explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant damaged by earthquake pollutant released a cloud of radiation that reached the city of Tokyo, bringing dangerous level of radioactivity in the archipelago.
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Europe Given this situation described as "out of control" and "apocalyptic" , Japan's atomic safety depends on 50 technicians and firefighters who were fighting against time to prevent a new radioactive leak at the plant in Fukushima I Meanwhile, France rose to 6 atomic alarm in Japan ( on a scale where 7 is the maximum rate achieved by Chernobyl only), see video. Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, called on the inhabitants within a radius of 30 km around the plant, a population of 140,000 people, who remain in their homes, amid the most serious nuclear crisis since the disaster of Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986. "The possibility of increased radiation leakage is increasing," said a somber Kan in a speech to the nation.
The radioactivity reached alarming levels around the plant in Fukushima I. "We speak now of exposure to radiation that can endanger human health" , said spokesman Yukio Edan.
In central parts of the radiation was measured of 400 millisievert, a value that exceeds the limit for a year 400 times.
Reactor 3. Unit is considered the riskiest of the plant, as it contains plutonium rather than uranium. Has affected the structure of the building and damage to the suppression pool. Army helicopters trying to spray water to cool the unit overheated nuclear fuel rods. Reactor 4. He suffered two fires in 24 hours. One of the reactors is more complicated. The Japanese government tries to cool the unit via a tanker truck that pumps water into the reactor pool. Some 200,000 people
located within the 20-kilometer radius around the nuclear center were evacuated yesterday and today and the authorities asked who reside between the radii of 20 and 30 kilometers around the site to stay in their homes.
Amano, who will travel tomorrow to Japan with a small group of specialists, said today that "is not the time to say that things are out of control, when operators are working around the clock to stabilize the situation" and seemed encouraging that could rise from 50 to 180 the number of workers who entered the plant to try to stabilize it, "samurai technology are" , told a reporter, mixing Japanese tradition with the desperate struggle to cool the reactors.
These 50 workers are exposed not only to dangerously high levels of radiation that is fired from the damaged reactor of the nuclear plant, but also the risk of explosions on the ground and therefore the Japanese public now considers heroes "of Fukushima's 50." cooling systems of the plant have been neutralized due to the earthquake and tsunami that devastated much of northern Japan
With each hour that passes it becomes clear that the authorities were left without resources to stem the tragedy, to which added Yesterday a heavy snowfall in the area most affected by the quake. There is no pause in the punishment that is falling on the geography and society.
But the world is divided between those who believe and those who do not. And the Japanese society seems to be hopelessly in the first band because, even with everything against them, he believes.
"I have the nerve to misery" , says an Australian returning home. She may leave, but there are millions who have no where and, before that, no how, no gasoline, power outages undermine the train services and roads in the area most affected are, as their streets impassable. For millions of people, the situation is like a huge trap that were shut. The scene is so confusing that not even hinted that as good news for long stays and for this condition, the researchers said that the Japanese authorities "are not giving accurate and timely information" about what happens in the complex Fukushima nuclear.
is much talk of nuclear explosions but did not mean a "nuclear explosion", and it exploded is the accumulation of hydrogen and oxygen in the containment building due to the dissociation of water vapor at high temperature. This is unlikely unlike the explosion in Hiroshima that requires a complex process involving enriched uranium for the reactor case, having no critical mass of fissile material. Nor is it the case of Chernobyl accident was the most serious pollution levels. Instead use 239 as the radioactive isotope plutonium for atomic bombs is of tremendous toxicity and one gram of that element serves to cause cancer in one million people and its radioactivity remains almost 250,000 years. Without adequate protection
some electromagnetic radiation and gamma rays with atomic nuclei fragment can penetrate living organisms by destroying or altering their genetic cells.
The Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, again warned that the central Fukushima I should be dismantled, while increasing international pressure to broaden the scope of evacuation, after high levels of radiation registered at 40 miles by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) .
Meanwhile, leakage of radioactivity are unstoppable. In the water samples collected sea 300 meters south of the plant, the radioactive iodine level was 4385 times higher than legal, TEPCO said.
For its part, the IAEA said that radiation levels measured in the population of Iitate, 40 miles from the center of Fukushima I, exceed recommended levels.
The environmental group Greenpeace has been warning for days that Iitate population, especially children and pregnant women, should leave the place. "The IAEA has informed us that the radiation level in the soil exceeded the limits set by it and asked us to monitor the situation based on this information" said Japan's chief of staff, Yukio Edan.
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