Does not dim the nuclear alert in Japan. Evacuated the reactor 2 for the high radioactivity released. High radiation coming from the reactor core 3 Japan Agency for Atomic Safety does not mean to raise again the level of risk for the plant in Fukushima Daiichi, so that up to 6, "serious incident" (Chernobyl was classified at level 7 ).
This after some remarks made about areas near the plant. A very high level of radioactivity was detected for the first time in pulses from Tokyo, but not for sale. Much more serious is the situation at sea surveys have shown radiation levels 1250 times higher than normal. While continuing aftershocks, the number of victims has risen to over 27 thousand people dead or missing.
The number of wounded exceeds 2,700. Meanwhile, France, like Italy, down in part on the atom. "Nuclear power plants that will not exceed the 'stress test' planned by the EU after what happened in Japan will be closed." And 'when Brussels announced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at the end of the EU summit.
18:37 - TEPCO official correction: Radiation not exceeding 10 million, but 'only' 100,000 times the norm The TEPCO has fixed the value delleradiazioni recorded today at the Fukushima No. 2 reactor, from 'initial 10 million times greater than normal mistakenly declared earlier, to 100,000 times, a level that is still dangerous and would justify the evacuation of the technicians.
The Kyodo agency reported. The new estimate and 'finedi come to a day of errors, gross appearance, the concentration of radioactivity in reactor No. 2. The vice president of TEPCO, Sakae Muto, late at night (in the afternoon in Italy), apologized for the accident and had the reflexes, both domestically and internationally.
Although decreased to 100,000 times normal levels after closer examination carried out, the risks are very high. "I am very sorry and I want to make sure that this does not happen again in the future," said Muto. 16:41 - TEPCO "Confusion in the analysis of samples with different radioactive elements" The TEPCO has convened an emergency press conference after the factor "10 million" had been around the world.
The company, faced with yet another injury, he stated that "1,000 millisievert per hour measured in the plane under the turbines of the reactor No. 2 is an accurate figure." Vice President, Sakae Muto said that the error is due to the fact that different radioactive elements have been combined in the analysis of samples taken, for example, by putting together "iodine-134 and cobalt-56." The new analysis, he added, will be made soon.
A check had already been asked by the Japanese Nuclear Safety, a surprise outlier. The radioactivity in reactor No. 3 was 400 millisievert per hour below those of No. 2. 16.07 - TEPCO apologizes: "Errors in the calculation of radioactivity" TEPCO, the operator of centralenucleare Fukushima, apologizes and admits errors in estimation of concentration of radioactive substances in the reactor No.
2 13.45 - Government sources: "Now an emergency. Then close the nuclear "" The priority now is to resolve the emergency Fukushima, then you must follow a wide-ranging review on nuclear power. " The sources told ANSA the Japanese government about the role and powers of the Authority's area in Japan that does not mean the same operators, including TEPCO.
Glioperatori will be part of the reflection, even more so after the behavior and the measures are not always clear from the nature and appropriate fielded by TEPCO, the operator of nuclear power plant in Fukushima and the first utility in the country. Indeed precisely with the company, the same sources have admitted that "there were some misunderstandings." 13.10 - Physical CNR data support merging core and flaws The alarming data from Fukushima, with the levels of radioactivity in the reactor 2 higher than 10 million times the normal levels, confirm what was feared for some time: "The merger partial opening of one or more core holes, with the risk of release of highly radioactive material.
" The stresses Valerio Rossi Albertini, a nuclear physicist at the CNR. "The EU Energy Commissioner - Albertini recalled - and the French Minister Lacoste long been hypothesized that the containment shell is not waterproof, and that the risks were higher than those reported by the Japanese authorities.
Now it will be much more difficult for technicians working to repair the damage: we must consider whether you can still use the drones Americans to intervene and enclose everything in a concrete sarcophagus. Of course this incident is the worst in history after Chernobyl, we hope to be able to contain it "12:56 - Demonstrations against nuclear power in Tokyo and Nagoya now hannomanifestato Hundreds of people in Nagoya (center) and Tokyo to demand the abandonment of nuclear power plants after 'Fukushima plant accident caused by the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago.
