Friday, March 11, 2011

Earthquake in Japan, off 11 nuclear power plants

The government of Japan has decided to declare an emergency on nuclear energy. The measure was announced in the case of radioactive leaks from nuclear plants or failures in the cooling system. This would not have occurred but the level of fear is high and the level of radiation at the 'number one nuclear power plant in Fukushima is on the rise.

The eleven central atom 'next to the disaster areas have been closed then, half of them due to lock automatically controlled. The IAEA, the International Agency for Atomic Energy, has assured that the extinguishing operations were completed successfully and safely and that the installation of Onagawa was extinguished a fire in a turbine.

Around one central, that of Fukushima prefecture in the same name, but the authorities have ordered the evacuation of about two thousand people living within 2 km from the central UN agency has announced that it was informed by the government of Tokyo, who also denied any leak of radioactivity, the fact that the level of alert in the area has been further increased.

More generally has been declared a state of nuclear emergency, but said the Prime Minister Naoto Kan, only to allow a quicker adoption of interim measures as appropriate. In nuclear power plants' safety systems are automatically turned off. And so it happened in Japan. Only one in this mechanism did not work in a workmanlike manner.

" Thus, Paul Clement, a researcher at Enea, explains the operation of nuclear plants. About risks, "it is too early to draw conclusions, but from the news we get there should be no radioactive leaks. The situation seems to be under control. " And so Enea will escape any doubt about a possible effect of Chernobyl: "The situation is completely different, certainly more limited and under control." But pending further checks, the researcher concludes, "it is prudent to evacuate residents near the areas at risk." What is worrying the Japanese authorities are still aftershocks, which could be violent than it was to this morning.

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