ROME - A week before the earthquake and the devastating tsunami that struck Japan not loosen in the country fear for the fate of nuclear power plant in Fukushima. The severity of the accident has been increased from 4 to 5. In units 1, 2 and 3, the core is partially molten. The containers which hold the fuel rods would otherwise intact, according to Italian sources in direct contact with the plant operator and the Authority for the Japanese industrial and nuclear safety.
The crisis is very serious, but "the country will recover," said Prime Minister Naoto Kan, "and rebuild from the ruins." Meanwhile, a research institute, the Port and Airport Research Institute has estimated that the tsunami waves were at least 23 meters high. A record high after the 38 feet of a tsunami recorded in 1896.
AUDIO "The country is standing in tribute to the victims' carcasses VIDEO MAP Fukushima reactor, a high level of severity. The severity of the nuclear disaster in the middle of Fukushima-Daiichi has been increased from 4 to 5. The severity of an international nuclear event goes from level 1 (anomaly) to 7 (the most serious "major incident").
Each level includes a severity scale 10 times higher than the previous year. Level 5 refers to the incidents "with the consequences of larger radius, while the grade 4 defined as fallout with" local ". The Chernobyl accident in 1986, was classified as level 7 while Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, United States, so far the most serious accident since Chernobyl, was level 5.
"A race against time." The head of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, acknowledged that the battle to stabilize the reactor plant is "a race against time." Amano has arrived in Japan for an assessment of the crisis will not go in Fukushima, but will rely on an assessment of a team of experts sent there.
It urged the Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, to provide clearer information. On Monday, the head of the IAEA held an extraordinary meeting in Vienna to report other members of the situation. Premier, the message to the nation. Naoto Kan, under pressure as it is handling a very serious crisis, has chosen a message to the nation to praise the way in which Japan is reacting well to urge him not to give in to despair: "It 's the worst crisis since World War II, but we must not give in to pessimism.
" On the day when the entire country observed a minute's silence in memory of the victims, in Fukushima we work tirelessly to try to cool the reactors. The situation of the reactors. Five fire trucks have poured tons of water to the reactor 3. Continuing concern to the water level even in reactors 1 and 4 and increases the temperature in the containment of the spent fuel rods in reactors # 5 and 6.
The radiation levels give some hope to read one kilometer west of Unit 2 has detected a decline, falling from 351.4 to 265 microsievert hour, but it is true that there were different data, sometimes conflicting, in different parts of the plant. And columns of white smoke rise from the reactors 2, 3 and 4.
The hypothesis that circulates in the last few hours is that of a poured concrete to create the sarcophagus around the reactor, just as it did in Chernobyl-but experts say - is a massive undertaking and difficult to accomplish. The death toll. Official figures on dead and missing continue to rise.
According to police, there are 6,911 dead and 10,316 missing. The wounded 2,356. This is a provisional budget, which does not take into account the 10,000 missing persons from the coastal town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture, according to Kyodo News agency. Similarly among the missing are not accounted for the 10,000 people who are unaccounted for, according to NHK television, the port city of Minamisanriku, a short distance.
In total, 55,380 are damaged homes and public buildings, and in the north more than 850 thousand homes were still without water and electricity. 
The crisis is very serious, but "the country will recover," said Prime Minister Naoto Kan, "and rebuild from the ruins." Meanwhile, a research institute, the Port and Airport Research Institute has estimated that the tsunami waves were at least 23 meters high. A record high after the 38 feet of a tsunami recorded in 1896.
AUDIO "The country is standing in tribute to the victims' carcasses VIDEO MAP Fukushima reactor, a high level of severity. The severity of the nuclear disaster in the middle of Fukushima-Daiichi has been increased from 4 to 5. The severity of an international nuclear event goes from level 1 (anomaly) to 7 (the most serious "major incident").
Each level includes a severity scale 10 times higher than the previous year. Level 5 refers to the incidents "with the consequences of larger radius, while the grade 4 defined as fallout with" local ". The Chernobyl accident in 1986, was classified as level 7 while Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, United States, so far the most serious accident since Chernobyl, was level 5.
"A race against time." The head of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, acknowledged that the battle to stabilize the reactor plant is "a race against time." Amano has arrived in Japan for an assessment of the crisis will not go in Fukushima, but will rely on an assessment of a team of experts sent there.
It urged the Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, to provide clearer information. On Monday, the head of the IAEA held an extraordinary meeting in Vienna to report other members of the situation. Premier, the message to the nation. Naoto Kan, under pressure as it is handling a very serious crisis, has chosen a message to the nation to praise the way in which Japan is reacting well to urge him not to give in to despair: "It 's the worst crisis since World War II, but we must not give in to pessimism.
" On the day when the entire country observed a minute's silence in memory of the victims, in Fukushima we work tirelessly to try to cool the reactors. The situation of the reactors. Five fire trucks have poured tons of water to the reactor 3. Continuing concern to the water level even in reactors 1 and 4 and increases the temperature in the containment of the spent fuel rods in reactors # 5 and 6.
The radiation levels give some hope to read one kilometer west of Unit 2 has detected a decline, falling from 351.4 to 265 microsievert hour, but it is true that there were different data, sometimes conflicting, in different parts of the plant. And columns of white smoke rise from the reactors 2, 3 and 4.
The hypothesis that circulates in the last few hours is that of a poured concrete to create the sarcophagus around the reactor, just as it did in Chernobyl-but experts say - is a massive undertaking and difficult to accomplish. The death toll. Official figures on dead and missing continue to rise.
According to police, there are 6,911 dead and 10,316 missing. The wounded 2,356. This is a provisional budget, which does not take into account the 10,000 missing persons from the coastal town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture, according to Kyodo News agency. Similarly among the missing are not accounted for the 10,000 people who are unaccounted for, according to NHK television, the port city of Minamisanriku, a short distance.
In total, 55,380 are damaged homes and public buildings, and in the north more than 850 thousand homes were still without water and electricity.
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