TOKYO - While continuing aftershocks in Japan - the last of magnitude 6.1 was felt in the north - is more complicated situation around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. The presence of iodine in sea water near the structure is increased up to 147 times the levels prescribed by law. And three employees of the facility were affected by radiation, necessitating hospitalization for two of them.
Meanwhile, the resumption of work on reactivation of the cooling system at reactor No. 3, after nearly a day to stop the emission of black smoke. After the alarm in recent days, the tap water in Tokyo is drinking again, with the level of radioactive iodine back under the legal limit allowed for children: the municipal authorities have announced.
E 'was meanwhile released the latest official death toll of the earthquake and tsunami: 26 thousand, including missing and some victims. And hundreds of thousands are displaced people who have found refuge in emergency facilities. New shock, possible tidal wave. The land is back to shake today: a new earthquake of magnitude 6.1 was recorded in northeastern Japan at 17:21 local time (9.21 in Italy), reported the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has noted that the epicenter just off the coast of Iwate prefecture at a depth of 20 km.
The intensity was measured at 5 on the scale of Japan 7, while there are no reports of damage to persons or property. The Jma, while not throwing no tsunami warning has warned of a possible anomalous variation of the waves following the shock. Workers removed from the reactor No. 3. The TEPCO, which operates the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, has asked the workers to leave the No.
3 reactor, one of those damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March. The Kyodo agency reported. Among the damaged reactor, No. 3 is considered the most dangerous because of the fuel fed "mox" highly radioactive. It was there that the plant employed workers were hospitalized. "Their skin has come into contact with contaminated water.
It 'unfortunate accident. They were immediately transferred to receive the necessary treatment," said government spokesman, Yukio Edan. The analysis showed that the three were exposed to more than 170 millisieverts, the spokesman said. The Tokyo government has set at 100 millisievert year the maximum safety for those working to repair transactions system.
Expert warns of tsunami risk. While efforts continue to secure the facility, the Washington Post reveals that the capacity of the plant to withstand a natural disaster of serious proportions were already raised doubts. A Japanese scholar, invited to be part of a committee on safety of nuclear power, had warned that Fukushima-1 could not withstand a strong earthquake, as actually happened.
Yukinobu Okamura, a prominent Japanese seismologist, in June 2009 he was invited to take part in a series of meetings organized by the Agency for Nuclear Safety and industry to assess the ability of Fukushima-one can withstand a natural disaster. Okamura said that the greatest danger, according to him, he could just come from a significant tsunami, but his opinion was not followed up.
Drinking water again. E 'returned the alarm for tap water: the Tokyo metropolitan government has reported that iodine-131 in water in the city fell to 79 Bq / kg, below the threshold of safety for infants at an altitude of 100. The Italian Ambassador Vincenzo Petrone asked, speaking to the Ansa news agency, to "avoid unnecessary alarm" and "assess the situation in context." Toyota resumes production.
Another sign of normalization comes from Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan, which announced today that it will resume production of the Prius and two other models of motor car hybrid, while the other car maker Honda Motor Corporation has announced that he had referred the resumption of production difficulties in the supply of components caused by the earthquake and tsunami.
Ispra: No trace of the cloud on Italy. Regarding the arrival of the cloud in Europe, there is no alarm. If it's been at our latitude air masses from Japan, had traces of radioactivity minimum so as not to be detected even though the very precise measurement tools: this is the situation found by the last bulletin ISPRA - dating back to 20 last night - which found no fault than before the accident in Fukushima.
"In their motion, the air masses are gradually depletion of the initial content of radioactivity, so it is considered that arrived in Europe, have a very low concentration of radioactivity, to be considered not relevant radiological point of view," announces the 'Institute for the Protection and Environmental Research, which is monitoring the daily particulate air pollution with particular attention to the presence of cesium 137 and iodine 131.
The institute also claimed weekly measurements for the "laying on the ground." The daily results, lets you know, "revealed no abnormalities to date compared to those recorded before the injury." 
Meanwhile, the resumption of work on reactivation of the cooling system at reactor No. 3, after nearly a day to stop the emission of black smoke. After the alarm in recent days, the tap water in Tokyo is drinking again, with the level of radioactive iodine back under the legal limit allowed for children: the municipal authorities have announced.
E 'was meanwhile released the latest official death toll of the earthquake and tsunami: 26 thousand, including missing and some victims. And hundreds of thousands are displaced people who have found refuge in emergency facilities. New shock, possible tidal wave. The land is back to shake today: a new earthquake of magnitude 6.1 was recorded in northeastern Japan at 17:21 local time (9.21 in Italy), reported the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has noted that the epicenter just off the coast of Iwate prefecture at a depth of 20 km.
The intensity was measured at 5 on the scale of Japan 7, while there are no reports of damage to persons or property. The Jma, while not throwing no tsunami warning has warned of a possible anomalous variation of the waves following the shock. Workers removed from the reactor No. 3. The TEPCO, which operates the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, has asked the workers to leave the No.
3 reactor, one of those damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March. The Kyodo agency reported. Among the damaged reactor, No. 3 is considered the most dangerous because of the fuel fed "mox" highly radioactive. It was there that the plant employed workers were hospitalized. "Their skin has come into contact with contaminated water.
It 'unfortunate accident. They were immediately transferred to receive the necessary treatment," said government spokesman, Yukio Edan. The analysis showed that the three were exposed to more than 170 millisieverts, the spokesman said. The Tokyo government has set at 100 millisievert year the maximum safety for those working to repair transactions system.
Expert warns of tsunami risk. While efforts continue to secure the facility, the Washington Post reveals that the capacity of the plant to withstand a natural disaster of serious proportions were already raised doubts. A Japanese scholar, invited to be part of a committee on safety of nuclear power, had warned that Fukushima-1 could not withstand a strong earthquake, as actually happened.
Yukinobu Okamura, a prominent Japanese seismologist, in June 2009 he was invited to take part in a series of meetings organized by the Agency for Nuclear Safety and industry to assess the ability of Fukushima-one can withstand a natural disaster. Okamura said that the greatest danger, according to him, he could just come from a significant tsunami, but his opinion was not followed up.
Drinking water again. E 'returned the alarm for tap water: the Tokyo metropolitan government has reported that iodine-131 in water in the city fell to 79 Bq / kg, below the threshold of safety for infants at an altitude of 100. The Italian Ambassador Vincenzo Petrone asked, speaking to the Ansa news agency, to "avoid unnecessary alarm" and "assess the situation in context." Toyota resumes production.
Another sign of normalization comes from Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan, which announced today that it will resume production of the Prius and two other models of motor car hybrid, while the other car maker Honda Motor Corporation has announced that he had referred the resumption of production difficulties in the supply of components caused by the earthquake and tsunami.
Ispra: No trace of the cloud on Italy. Regarding the arrival of the cloud in Europe, there is no alarm. If it's been at our latitude air masses from Japan, had traces of radioactivity minimum so as not to be detected even though the very precise measurement tools: this is the situation found by the last bulletin ISPRA - dating back to 20 last night - which found no fault than before the accident in Fukushima.
"In their motion, the air masses are gradually depletion of the initial content of radioactivity, so it is considered that arrived in Europe, have a very low concentration of radioactivity, to be considered not relevant radiological point of view," announces the 'Institute for the Protection and Environmental Research, which is monitoring the daily particulate air pollution with particular attention to the presence of cesium 137 and iodine 131.
The institute also claimed weekly measurements for the "laying on the ground." The daily results, lets you know, "revealed no abnormalities to date compared to those recorded before the injury."
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