Japan and the world are holding their breath in front of nuclear emergency. The fear of an apocalypse is far from closed. Relief operations are also involved U.S. troops. The United States has also sent unmanned spy planes to gather information on the state of the reactors. Meanwhile, the European Commissioner for Energy Guenther Oettinger talks about new "probable catastrophic developments." The hope is now focusing on the return of electrical current to activate the cooling systems.
The IAEA Director-General arrives in Tokyo to "see for themselves what happened." Obama also announced that the U.S. will be revised safety standards of nuclear power. It denounced the U.S.: the Japanese government does not say everything about the extent of the tragedy. 17.04 - Firefighters spray coolant on the reactor via a new attempt to contain the crisis at the nuclear plant in Fukushima Dai-ichi.
The firemen began to spray on a reactor coolant system, announced the news agency Kyodo News. 16:28 - IAEA board meets Monday The agency board of the IAEA, the Council of 35 Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency will meet in special session next Monday to hear the report of the Director General Yukiya Amano on his visit to Japan in these days following the crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami at the nuclear plant in Fukushima.
In a statement, the IAEA announced that the Board will meet at its headquarters in Vienna on Monday morning and love to inform member states on emergency nuclear power in Japan, after returning from his visit to the country (17-19 March). 16.09 - Panel Data Survey, only 22% of Italians are favorable to nuclear power after the earthquake in Japan falls significantly in Italy the proportion of favorable to nuclear power: the consensus, in fact, down from 40.5% in 2010 to 22% in recent days.
The fee for, then drops to 16% at the prospect that a nuclear power plant could be built near their homes. The referendum called for June could stop the path towards the use of nuclear energy in our country undertaken by the Government: to date, 58% of respondents, substantially all opposed to nuclear energy, states that will vote.
These are the main points that emerged from a survey of Padua Panel Data on a sample of 800 Italian citizens. 15:42 - Galan: "Drama Japan leads to reflection" serious administration decide rationally, but it can not disregard the feelings and emotion of the people. Certainly the dramatic story of Japan leads us to reflect.
" This was stated by Agriculture Minister Giancarlo Galan entering the Ministry of Economic Development for the meeting with banks and businesses on the review of incentives for renewable sources. 15:19 WHO: "I do not need restrictions on air travel" is not necessary to impose some restrictions on air travel to Japan to protect the public health, apart from the area with a radius of 30 km around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
According to Herbert Puempel, the World Health Organization, unless changes in the situation of radiation emissions from the plant, there is no reason to ban air travel. A position confirmed by the WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, who said in Tokyo as "the radioactivity increased slightly, but remains below the level of risk to health." It is currently considered "small" level of risk to health over a radius of 30 km around the station.
15.14 - ECB intervention to weaken yen estimated 5 billion in today's action, the Central Bank to weaken the yen, as part of joint action by the G7, is estimated at 5 billion euro. The said James Pearson, a number of currency trading at Nomura Securities International in London. The action by the ECB would take place through the purchase of euro yen.
For this reason, the European currency, which is currently estimated 114.47 yen in the morning has rocketed up to the day of 115.50 yen. 15.12 - IAEA extraordinary meeting in Vienna Monday the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will hold an emergency meeting on the tragedy in Japan next Monday in Vienna.
The Director-General Yukiya Amano, left yesterday for the Asian country and be back tomorrow, relazionerà at that time the other members of the organization. The meeting will begin at 11:00 and will last one day. 15.11 - Madrid sends plane to evacuate the Spanish government in Madrid has decided to send a plane to Japan to evacuate the citizens of Spain who want to leave the country, stated the deputy Alfredo Rubalcaba.
The plane, "a jumbo jet with 450 people" will leave Spain "in the coming hours," from Japan and will return Sunday, said the 'number 2' of the government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero. About 2 thousand Spaniards living in Japan for about 300 hours have expressed their desire to leave the country, said the vice premier.