They found France Presse journalists on the spot. In a country where traditionally anti-nuclear demonstrations are rare and have little participation, at least 300 demonstrators gathered in Nagoya responding to students concerned about the situation at the center of Fukushima 1, located in the northeast of the archipelago.
"We do not want another Fukushima," chanted the protesters demanding the closure of the Hamaoka plant located 120 kilometers from Nagoya, on the south coast of Honshu, and also to earthquake risk. In Tokyo, finally, about 300 people marched in upmarket Ginza chanting slogans like "We do not need nuclear power." 11:52 - IAEA data confirm the partial melting of the core data disclosed oggidall'Autorità Japanese Nuclear Safety Industrial (Nisa) confirm that the number 2 reactor in central Fukushima is a partial meltdown occurred.
The measures provided for the first time since Nisa, refer to the water confined in the internal cooling circuit of the reactor, so isolated from the outside. Italian experts in contact with Nisa explain that in normal levels of radioactivity in the cooling water of a nuclear reactor is much lower and nitrogen-containing radioactive tritium.
In this case the values are higher in the presence of other radionuclides, which further confirm the partial core meltdown, as stressed in recent days. To carry out the measures it was necessary to "extract" a sample of water from the reactor cooling circuit inside. The personnel who carried out this operation was evacuated immediately, as required by safety rules, to minimize the exposure time and therefore the accumulation of radiation in the body.
6:51 - not yet identified the sources of harmful material loss, the level of iodine-131 nelreattore n.2 this is extremely high, to the point to suggest to the Agency that the water can be somehow linked to the core, as radioactivity recorded is 1,000 millisievert per hour. The contamination of emergency rooms while attempts to put in safety have been hampered by the threat radiation: today was the plan the way forward from the fire trucks to electric pumps to inject water into the reactor to speed up and avoid further delays.
The loss of sources of harmful material remain to be identified when the iodine was up to 1,850 times the legal limit in the waters immediately surrounding the plant in Fukushima. 6:27 - evacuated reactor 2: "Too much radioactivity The radioactivity of the water of the central Fukushima No.2 alreattore is extremely high and is 10 million times the normal levels.
He reports the Agency for Nuclear Safety, under which it is required the immediate evacuation of the technicians at work. The chronicle of the March 26, 2011: 15:56 - Germany, one hundred thousand marching to stop nuclear-hundred thousand people demonstrated today in four German cities, demanding an immediate halt to the activity of nuclear facilities.
The marches in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Monaco - Der Spiegel reports in its online version - stopped at 14:15 to take a brief moment of silence for the victims of the earthquake in Japan. In the capital, according to police, attended the rally about 50 000 people in Hamburg, 20 000.
Colorful posters and slogans took to the streets of four cities, "Fukushima warns: turn off all the reactors," "Sympathy for the atom ends up as ancient Rome." The objective of the environmental organizations that have promoted the initiative is to send a clear signal to policy. " In the aftermath of the disaster in Fukushima, also pushed by fear for the next regional elections - tomorrow we vote in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate - the black-yellow government reacted immediately, stopping the seven oldest reactors and suspending for three months of any decision to extend the activity of the plant (between the points of the executive program).
The Chancellor argued that "before you exit the nuclear the better." He also explained, however, in recent days, that would not make sense to quench all the nuclear plants, to import nuclear energy from others. Nuclear power is for Germany, however, "technology transition", and Merkel has announced an accelerated development of alternative energy.
15:35 - Expert: "There are no items to assess the level seven" There are no items to assess level 7 incident in the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima 1, Enea said the expert Eugenio Santoro, commenting on the position Greenpeace. E 'rather more plausible, he noted, that the incident may be classified by the level 5 to level 6 of the international Ines (International Nuclear Event Scale).
According to Santoro, "you can not say that the contamination occurred in Fukushima is massive as was that of Chernobyl." The accident occurred at Chernobyl in fact violent explosion that hurled radioactive material directly into the upper atmosphere, where they were transported over long distances along with the air masses.
