Nuclear Crisis Japan: desperate attempts
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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desperate attempts to avoid Fukushima escape all control 
Release Date: 16/03/2011
Release Date: 16/03/2011
Source: EFE
Country / Region : International - Japan
The leaders of the Japanese central Fukushima now working to prevent control beyond its six reactors, although photographs of the numbers 3 and 4 show significant damage in an attempt to avoid a nuclear tragedy.
Meanwhile, authorities amounted to 12,000 victims of 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and Emperor Akihito said he was "deeply concerned" about the situation and called for solidarity with the Japanese in the first televised address to the nation in its 22 year reign. spokesman Japanese Minister Yukio Edan said at a news conference that the level of radioactivity recorded so far in a radio between 20 and 30 miles from the center, which has asked residents to stay home with the windows closed, there is "an immediate risk to health."
Given the difficulties in injecting sea water into the reactor 3 from the plant itself for the high level of radiation, a helicopter of the Self Defense Forces (Army) left here from the nearby city of Sendai to throw from the air.
However, high levels of radioactivity detected in the area took in the last minute to abort the attempt, the national NHK television reported, citing defense ministry sources.
According to local agency Kyodo, it is feared that the reactor has been released radioactive steam due to damage to the containment system.
This reactor went out this morning, columns of white smoke, which, Edan, is steam from the pool where they are stored nuclear fuel rods and used.
The building that houses the reactor was damaged on Monday because of a hydrogen explosion and yesterday he found high levels of radiation nearby.
The high radiation led to the evacuation of most of the 800 workers at the plant, where they were only about fifty, now had to leave temporarily because of an new increase of radioactivity.
Some media suggest that employees could have returned to the plant, though so far the government has not confirmed.
Moreover, reactor number 4 today reported a fire and the operator, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), published a photograph of the building in which it is seen that a large portion of the outer wall has fallen.
On the fourth floor there is a hole eight feet in diameter and can be seen inside through the gap, caused another fire yesterday.
In reactors 1 and 2 nuclear fuel rods have also been wholly or partially damaged.
The reactor 5, off like the 6 but in which there are problems, the water level continues to drop.
This level had dropped 40 centimeters between 0700 and 1200 GMT on March 15, falling to 201 cm above the fuel, authorities reported.
Officials at the plant were thinking about using a diesel generator in the reactor 6 functions to provide water to reactor 5.
The speech of Emperor Akihito, 77, broadcast by public broadcaster NHK, is another example of the seriousness of the crisis in Japan, the worst since the end of World War II.
visibly sorry Akihito said that "a 9 earthquake never happened in Japan," adding: "I pray that you save the greatest number" of people.
The emperor asked the Japanese people do not give up at this time of crisis "care for one another."
Nipponese authorities today raised the death toll 3,771 and the 8,181 missing, although the final balance of casualties may increase even in some municipalities of the provinces most affected, and Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, where thousands of people still not been located.
About 100,000 Japanese military, aided by foreign volunteers in rescue specialists, combing the devastated area where they have been rescued some 26,000 survivors.
Nearly 80,000 buildings and houses were destroyed and more than half a million evacuees living in temporary shelters about 2,500, many of whom have no running water or electricity.
Rescuers battling the constant aftershocks.
An earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Richter scale rocked at 12.52 local time (3.52 GMT) on the east coast of Chiba and was clearly in nearby Tokyo.
Last night, another earthquake of 6 degrees occurred southwest of Tokyo, with its epicenter located in the province of Shizuoka, and was also felt in Tokyo.
Since 9 earthquake last Friday there have been over 200 aftershocks.
More Information:
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