The situation at the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Fukushima is "unpredictable," warned, Friday, March 25, Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan. "We work to ensure that the situation does not worsen. We must be extremely vigilant," he told a news conference. Mr. Kan has also expressed his "respect for all those who have joined forces to cope with the worst crisis experienced by Japan since the war." "Two weeks after the disaster, I would ask everyone to show solidarity to overcome this crisis," said the head of the center-left government.
Operations of reactor cooling using water cannons and work to restore power progressed slowly because of the dangerousness of the site, following the hospitalization of two workers seriously irradiated. "We're still assessing the damage to the plant and we can not set a date by which the cooling equipment will operate.
It could take more than a month, who knows," said a spokesman society. The Japanese Nuclear Safety Agency has announced that it was not ruling out the possibility of raising the level to 6 of the accident Fukushima, currently set at 5 on a scale from 0 to 7. The Agency has at the same time criticized TEPCO for not having taken steps to protect its technicians who are fighting day and night alongside hundreds of firefighters and soldiers to prevent a nuclear disaster.
According to a spokesman for the agency, "radioactive substances have leaked from the reactor 3, which could have been damaged." Three workers, wearing only rubber boots were contaminated on Thursday with a puddle very highly radioactive during an operation in the turbine behind the reactor 3.
Two were hospitalized with burns on his feet. In total, 17 workers were exposed to radiation exceeding the limit since March 11. The government ordered TEPCO "to improve personnel management in order to prevent the recurrence of such accidents," Friday said the spokesman Yukio Edano, asking for an investigation to explain "how workers have been exposed to radiation.
Until the cooling pumps were returned to service, radioactive leaks continue to periodically escape from the four most severely damaged reactor, feeding the fear of contaminating the food chain and water in the Tokyo area , where an estimated 35 million people, and even abroad. The sale of certain green vegetables and raw milk in at least four prefectures around the plant in Fukushima was prohibited, while tap water was not recommended for young children in a dozen locations around the capital .
The Ministry of Health has also tightened controls on fish and shellfish caught off the plant. The fear of nuclear radiation extends also to the rest of the planet. The number of foreign visitors arriving at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, has fallen about 60%, between 11 and 22 March, compared to the same period last year, said the Office of immigration.
The number of foreigners fleeing the country has increased by 20 000 people during this time. After the United States, Australia, Canada, Russia, China and several other Asian countries, 27 countries of the European Union have decreed in turn controls on fresh produce from the north- eastern Japan, which have now almost more opportunities abroad. 
Operations of reactor cooling using water cannons and work to restore power progressed slowly because of the dangerousness of the site, following the hospitalization of two workers seriously irradiated. "We're still assessing the damage to the plant and we can not set a date by which the cooling equipment will operate.
It could take more than a month, who knows," said a spokesman society. The Japanese Nuclear Safety Agency has announced that it was not ruling out the possibility of raising the level to 6 of the accident Fukushima, currently set at 5 on a scale from 0 to 7. The Agency has at the same time criticized TEPCO for not having taken steps to protect its technicians who are fighting day and night alongside hundreds of firefighters and soldiers to prevent a nuclear disaster.
According to a spokesman for the agency, "radioactive substances have leaked from the reactor 3, which could have been damaged." Three workers, wearing only rubber boots were contaminated on Thursday with a puddle very highly radioactive during an operation in the turbine behind the reactor 3.
Two were hospitalized with burns on his feet. In total, 17 workers were exposed to radiation exceeding the limit since March 11. The government ordered TEPCO "to improve personnel management in order to prevent the recurrence of such accidents," Friday said the spokesman Yukio Edano, asking for an investigation to explain "how workers have been exposed to radiation.
Until the cooling pumps were returned to service, radioactive leaks continue to periodically escape from the four most severely damaged reactor, feeding the fear of contaminating the food chain and water in the Tokyo area , where an estimated 35 million people, and even abroad. The sale of certain green vegetables and raw milk in at least four prefectures around the plant in Fukushima was prohibited, while tap water was not recommended for young children in a dozen locations around the capital .
The Ministry of Health has also tightened controls on fish and shellfish caught off the plant. The fear of nuclear radiation extends also to the rest of the planet. The number of foreign visitors arriving at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, has fallen about 60%, between 11 and 22 March, compared to the same period last year, said the Office of immigration.
The number of foreigners fleeing the country has increased by 20 000 people during this time. After the United States, Australia, Canada, Russia, China and several other Asian countries, 27 countries of the European Union have decreed in turn controls on fresh produce from the north- eastern Japan, which have now almost more opportunities abroad.
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