In the case of radionuclides Fukushima never reached the upper atmosphere, the spread was more limited and with a dispersion of radioactive material at the local level. What did the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), quoted by Greenpeace, was to reconstruct the movement of radioactive materials released by the accident of Fukushima until their arrival on the west coast of the United States.
In this reconstruction has been also calculated the dispersion of radioactive material occurred along the way and due to winds and precipitation. The final reading in California, combined with the drop-out rate, allowed to go back to an estimate of the radioactivity released in the area around the center of Fukushima in the early days of the accident 13:46 - Greenpeace: Fukushima already at level 7, a new study commissioned Greenpeace Germany Helmut Hirsch, an expert on nuclear safety, the incident reveals that the Japanese central Fukushima, had already issued such a level of radioactivity to be classified as level 7, according to the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).
Hirsch's study, based on data published by the French government for the Radiation Protection (IRSN) and the Central Institute for Meteorology Austrian (ZAMG), found that the total quantity of radionuclides of iodine and cesium-131 -137, Fukushima issued between 11 and 13 March 2011, equivalent to three times the minimum value to classify an incident as level 7 on the INES scale.
7 is the highest level of severity for nuclear accidents, previously reached only during the accident at Chernobyl in 1986. Greenpeace Japan sent a group of experts who now will begin to monitor the levels of radioactive contamination around the evacuation area. 12:53 - No radioactivity measurements in the air in Italy in the central premises of firefighters around the country again this morning "did not reveal the presence of abnormal radioactive agents.
The data recorded by the instruments used by specialists of the body - said the interior ministry - collected by the Centre for National Operations, did not experience appreciable changes of the normal values recorded daily. The network of the National Fire detection fallout detect and report, 24 hours a day, every day, and radiological danger 'consists of 1,237 telemetry equipment located throughout the Italian territory.
11:32 - 1 reactor turns 40 the number 1 reactor of the plant in Fukushima turns 40 years today. Announcing Sakae Muto, vice president of TEPCO, which operates the plant in northeastern Japan at the center of the nuclear crisis after the earthquake and tsunami, said it was "very regrettable" what happened.
On the occasion of the anniversary, said the agency still Jiji Press, Muto has apologized. 11.09 - Controls on seawater at 30 km from the coast hannoreso known that Japanese officials are monitoring the levels of radiation in the sea 30 km from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by the earthquake of 11 March, but I am convinced that The data show that there is no reason for concern about the risk of contamination of fish.
An official of the Ministry of Science said in a press conference that the levels of iodine-131 in sea water at that distance from the plant nuclear coast were within legal limits. 10:06 - 470km of coastline square overwhelmed by the tsunami The tsunami swept through last March 11 and razed an area of 470 square kilometers along the coast.
Was reported by the broadcaster NHK World was based on a report from the specialist company Pasco, prepared on the basis of data from the satellites. The coast has been the worst-hit Miyagi prefecture (about 300 square kilometers), followed by Fukushima (about 110 square kilometers) and Iwate (about 50 square kilometers).
The last budget of the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March is about 10,102 confirmed dead and 17,000 missing. 9:37 - "situation stable, but much to do" The situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is stable and "not serious, but there is still much work to do." Said the chief of staff, Yukio Edan, during the brief press conference this afternoon.
9.02 - "Hard to predict when the crisis will end" "It 's difficult to say when it will end the nuclear crisis in Japan." A spokesman for the state was the Japanese government, Yulio Edan, quoted by Kyodo News. 7:31 - High level of iodine in sea Japanese nuclear safety agency has found a rate of radioactive iodine in the sea 1250 times higher than normal.
This was announced by the companies 'electricity' that operates the plant in Fukushima, TEPCO with water samples taken off the reactor number 1. An agency spokesman explained that if you drink 50 cl of water with this concentration of iodine in the body reaches the natural limit which can be 'absorbed'.
The chronicle of the March 25 
This after some remarks made about areas near the plant. A very high level of radioactivity was detected for the first time in pulses from Tokyo, but not for sale. Much more serious is the situation at sea surveys have shown radiation levels 1250 times higher than normal. While continuing aftershocks, the number of victims has risen to over 27 thousand people dead or missing.