15.09 - WHO: "Travel without restrictions" Organiazzione The World Health Organisation (WHO) does not intend for now issue notices of restrictions on travel in Japan. Except for the area around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, "from a public health point of view, there is no reason not to travel" to Tokyo or Japan, said a WHO spokesman in Geneva today.
But each individual will assess the situation as it deems best, and according to its criteria, said spokesman Gregory Hartl, referring to the crisis at Fushimi Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. 14:59 - Omm "Radioactivity areas with low air" The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said it had not observed radioactivity in the upper tiers of the atmosphere after nuclear accident in Japan, but only in very low areas.
"It 's a totally different situation from what happened in Ukraine, at Chernobyl, when there was a large fire on the site that carried the radioactive material in areas del'atmosfera high, which allowed a wide distribution of radioactivity," Puempel said Herbert, head of the division head of the Meteorological Division of WMO.
The current situation in Japan, however, "all the information in our possession indicate that the issue is limited to very basic areas of the atmosphere," said Puempel. For the expert, the current situation there is no reason to fear for international air travel. 14:22 - rating agencies cut TEPCO International agencies Moody's and Standard and Poor's announced the cut of two notes of the long-term rating of TEPCO, Japan, the company that manages the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
The move, says Moody's, reflects the severe impact from the earthquake and the tsunami is "potentially massive costs" associated with it, and the 'negative impact on the financial condition and the profile of the credit "of society. The Moody's rating changed from 'Aa2' to 'A1' and remains under investigation for possible downgrading.
Standard and Poor's has taken a similar initiative, reducing TEPCO's rating from 'A +' to 'A-1'. The agency believes that "operating performance will continue to deteriorate and it will take a long time before a recovery." Also estimated a 25% reduction in the ability 'to generate energy TEPCO, because of the many plants near finished out of Fukushima.
14:21 - No immediate risk of contamination, but the air is panic in China and Chinese waters "are not at immediate risk of contamination" following the explosion of Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima, but in the last hour there has been panic in different parts of the country, and yesterday the Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu in Beijing asked the Nipponese authorities to share information on the crisis "in a timely and accurate." As you read about AgiChina24, China, meanwhile, has decided to suspend plans for the construction of new nuclear power stations and the Beijing authorities have ordered to check the security measures of the 13 existing reactors and 27 under construction.
The latest reports date back to late on Thursday and show no sign of the levels of radioactivity above normal levels in the air of 41 different Chinese cities. "Over the next three days, the fallout will affect mainly the waters off the coast of Fukushima - according to a statement from the National Center for Environmental Prediction maritime Beijing - and the contaminants, which previously had reached the coast northeast of Tokyo, They moved to the east with the current.
" The supermarkets in many Chinese cities, however, have spent hours on stocks of salt after wave of panic that has spread from the coastal province of Zhejiang in other areas, such as the rich industrial province of Guangdong, and even in the capital Beijing and in the city of Chongqing, which is thousands of miles from the coast.
The rush is driven by the voice, however unfounded, according to which the salt fortified with iodine is used to prevent radiation. There were also record purchases of basic necessities. The National Commission for Reform and Development has released yesterday a note of urgency with which calls on local authorities to counter rumors about food shortages and the need to procure stocks of essential supplies.
The Commission has announced it is working with all relevant authorities to maintain a stable price level. 13:43 - EHP: "Even a high risk of cancer survivors in Chernobyl 25 years was not enough to decrease the risk of cancer in people who lived near Chernobyl at the time of the accident.
According to a study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the probability of contracting cancer of the thyroid is still equal to the days following the disaster. The study, conducted by the American National Institute of Health, examined 12,500 people who were under 18 at the time of the accident, two months later by measuring levels of iodine-131 in their thyroid.
In the 22 years after 65 people were diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and was double the probability for each gray (unit of absorbed radiation) measured in patients. "We have found no evidence during the trial that indicated a decrease in the time of cancer risk - the researchers wrote - what we have observed is that the absorption of radiation from iodine-131 is proportional to the risk of cancer, not seems to subside with time.
