactor | |
| 燃料棒 | ねんりょうぼう | fuel rod (for a nuclear power plant) | |
| 揚水発電所 | ようすいはつでんしょ | hydraulic power plant | |
| 電力会社 | でんりょくがいしゃ | power company | |
| 節電 | せつでん | energy conservation, to conserve energy | |
| 供給不足 | きょうきゅうぶそく | insufficient supply | |
| 原子炉を冷やす機能 | げんしろをひやすきのう | the function to cool a nuclear reactor | |
| 格納容器 | かくのうようき | storage container (refers to the steel container housing the reactor) | |
| 容器を海水で冷やす | ようきをかいすいでひやす | cool the container with seawater | |
| 放射線 | ほうしゃせん | radiation (radioactive rays) | |
| 放射能 | ほうしゃのう | radioactivity | |
| 放射生物質 | ほうしゃせいぶっしつ | radioactive materials | |
| 発電施設 | はつでんしせつ | power plant facilities |
| 孤立 | こりつ | to be isolated | Link |
| 安否確認 | あんぴかくにん | confirmation of safety | Link |
| 安否不明 | あんぴふめい | unknown whether (they are) safe or not | |
| 安否確認が進まず | あんぴかくにんがすすまず | making no progress in regards to confirming the safety of… | |
| 炉心溶融 | ろしんようゆう | core meltdown | Link |
| 除染 | じょせん | decontaminate | |
| 爆発 | ばくはつ | explosion | |
| 爆発音 | ばくはつおん | sound of an explosion | |
| 水素爆発 | すいそばくはつ | hydrogen explosion | |
| 壊滅的な被害 | かいめつてきなひがい | devastating damage | |
| 救助ヘリコプター | きゅうじょヘリコプター | rescue helicopter | |
| 救助を待っている | きゅうじょをまっている | waiting to be rescued | |
| 被災者 | ひさいしゃ | victims/sufferers | |
| 死者 | ししゃ | casualties | |
| 被害 | ひがい | damage | |
| 不明 | ふめい | unclear (missing people) 死者・不明1400人超 (more than 1,400 dead or missing) | |
| 行方不明者 | ゆくえふめいしゃ | missing persons | |
| 負傷 | ふしょう | injured | |
| 軽傷者 | けいしょうしゃ | people with light injuries | |
| 遺体 | いたい | dead bodies / corpses | |
| 被曝 | ひばく | to be exposed to radiation | |
| 避難範囲 | ひなんはんい | evacuation area | |
| 避難住民 | ひなんじゅうみん | evacuated residents | |
| 救出活動 | きゅうしゅつかつどう | rescue operations |
| 震度 | しんど | The strength of an earthquake (shindo, Japanese scale 0 to 7) | |
| 震度６弱 | しんどろくじゃく | About shindo 6 | |
| 大震災 | だいしんさい | Great earthquake | |
| マグニチュード | マグニチュード | Magnitude | |
| 震源 | しんげん | The hypocenter (of an earthquake) | |
| 揺れ | ゆれ | to shake | |
| 地震 | じしん | earthquake | |
| 余震 | よしん | aftershock | |
| 津波 | つなみ | tsunami | |
| 山崩れ | やまくずれ | landslide | |
| 炎 | ほのお | flames | |
| 白煙 | はくえん | white smoke | |
| 黒煙 | こくえん | black smoke | |
| 海水 | かいすい | seawater | |
| 海面 | かいめん | sea surface | |
| 内陸 | ないりく | inland | |
| 沿岸部 | えんがんぶ | coastal area | |
| 水没している | すいぼつしている | to be submerged in water | |
| 水没した車 | すいぼつしたくるま | submerged cars | Link |
| 乗用車 | じょうようしゃ | passenger cars (regular cars, as opposed to fire trucks, ambulances, etc.) |
| 消防車 | しょうぼうしゃ | fire truck |
| 船舶が座礁している | せんぱくがざしょうしている | ships have run aground |
| 気象庁 | きしょうちょう | Meteorological agency |
| 自衛隊 | じえいたい | Japan Self Defense Force |
| 国際原子力事象評価尺度 | こくさいげんしりょくじしょうひょうかしゃくど | International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) |
| 宮城県 | みやぎけん | Miyagi prefecture |
| 南三陸町 | みなみさんりくまち | minamisanrikumachi (In Miyagi prefecture. Devastate by the tsunami.) |
| 岩手県 | いわてけん | Iwate prefecture |
| 〜が相次いでいる | あいついでいる | blah blah is occurring over and over again | |
| 恐れがある | おそれがある | may occur (something negative) e.g., 停電が続く恐れがある the power outage may continue. | |
| 半径3キロ | はんけいさんキロ | a radius of 3 kilometers | |
| 命を落とす | いのちをおとす | to die (to lose life) | |
| 待機 | たいき | to wait | |
| 状況の把握が難航しており | じょうきょうのはあくがなんこうしており | difficult to understand the (actual) situation | Link |
| 市街地 | しがいち | urban areas | |
| 拡大する見通し | かくだいするみとおし | expected to increase/expand |
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1. ELIMINATING MEDICAID: The Budget Repair Bill includes a little-known provision that would put complete control of the state’s Medicaid program, known as BadgerCare, in the hands of the state’s ultra-conservative Health and Human Services Secretary Dennis Smith. Smith would have the authority to “to override state Medicaid laws as [he] sees fit and institute sweeping changes” including reducing benefits and limiting eligibility. Ironically, during the 1990s it was Republicans, especially former Gov. and Bush HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, who helped develop BadgerCare into one of the country’s most innovative and generous Medicaid programs. A decade later, a new generation of radical Republicans is hoping to destroy one of Wisconsin’s “success stories.”