The number of wounded exceeds 2,700. Meanwhile, France, like Italy, down in part on the atom. "Nuclear power plants that will not exceed the 'stress test' planned by the EU after what happened in Japan will be closed." And 'when Brussels announced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at the end of the EU summit.
18:37 - TEPCO official correction: Radiation not exceeding 10 million, but 'only' 100,000 times the norm The TEPCO has fixed the value delleradiazioni recorded today at the Fukushima No. 2 reactor, from 'initial 10 million times greater than normal mistakenly declared earlier, to 100,000 times, a level that is still dangerous and would justify the evacuation of the technicians.
The Kyodo agency reported. The new estimate and 'finedi come to a day of errors, gross appearance, the concentration of radioactivity in reactor No. 2. The vice president of TEPCO, Sakae Muto, late at night (in the afternoon in Italy), apologized for the accident and had the reflexes, both domestically and internationally.
Although decreased to 100,000 times normal levels after closer examination carried out, the risks are very high. "I am very sorry and I want to make sure that this does not happen again in the future," said Muto. 16:41 - TEPCO "Confusion in the analysis of samples with different radioactive elements" The TEPCO has convened an emergency press conference after the factor "10 million" had been around the world.
The company, faced with yet another injury, he stated that "1,000 millisievert per hour measured in the plane under the turbines of the reactor No. 2 is an accurate figure." Vice President, Sakae Muto said that the error is due to the fact that different radioactive elements have been combined in the analysis of samples taken, for example, by putting together "iodine-134 and cobalt-56." The new analysis, he added, will be made soon.
A check had already been asked by the Japanese Nuclear Safety, a surprise outlier. The radioactivity in reactor No. 3 was 400 millisievert per hour below those of No. 2. 16.07 - TEPCO apologizes: "Errors in the calculation of radioactivity" TEPCO, the operator of centralenucleare Fukushima, apologizes and admits errors in estimation of concentration of radioactive substances in the reactor No.
2 13.45 - Government sources: "Now an emergency. Then close the nuclear "" The priority now is to resolve the emergency Fukushima, then you must follow a wide-ranging review on nuclear power. " The sources told ANSA the Japanese government about the role and powers of the Authority's area in Japan that does not mean the same operators, including TEPCO.
Glioperatori will be part of the reflection, even more so after the behavior and the measures are not always clear from the nature and appropriate fielded by TEPCO, the operator of nuclear power plant in Fukushima and the first utility in the country. Indeed precisely with the company, the same sources have admitted that "there were some misunderstandings." 13.10 - Physical CNR data support merging core and flaws The alarming data from Fukushima, with the levels of radioactivity in the reactor 2 higher than 10 million times the normal levels, confirm what was feared for some time: "The merger partial opening of one or more core holes, with the risk of release of highly radioactive material.
" The stresses Valerio Rossi Albertini, a nuclear physicist at the CNR. "The EU Energy Commissioner - Albertini recalled - and the French Minister Lacoste long been hypothesized that the containment shell is not waterproof, and that the risks were higher than those reported by the Japanese authorities.
Now it will be much more difficult for technicians working to repair the damage: we must consider whether you can still use the drones Americans to intervene and enclose everything in a concrete sarcophagus. Of course this incident is the worst in history after Chernobyl, we hope to be able to contain it "12:56 - Demonstrations against nuclear power in Tokyo and Nagoya now hannomanifestato Hundreds of people in Nagoya (center) and Tokyo to demand the abandonment of nuclear power plants after 'Fukushima plant accident caused by the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago.
They found France Presse journalists on the spot. In a country where traditionally anti-nuclear demonstrations are rare and have little participation, at least 300 demonstrators gathered in Nagoya responding to students concerned about the situation at the center of Fukushima 1, located in the northeast of the archipelago.