" According to experts, the first decrease in the risk of exposure occurs after 30 years, but in 40 years this is still higher than normal. 13:32 - EU ready to give technical assistance to central European Union is ready to provide technical assistance, "if Japan asks for it," for cooling operations of nuclear reactors.
The spokeswoman said the EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger. The spokesman explained that there will need about a year's work, since it was established in 357 days, the cooling time. "We want to be ready if there is to ask for help if needed and provide staff," said Marlene Holzner.
Next Monday, when EU energy ministers meeting, said the spokesman again, Commissioner Oettinger will propose to the ministers of Japan to provide "assistance in a coordinated manner, if asked, not only with staff but also with machines. 13:23 - French Universities attract students French universities attract students, teachers and researchers, about 350 people, who are still in Japan.
A "highly recommend" The repatriation is the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), which represents 83 universities in the country. The CPU recommended to students and university staff to use "all logistical means available to them" to leave Japan, because of the nuclear risk. The Ministry of Higher Education has already said that "facilitate" 'the return of university students and their reintegration in the universities.
13:21 - Finland embassy move from Tokyo to Hiroshima In the face of nuclear threat, the Finnish government has decided to move the capital from the Japanese embassy in Hiroshima. This, said the Foreign Ministry in Helsinki, is a precautionary measure due to the uncertainty of the security situation in the capital.
Along the same lines have moved yesterday also representatives of Germany and Austria who were transferred to Osaka. Instead remain open to the Tokyo embassy of France, Britain and Switzerland and Italian. 13.20 - Puppin, Politecnico di Milano. "Sarcophagus only solution, but practically impossible" To the point where the situation in the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, a concrete sarcophagus that covers everything like it was done at Chernobyl is the only solution at this point, but "it is almost a solution impossible.
" It 's the opinion of Ezio Puppin, a nuclear engineer at the Polytechnic of Milan. "In Chernobyl," recalls Puppin, "put a sarcophagus weighing 100,000 tons and has already 'cracks and crevices. Furthermore, given the weight is sinking into the ground. In short, and 'unstable and they' had to play only one reactor, while in Fukushima are at least four.
" It would, from an engineering perspective, "an unprecedented amount of 'concrete square meters and used to be filled, compared to a gigantic work which the pyramid of Cheops and' a joke. The only comparable works are large dams, and it takes years. " 13:13 - Here are the control centers for returnees from Japan For Italians returning from Japan after the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March, here is the list of focal points identified by the regions, able to provide assistance where necessary to Italian citizens or foreigners, from Japan, wanted to undergo checks following radiation emergency.
The list, which will be updated as further typing arrive from other regions, has been published on the website of the Ministry of Health. Emilia Romagna: Ospedali Riuniti di Parma, Ospedale S. Orsola-Malpighi in Bologna, Bufalini Hospital of Cesena. Lazio: San Camillo Hospital in Rome, University Hospital A.
Gemelli in Rome, Sant'Andrea Hospital of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I in Rome; Hospitaller physiotherapy institutes (Ifo) in Rome. Liguria: University Hospital St. Martino di Genova, Galliera Hospital Corporation Hospital in Genoa. Lombardia: Ospedale Niguarda Ca 'Granda, Milan, Circolo Macchi di Varese Hospital, Circolo Hospital of Busto Arsizio (Varese), Bergamo Hospital, Civil Hospital of Brescia, Cremona Institutes of Hospitallers.
Tuscany: the Careggi Hospital in Florence, Pisa University Hospital - the Hospital Santa Chiara di Pisa. Valle d'Aosta Regional Hospital Umberto Parini - Radiology Service, Geneva Avenue, 3. 12:59 - Airlift humanitarian aid takes off today from an airlift of humanitarian aid from the EU to Japan.
The spokesman of the EU commissioner for humanitarian aid Kristalina Georgieva. Also today, the spokesman said Brigandi Raphael, will visit Japan in 15 European experts in civil protection assistance to arrange with local partners and the International Red Cross. Member States have shown a great willingness and arrived several bids, said the spokesman.
