Thursday, March 17, 2011

Fukushima, the alarm of the U.S. Clinton: "Reviewing the costs and liabilities from the U.S."

ROME - In the hell of Japan numbers are in despair, as the solutions. The budget has twenty thousand dead and missing, but no one can say with certainty whether this will be a figure close to reality. The fear is that it is much higher. In Fukushima, the fight against global reactor with water cannons and airplanes without a pilot.

The tragedy of the tsunami that nuclear and adds the bad weather over the area of \u200b\u200bFukushima strong winds near the coast, causing snow and increases the risk of avalanches. In Sendai, a thick a thick blanket of snow covers the sea of \u200b\u200bruins, and the temperatures drop below freezing, reducing, hour after hour, the hopes that someone is still alive under the rubble after the miracles of recent days.

The weather and lack of support lead to the extreme the population of the prefecture, already proven. The governor of Fukushima, Sato Yuhe, pours in a television interview all the rage of his fellow citizens, for emergency response authorities messy. Centers set up to house displaced people lack food, fuel and medicines.

"We lack everything," said Sato Ishinomaki, the scenario is added to the infernal anguish of inability to bury the corpses. In Japan it is traditional to cremate the dead, but the local bakery can accept up to 18 bodies a day. For now the victims are housed in school buildings converted into morgues, but the authorities think of a mass burial.

Hell plants. In the area of \u200b\u200bnuclear emergency management, the crisis involved three reactors up to now adds the status of reactor 4. There is no water in the cooling tank and the level of radiation is extremely high, "after an apparent explosion of hydrogen in this particular reactor.

U.S. experts believe that it is hard to implement other measures. According to the Commission in charge of U.S. nuclear Gregory Jaczko radiation around the reactor plant in Fukushima in Japan are "lethal". According to Jaczko, is "very difficult for workers on site closer to the reactors, the radioactivity could prove fatal in a short period of time." To extinguish fires in power, we used the water cannon.

The containers of the four reactors in emergencies are thankfully intact, but remain "silent" the other two reactors at the station, 5 and 6, which were shut down for maintenance at the time of the earthquake. The situation is different in the heart of the four reactors, where lies the crux.

Here we continue to inject seawater into the cooling circuit, to completely cover the fuel rods. Ensure refrigeration avoiding the excessive accumulation of heat is essential. Without pumping water, heat and pressure would increase to a level that does lead to the meltdown, the worst case scenario.

WikiLeaks: "The United States warned the Japanese." The IAEA, the International Agency for Atomic Energy, two years ago he warned the Japanese government about the danger that nuclear power plants in the Asian country were unable to withstand earthquakes of particular power. And 'what emerges from a confidential diplomatic cablegrams, spread from the site of Assange, whose content is taken today in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

According to documents cited by the newspaper, an executive agency of the United Nations communicated to the control authorities in Tokyo that the security measures at facilities were outdated, and that a really strong earthquake would "cast serious problems." The replica of the Nipponese authorities consisted of formal commitment to improve standards in all plants, and in particular to establish a rapid reaction center in this very Fukushima 1: the same cabled also show that the worst-case scenario considered contained an knocked in intensity up to 7 degrees on the open Richter scale, therefore, two fewer than the actual strength of the earthquake five days ago.

Finally, in the texts distributed by WikiLeaks, three years ago, a Japanese parliamentary rather well known, Taro Kono, he told U.S. diplomats that Japan had been "hidden" several nuclear accidents in the past. Clinton, "Questions on the nuclear issue also in the U.S.." The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said today that "The Japanese crisis puts the United States faced with the question of the risks and costs of nuclear energy." The declaration is part of a broader discussion on energy, but is the first time a U.S.

administration memebro expressed reservations about nuclear power. A technology that uses the environment minister has so far called "safe", while the White House continues to include the atom in the "energy options". Oettinger: "serious situation". The European Commissioner for Energy, Guenther Oettinger, defines that of Fukushima, a "catastrophe", saying that the situation does not seem under control.

"We can say that this plant is no longer controlled, there is who controls it." Yukia Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency states that "The situation of Japanese Fukushima nuclear plant is very serious, but it is out of control." Would love to leave tomorrow for Japan, accompanied by a team of experts.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has advised all U.S. citizens who are up to 80 kilometers from the center, the Pentagon gave the order to U.S. forces and pilots in the area. Emperor Akihito, "I pray for the people." The Emperor of Japan, Akihito, in a television message, said he was "deeply concerned about the current crisis, I pray for the safety of many people.

I sincerely hope that people can overcome this unfortunate moment, helping and caring of his neighbor. "

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