"We do not want another Fukushima," chanted the protesters demanding the closure of the Hamaoka plant located 120 kilometers from Nagoya, on the south coast of Honshu, and also to earthquake risk. In Tokyo, finally, about 300 people marched in upmarket Ginza chanting slogans like "We do not need nuclear power." 11:52 - IAEA data confirm the partial melting of the core data disclosed oggidall'Autorità Japanese Nuclear Safety Industrial (Nisa) confirm that the number 2 reactor in central Fukushima is a partial meltdown occurred.
The measures provided for the first time since Nisa, refer to the water confined in the internal cooling circuit of the reactor, so isolated from the outside. Italian experts in contact with Nisa explain that in normal levels of radioactivity in the cooling water of a nuclear reactor is much lower and nitrogen-containing radioactive tritium.
In this case the values are higher in the presence of other radionuclides, which further confirm the partial core meltdown, as stressed in recent days. To carry out the measures it was necessary to "extract" a sample of water from the reactor cooling circuit inside. The personnel who carried out this operation was evacuated immediately, as required by safety rules, to minimize the exposure time and therefore the accumulation of radiation in the body.
6:51 - not yet identified the sources of harmful material loss, the level of iodine-131 nelreattore n.2 this is extremely high, to the point to suggest to the Agency that the water can be somehow linked to the core, as radioactivity recorded is 1,000 millisievert per hour. The contamination of emergency rooms while attempts to put in safety have been hampered by the threat radiation: today was the plan the way forward from the fire trucks to electric pumps to inject water into the reactor to speed up and avoid further delays.
The loss of sources of harmful material remain to be identified when the iodine was up to 1,850 times the legal limit in the waters immediately surrounding the plant in Fukushima. 6:27 - evacuated reactor 2: "Too much radioactivity The radioactivity of the water of the central Fukushima No.2 alreattore is extremely high and is 10 million times the normal levels.
He reports the Agency for Nuclear Safety, under which it is required the immediate evacuation of the technicians at work. The chronicle of the March 26, 2011: 15:56 - Germany, one hundred thousand marching to stop nuclear-hundred thousand people demonstrated today in four German cities, demanding an immediate halt to the activity of nuclear facilities.
The marches in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Monaco - Der Spiegel reports in its online version - stopped at 14:15 to take a brief moment of silence for the victims of the earthquake in Japan. In the capital, according to police, attended the rally about 50 000 people in Hamburg, 20 000.
Colorful posters and slogans took to the streets of four cities, "Fukushima warns: turn off all the reactors," "Sympathy for the atom ends up as ancient Rome." The objective of the environmental organizations that have promoted the initiative is to send a clear signal to policy. " In the aftermath of the disaster in Fukushima, also pushed by fear for the next regional elections - tomorrow we vote in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate - the black-yellow government reacted immediately, stopping the seven oldest reactors and suspending for three months of any decision to extend the activity of the plant (between the points of the executive program).
The Chancellor argued that "before you exit the nuclear the better." He also explained, however, in recent days, that would not make sense to quench all the nuclear plants, to import nuclear energy from others. Nuclear power is for Germany, however, "technology transition", and Merkel has announced an accelerated development of alternative energy.
15:35 - Expert: "There are no items to assess the level seven" There are no items to assess level 7 incident in the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima 1, Enea said the expert Eugenio Santoro, commenting on the position Greenpeace. E 'rather more plausible, he noted, that the incident may be classified by the level 5 to level 6 of the international Ines (International Nuclear Event Scale).
According to Santoro, "you can not say that the contamination occurred in Fukushima is massive as was that of Chernobyl." The accident occurred at Chernobyl in fact violent explosion that hurled radioactive material directly into the upper atmosphere, where they were transported over long distances along with the air masses.
In the case of radionuclides Fukushima never reached the upper atmosphere, the spread was more limited and with a dispersion of radioactive material at the local level. What did the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), quoted by Greenpeace, was to reconstruct the movement of radioactive materials released by the accident of Fukushima until their arrival on the west coast of the United States.
In this reconstruction has been also calculated the dispersion of radioactive material occurred along the way and due to winds and precipitation. The final reading in California, combined with the drop-out rate, allowed to go back to an estimate of the radioactivity released in the area around the center of Fukushima in the early days of the accident 13:46 - Greenpeace: Fukushima already at level 7, a new study commissioned Greenpeace Germany Helmut Hirsch, an expert on nuclear safety, the incident reveals that the Japanese central Fukushima, had already issued such a level of radioactivity to be classified as level 7, according to the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).