Japan will send tents, sleeping bags and sets. 12:34 - Aiea: "Although diesel generator to cool down" next to fire hydrants and aglielicotteri, to cool the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, is now also used a diesel generator, as announced by the IAEA in Vienna in its latest update this morning , Japanese rough on the plant.
An emergency generator, water pump in the reactor 6 in the cooling tanks of fuel used for reactors 5 and 6, where the temperature is rising. According to the IAEA, attempted yesterday to lower the temperature in the tanks gave poor results: in the reactor 5 was increased from 64.2 to 65.5 degrees, while in the reactor 6 was slightly decreased from 62.5 degrees 62.
The normal temperature in the cooling tanks should be 25 degrees celsius. 12.30 - TEPCO: "Tomorrow maybe current reactors 1, 2 and 4" Engineers may be able to restore power in the reactor 4 of the Fukushima No. 1 plant tomorrow morning. TEPCO said, the company that operates the damaged.
Previously, the Japanese agency for nuclear safety had spoken of the possibility of restoring the power units 1 and 2 in the morning. 12.25 - Naoto Kan, "We will resume" the nuclear crisis in Japan "remains very serious" but "Japan will recover." This was stated today the Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
"Rebuilding the country from the ruins," he said, adding that he himself "a citizen", "work hard" for the revival of Japan. "After the Second World War we had a miraculous economic growth due to the efforts of the Japanese people. And that is how the Japanese nation has been reconstructed, "the premier said Kan.
The prime minister stressed that all citizens should "be united and work hand in hand and try to understand what each can do for the country." Speaking to nearly 600 thousand displaced persons accommodated in temporary shelters without power, food and medicine, Kan said he was suffering know that the situation is difficult, and promised that the government provide them with everything necessary to resume a normal life.
"We must be strong and believe that we recover, we can not afford to be pessimistic," said the premier. 12.22 - Tsunami flooded 400 square kilometers are in total at least 400 square kilometers of land inundated by the tsunami of last Friday, which is generated by the disastrous earthquake of magnitude 9.0: The Authority has announced the Geo-spatial Japanese, on the basis of 'analysis of aerial photographs and satellite built in the north-east of the country.
However there are still similar surveys over an area equal to 20 percent of that invested by the tidal wave, so the figure is expected to grow further. Even so, he did however note the specialized institution, it is the biggest impact ever had in Japan by a tsunami. 12.07 - Cappellacci vs Hack: "Sardinia says no to nuclear power, has already made" (v.
10.13) I always suggest that proponents of nuclear power plants are carried far from home. None of them asked to do a few miles from his yard. This is a fact symptomatic and detector, which convinces us even more of our opposition. " So the President of Sardinia Region, Ugo Cappellacci said the statements of astrophysics Margherita Hack, pro-nuclear, for which you need to choose safe areas such as Sardinia.
"Sardinia does not want nuclear power plants. It 'a conscious choice, based on deep and strong motivation, not on emotion aroused by the events that took place in Japan. Our Island - said Cappellacci - has taken the decision with another path: that of the green-economy, renewable energies, development of a model compatible with our environmental heritage and landscape.
Sardinia has also paid a strong tribute to the reason of state, sacrificing to it some of its most evocative. We have already given and will not endure more hardship. Indeed, since the conditions have changed in the past have helped to aggravate the military and our land easements other weights, Sardinia calls for scaling them.
Thirdly, it is unacceptable under the pretext of an alleged increased security, think of the crop to other nuclear plants. The only security that would be more reliable in this way, in fact, would be to those who come across the sea. Professor Hack will spend his scientific arguments with his neighbors.
In Sardinia we have already chosen. " 11:47 - Japanese government "major disaster slowed reaction" The Japanese government has been overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster that struck Japan last week and why the reaction to the earthquake and tsunami has been slowed. The spokesman said the executive Yukio Edan, as reported by the BBC.
11:36 - At Fiumicino controls on imported foods are also underway at the airport diFiumicino controls on products of animal or vegetable origin coming from Japan, hit by the earthquake that caused a serious radioactive leak in a nuclear power plant Kukushima. In the Roman airport inspections, according to new provisions of the Health Ministry are carried out in the Cargo City - the city of the airport market.