2. POWER PLANT PRIVATIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEGLECT: The same budget bill calls for a rapid no-bid “firesale” of all state-owned power plants. One progressive blogger called the proposal “a highlight reel of all of the tomahawk dunks of neo-Gilded Age corporatism: privatization, no-bid contracts, deregulation, and naked cronyism” and suggested that the provision will open the way for large, politically connected corporations, like Koch Industries, to buy up the state’s power plants on the cheap. While it’s unclear whether corporations would be interested in buying the plants, a similar proposal was vetoed six years a go by Gov. Jim Doyle (D), who called the plan fiscally and environmentally irresponsible. Many of Wisconsin’s power plants are in violation of federal clean air regulations and desperately need to be upgraded and cleaned up — not dumped into the private sector.
3. DANGEROUS DRINKING WATER: Republican lawmakers have introduced bills in both the Senate and the House which would repeal a rule requiring municipal governments to disinfect their water. Conservatives have said that the clean water rule — which went into effect in December — is simply too expensive. Yet the rule only affects 12 percent of municipalities and the price may be worth it. In 1993, 104 people died and 400,000 fell sick when the Milwaukee water supply became infected. Even two decades later, the Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Board notes that 13 percent of acute gastro-intestinal illnesses in municipalities that don’t disinfect their water supplies are the result of dirty water. Municipalities can keep their water clean for as low as $10,000 per well — but apparently for the Wisconsin GOP that is too high a price to pay to keep citizens safe from deadly microorganisms.
4. DESTROYING WETLANDS: In January, Walker’s proposed regulatory reform bill exempted a parcel of wetland owned by a Republican donor from water quality standards. But the exemption was more than just an embarrassing giveaway to a GOP ally: environmental groups believe the bill’s special provision would actually affect the entire county, eliminating public hearings on proposed wetland development, short-circuiting approval of development projects, and disrupting the region’s water system.
5. FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY: Walker signed a bill this week requiring a 2/3 supermajority in the legislature to pass any tax increase. Republican lawmakers are now reportedly considering a constitutional amendment that would make the rule permanent. A similar constitutional amendment in California has been called the “source of misery” of that state’s crippling budget crisis and has forced lawmakers to “gut public education, slash social services and health care programs, close prisons, and lay off record numbers of public employees.” While claiming to “make a commitment to the future instead of [choosing] dire consequences for our children” Walker and GOP lawmakers are instead putting generations of Wisconsinites in a “fiscal strait-jacket.”
6. DISENFRANCHISING VOTERS: This week, Republican lawmakers moved forward on a bill that would require voters to present a photo ID from the DMV at the polls, making it significantly more difficult for the elderly, the disabled, college students, and rural residents to participate in elections. While Republican lawmakers insist the bill is necessary to prevent voter fraud, there have been almost no documented cases of fraudulent voting in the state. Instead, the Wisconsin State Journal writes, the GOP bill is going “overboard in limiting ballot access in a state proud of its long history of high participation in elections.”
7. CUTTING JOBS, LOSING THE FUTURE: Last fall, Walker killed an $810 billion federally funded high-speed rail project, forcing the Transportation Department to pull its funding. Walker’s decision killed 130,000 expected jobs and forced the Spanish company Talgo to close its Milwaukee factory and layoff its 40 person staff. A spokeswoman for the company told The Daily Reporter that “the state’s decision to back away from the high-speed rail project sends a terrible message to businesses considering locating in the state.”
8. STIFLING INNOVATION: In late January, Walker introduced a bill that would ban wind-powered energy from Wisconsin and exacerbate the state’s dependence on out-of-state coal. If passed, it’s estimated that the law would immediately eliminate $1.8 billion in new wind power investments and jeopardize eleven currently proposed wind projects. After a public outcry earlier this month, Walker’s bill is (for now) dead.
9. “NAKED POWER GRAB”: Earlier this month in a party-line vote, the legislature ceded “extraordinary control” of the state’s rule-making oversight process to the governor. Walker now has complete power to draft agency rules which the legislature must then either approve or reject. The law gives Walker the power to write rules for formerly independent state agencies like the state Departments of Justice and Education — and most ominously the Government Accountability Board, the state’s ethics watchdog.
10. POLITICIZING STATE AGENCIES: A provision in Walker’s budget repair bill would convert thirty-seven state employees from civil servants to political appointees — consolidating his power over state government and expanding his power to “hire, fire and move key employees to carry out his agenda.”