Hirsch's study, based on data published by the French government for the Radiation Protection (IRSN) and the Central Institute for Meteorology Austrian (ZAMG), found that the total quantity of radionuclides of iodine and cesium-131 -137, Fukushima issued between 11 and 13 March 2011, equivalent to three times the minimum value to classify an incident as level 7 on the INES scale.
7 is the highest level of severity for nuclear accidents, previously reached only during the accident at Chernobyl in 1986. Greenpeace Japan sent a group of experts who now will begin to monitor the levels of radioactive contamination around the evacuation area. 12:53 - No radioactivity measurements in the air in Italy in the central premises of firefighters around the country again this morning "did not reveal the presence of abnormal radioactive agents.
The data recorded by the instruments used by specialists of the body - said the interior ministry - collected by the Centre for National Operations, did not experience appreciable changes of the normal values recorded daily. The network of the National Fire detection fallout detect and report, 24 hours a day, every day, and radiological danger 'consists of 1,237 telemetry equipment located throughout the Italian territory.
11:32 - 1 reactor turns 40 the number 1 reactor of the plant in Fukushima turns 40 years today. Announcing Sakae Muto, vice president of TEPCO, which operates the plant in northeastern Japan at the center of the nuclear crisis after the earthquake and tsunami, said it was "very regrettable" what happened.
On the occasion of the anniversary, said the agency still Jiji Press, Muto has apologized. 11.09 - Controls on seawater at 30 km from the coast hannoreso known that Japanese officials are monitoring the levels of radiation in the sea 30 km from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by the earthquake of 11 March, but I am convinced that The data show that there is no reason for concern about the risk of contamination of fish.
An official of the Ministry of Science said in a press conference that the levels of iodine-131 in sea water at that distance from the plant nuclear coast were within legal limits. 10:06 - 470km of coastline square overwhelmed by the tsunami The tsunami swept through last March 11 and razed an area of 470 square kilometers along the coast.
Was reported by the broadcaster NHK World was based on a report from the specialist company Pasco, prepared on the basis of data from the satellites. The coast has been the worst-hit Miyagi prefecture (about 300 square kilometers), followed by Fukushima (about 110 square kilometers) and Iwate (about 50 square kilometers).
The last budget of the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March is about 10,102 confirmed dead and 17,000 missing. 9:37 - "situation stable, but much to do" The situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is stable and "not serious, but there is still much work to do." Said the chief of staff, Yukio Edan, during the brief press conference this afternoon.
9.02 - "Hard to predict when the crisis will end" "It 's difficult to say when it will end the nuclear crisis in Japan." A spokesman for the state was the Japanese government, Yulio Edan, quoted by Kyodo News. 7:31 - High level of iodine in sea Japanese nuclear safety agency has found a rate of radioactive iodine in the sea 1250 times higher than normal.
This was announced by the companies 'electricity' that operates the plant in Fukushima, TEPCO with water samples taken off the reactor number 1. An agency spokesman explained that if you drink 50 cl of water with this concentration of iodine in the body reaches the natural limit which can be 'absorbed'.
The chronicle of the March 25
- Fukushima, the Film (25/03/2011)
- TEPCO corrections: Not "10 million times" normal level, "100,000 times" (27/03/2011)
- Residents safe: Fukushima adviser (22/03/2011)
- 10,000,000 times normal radiation spike at Fukushima 'mistake' - officials (via Dandelion Salad) (27/03/2011)
- Two Fukushima Workers Hospitalized (24/03/2011)
This is dramatic. While mot iodine will soon decay lots of fission products are far longer lived.
ReplyDeleteYou and your readers may also be interested in how to treat radioactively contaminated drinking water:
http://crisismaven.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/dangers-properties-possible-uses-and-methods-of-purification-of-radioactively-contaminated-drinking-water-e-g-in-japan/
Maybe someone wants to help with Japanese and other languages?