Observe all the loads of food from Japan (seafood, caviar, soy, seaweed, green tea), made after 11 March, the day of the earthquake and tsunami. Imports of such goods in Fiumicino - stand out in the offices of airline health - are also very limited. The blockade of the goods, according to the provisions of Ministerial Decree, may last one, at most two days to allow the experts to analyze safety hazards.
The samples taken for analysis, in fact, are sent to laboratories in the case of Fiumicino Institute Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Lazio and Tuscany, with headquarters in Rome. There is, however, no limits with regard to import the products for which there is the certification package before 11 March.
11.13 - IAEA measure radioactivity in Tokyo The IAEA, the International Agency for Atomic Energy, will undertake 'day in the measurement of radioactivity levels in Tokyo, in order to reassure the people of Japan's capital city: the Director-General announced the UN agency, Yukiya Amano, who is visiting in his native Japan.
"We hope that this initiative will help to reassure the Japanese public," said Amano, quoted by the press 'Jiji', "since it is an international authority that will make its findings parallel to those conducted by the Government of Japan" 11.08 - Italy Embassy in Tokyo is open Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has given instructions to keep it open the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo.
With this policy decision by the Italian Government intends to send a signal of friendship with Japan, a country friend and member of the G8, which Italy hopes to overcome with his usual courage and determination in the difficult moment, and for which the recovery 'Italy offers its support as of now.
This choice is motivated also by the need to continue to ensure maximum effectiveness in helping fellow citizens in the metropolitan region in the Japanese capital. The Ambassador of Italy, Vincenzo Petrone, stays in Tokyo. Remain operational even the presidium of the crisis cell set up by the Embassy in Tokyo Narita airport for the drainage of the Italians who were to leave Japan with Alitalia and other airlines that still fly from that airport.
Self defense is in operation at the international airport in Osaka. 10:48 - Head: "Japan very serious incident" would really be "foolish to pretend nothing" after the nuclear accident in Japan, an incident "very, very serious" and "The Italian government is doing what he is doing all of Europe A reflection to understand what is happening.
" This was stated by the President of the Italian Nuclear Forum, Chicco Testa, speaking at the microphones of "The call", the heading of Mauritius Belpietro aired in Five Morning on Channel 5. Testa added that Europe needs to find solutions because we can not abandon nuclear power. And, looking at Italy, the former CEO of Enel said that before the world, if we fail to manage waste in Naples are not credible in dealing with nuclear power.
The problem, said head still, is the credibility of our bipartisan political establishment and institutional. 10:47 - More $ 3 trillion yen to stabilize markets The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has decisoun'ulteriore cash injection of 3,000 billion yen (37 billion dollars) in the country's financial system to calm the market.
This brings to 37,000 billion yen from the BOJ, the total liquidity pumped into the Japanese financial system, as reported by the BBC online. 10:29 - Japanese government: "Success in reactor 3 versamentoacqua" It seems the successful operation of discharge of water through the use of tank-trucks and fire engines, three of the nuclear power reactor in Fukushima 1: it said in a press conference the spokesman the Government of Japan, Yukio Edan, that have been around 64 tons of liquid placed inside the reactor so far, which is of particular concern because it uses nuclear fuel rods containing uranium as well, including plutonium.
Edan has admitted that it has "definitive information" on the situation in reactor three, but added that the water seems to have reached the holding tank of spent fuel, however dangerous, because the structure has dawned a new, large cloud steam. On the website of the Central Self-Defense Forces of Japan, namely the army, mobilized seven specialized vehicles, in three days should pass on the additional 50 tons of ballast water.
10.18 - Future: "Reasonable period of reflection" Nuclear power plants "are not triggered and bombs are designed and built with the criteria and systems from generation to generation ever more sophisticated." But a pause for reflection is necessary if "just where he would never have happened, it was enough that nature take its course" and "now the world is afraid, now we are afraid." And 'what we read in an editorial devoted to a discussion of future of the nuclear option in Italy in light of what is happening in Japan.
