OSAKA (Japan) - the black smoke was lifted today by the No. 3 reactor of the plant in Fukushima. The smoke is gone then gradually decreasing, but the engineers to work in the area were still away. To make matters worse, an aftershock with a magnitude of 4.7 recorded near the central, however, did not cause further damage.
"We do not know if the smoke coming from the building that houses the turbine or the reactor containment structure," said a spokesman. Following the Agency for Nuclear Safety has reported that radiation levels around the plant remained unchanged. For several hours the electricity and lighting are back in all six reactors at risk for the consequences of the earthquake and Tsunami of 11 March.
The rector number 3 was severely damaged by an explosion: Mox is loaded with a mixture of recycled fuels and thus has a lower melting point. Meanwhile, growing alarm for food. A spokesman for the municipal government in Tokyo said today that the level of radioactive iodine in the water found in the capital, a huge urban agglomeration of 35 million, exceeding the limits set for the consumption of children.
The announcement comes after remarkably high values of radioactivity were found in 11 plants grown near the plant, located 240 kilometers north of Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has asked the prefecture of Ibaraki will suspend the distribution of milk and parsley. He then invited the Japanese to not eat some vegetables from Fukushima.
The government is now ready to give a systematic order to aid the study and an agency for the reconstruction after the earthquake modeled on the one that handled the phase following the devastation of two atomic bombs of World War II. Government spokesman Yukio Edan spoke of a "sort of system or organization" that can handle the appropriations for the post-earthquake.
The government presented a first estimate of the cost of the disaster, estimated up to 25 thousand billion yen, 220 billion euro. A bill much higher than that of the Kobe earthquake, which killed 6400 people in 1995 without causing a tsunami, which had 9.6 trillion yen in damages. The Government expects a contraction in national economic growth to 0.5% next fiscal year, which begins April 1 in Japan.
"We must keep in mind that due to the earthquake will slow down the production in many areas for a considerable period of time," said Minister of Economic Kaoru Yosano. Meanwhile, one of the designers of the Fukushima nuclear plant revealed that there was a construction defect in a reactor containment cages.
The engineer said he had helped conceal the failure in 1974 when he worked with a unit of Hitachi. The reactor, which Mitsuhiko Tanaka calls a "time bomb", was closed for maintenance on 11 March. "Who knows what would have happened if that reactor was in operation?" Said Tanaka, who has left the industry after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
"I have no idea whether it could withstand an earthquake like this." 
"We do not know if the smoke coming from the building that houses the turbine or the reactor containment structure," said a spokesman. Following the Agency for Nuclear Safety has reported that radiation levels around the plant remained unchanged. For several hours the electricity and lighting are back in all six reactors at risk for the consequences of the earthquake and Tsunami of 11 March.
The rector number 3 was severely damaged by an explosion: Mox is loaded with a mixture of recycled fuels and thus has a lower melting point. Meanwhile, growing alarm for food. A spokesman for the municipal government in Tokyo said today that the level of radioactive iodine in the water found in the capital, a huge urban agglomeration of 35 million, exceeding the limits set for the consumption of children.
The announcement comes after remarkably high values of radioactivity were found in 11 plants grown near the plant, located 240 kilometers north of Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has asked the prefecture of Ibaraki will suspend the distribution of milk and parsley. He then invited the Japanese to not eat some vegetables from Fukushima.
The government is now ready to give a systematic order to aid the study and an agency for the reconstruction after the earthquake modeled on the one that handled the phase following the devastation of two atomic bombs of World War II. Government spokesman Yukio Edan spoke of a "sort of system or organization" that can handle the appropriations for the post-earthquake.
The government presented a first estimate of the cost of the disaster, estimated up to 25 thousand billion yen, 220 billion euro. A bill much higher than that of the Kobe earthquake, which killed 6400 people in 1995 without causing a tsunami, which had 9.6 trillion yen in damages. The Government expects a contraction in national economic growth to 0.5% next fiscal year, which begins April 1 in Japan.
"We must keep in mind that due to the earthquake will slow down the production in many areas for a considerable period of time," said Minister of Economic Kaoru Yosano. Meanwhile, one of the designers of the Fukushima nuclear plant revealed that there was a construction defect in a reactor containment cages.
The engineer said he had helped conceal the failure in 1974 when he worked with a unit of Hitachi. The reactor, which Mitsuhiko Tanaka calls a "time bomb", was closed for maintenance on 11 March. "Who knows what would have happened if that reactor was in operation?" Said Tanaka, who has left the industry after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
"I have no idea whether it could withstand an earthquake like this."
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