A situation, it is stated in the article published in the newspaper of the Italian bishops, who "goes too far the ideological confrontation between nuclear and anti-nuclear apocalyptic". "We need energy to survive, grow or manage a development more or less consolidated. But we really need that energy? "Asks Avvenire, recalling" the sun, wind, water, waste, maybe even the coal and its smoke.
And the oil, gas. " That is "a simple call for calm, reflection and rationality" appears "reasonable but even surprising," said Future, in the hope that "tomorrow's diatribe policy" does not remain "the uncertain margins granted yesterday." 10.13 - Hack: "Plants need now referendum useless" (v.
12:07) "If it had never threatened we would not even fire, we would still be in the stone age", which is why the astrophysicist Margherita Hack advocates nuclear. "Nuclear power - said in an interview with The Associated Press - involve a danger and should be approached with great seriousness, that often is missing in Italy, and rationally." The creation of new power plants, says the scientist, is necessary even if there exists the problem of the shape of Italy, which is a seismic country.
Then you must choose very carefully safe areas such as Sardinia. Now, he adds, with the Japanese Tragedy "is perfectly useless to the referendum, the result is obvious: there will be an avalanche of no." 10.03 - IAEA raises risk level from 4 to 5 on a scale of 7 Japan has raised the alarm at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Fukushima n1) from 4 to 5.
He reports to the IAEA, the UN agency for nuclear energy. The scale internazionaledegli nuclear and radiological events (Ines) reaches a maximum of seven. The Chernobyl accident in 86 was classified at level seven, the one at Three Mile Island in '79 to five. Three days ago, the president of the French nuclear safety Andre-Claude Lacoste, said that the accident in Fukushima was already at level 6.
Meanwhile, the Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, who arrived in Japan, said that engineers are engaged in a "race against time" to cool the reactors at the nuclear plant. 09:58 - Sale spent fuel temperature in 5 and 6 If the conditions remain the reactor number four, the ones that according to the International Atomic Energy Agency "of greatest concern," a new cause for alarm in Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant is temperature increase also in the containment of the spent fuel rods in reactors # 5 and 6.
And 'the opinion of Andrew Graham, director of scientific Yukiya Amano, Director-General of the UN control. The bars actually spent retain high levels of radioactivity and, therefore, are at risk of overheating, so it must be maintained at a temperature above 25 degrees centigrade in the reactor 5, but the same temperature is increased up to 65.5 degrees, an increase of 2.8 compared to the previous survey.
In the reactor instead of 6 is 62 degrees, an increase of 2 when compared all'altroieri. As to the fourth reactor, being always the IAEA, does not really know if the current situation: the ultimate measurement of heat dates from March 15, even when the temperature is 84 degrees Celsius, more than three times the maximum allowed.
While at units 1, 2 and 3 remain "relatively stable," Graham warned that the 5 and 6, precisely because of overheating, "has lowered the water level" coverage of the bars in the containment. Both reactors at the time of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake last Friday were not operational, but the spent fuel that makes them still contain potentially dangerous.
9:35 - TEPCO think Chernobyl solution: "Pouring of concrete" The Japanese engineers have explicitly recognized that, to prevent nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, the only solution would be to bury the nuclear plant with a flow of sand and concrete, the same method used in Chernobyl to contain the nuclear disaster in 1986.
A Fukushima you struggle for days to cool the reactor: this morning and 'resumed the discharge of water on the No. 3 reactor, the most worrying' cause also uses plutonium (an isotope of highly dangerous to human health), and technicians are also trying to restart the supply of electricity in order to replace water pumps necessary to curb the overheating of the fuel.
But for the first time this morning the company 'that operates the facility has admitted that bury under a layer of cement the huge complex could be an option, and the news and' a sign that piecemeal measures to cool are having little success . "It 's not impossible to enclose the reactor in concrete.
But our first priority 'now and' to cool before, "said an official of TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power, during a press conference. 8:39 - reopened for emergency flights Airport Sendai Airport Sendai, flooded by the tsunami that hit the northeast of Japan after the earthquake last Friday, was reopened for aircraft and helicopters of the emergency.
Some ports damaged by the tsunami have been reopened to maritime traffic as the highway of Tohoku, the main roads. Also broken down the rail link between Morioka, the capital of the prefecture of Iwate and Akita. At present, however, the fuel shortage continues to impact on relief operations and the arrival of humanitarian aid.
8:26 - The head of the UN atomic arrived in Tokyo The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiyo Amano came to Japan to personally check the worsening nuclear crisis in Fukushima, while the budget continues to rise the victims of a powerful earthquake followed by tsunami last March 11.
Amano said he wanted to collect detailed information from Japanese authorities to decide what is the best help from the IAEA. It will be a short visit of the Japanese love who will return soon in Vienna to discuss the situation in the IAEA Board. 7:26 - More than 6,500 confirmed dead. But they could get to 20 thousand The death toll confermatedel last week's earthquake - 6,539 - exceeded that of the victims of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which killed 6,434 people, according to the latest figures released by Japanese police.
The more than 10,000 are missing and there are fears that the final budget may exceed the 20,000 victims. Read the news hour by hour yesterday 
The IAEA Director-General arrives in Tokyo to "see for themselves what happened." Obama also announced that the U.S. will be revised safety standards of nuclear power. It denounced the U.S.: the Japanese government does not say everything about the extent of the tragedy. 17.04 - Firefighters spray coolant on the reactor via a new attempt to contain the crisis at the nuclear plant in Fukushima Dai-ichi.
The firemen began to spray on a reactor coolant system, announced the news agency Kyodo News. 16:28 - IAEA board meets Monday The agency board of the IAEA, the Council of 35 Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency will meet in special session next Monday to hear the report of the Director General Yukiya Amano on his visit to Japan in these days following the crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami at the nuclear plant in Fukushima.
In a statement, the IAEA announced that the Board will meet at its headquarters in Vienna on Monday morning and love to inform member states on emergency nuclear power in Japan, after returning from his visit to the country (17-19 March). 16.09 - Panel Data Survey, only 22% of Italians are favorable to nuclear power after the earthquake in Japan falls significantly in Italy the proportion of favorable to nuclear power: the consensus, in fact, down from 40.5% in 2010 to 22% in recent days.
The fee for, then drops to 16% at the prospect that a nuclear power plant could be built near their homes. The referendum called for June could stop the path towards the use of nuclear energy in our country undertaken by the Government: to date, 58% of respondents, substantially all opposed to nuclear energy, states that will vote.
These are the main points that emerged from a survey of Padua Panel Data on a sample of 800 Italian citizens. 15:42 - Galan: "Drama Japan leads to reflection" serious administration decide rationally, but it can not disregard the feelings and emotion of the people. Certainly the dramatic story of Japan leads us to reflect.
" This was stated by Agriculture Minister Giancarlo Galan entering the Ministry of Economic Development for the meeting with banks and businesses on the review of incentives for renewable sources. 15:19 WHO: "I do not need restrictions on air travel" is not necessary to impose some restrictions on air travel to Japan to protect the public health, apart from the area with a radius of 30 km around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
According to Herbert Puempel, the World Health Organization, unless changes in the situation of radiation emissions from the plant, there is no reason to ban air travel. A position confirmed by the WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, who said in Tokyo as "the radioactivity increased slightly, but remains below the level of risk to health." It is currently considered "small" level of risk to health over a radius of 30 km around the station.
15.14 - ECB intervention to weaken yen estimated 5 billion in today's action, the Central Bank to weaken the yen, as part of joint action by the G7, is estimated at 5 billion euro. The said James Pearson, a number of currency trading at Nomura Securities International in London. The action by the ECB would take place through the purchase of euro yen.
For this reason, the European currency, which is currently estimated 114.47 yen in the morning has rocketed up to the day of 115.50 yen. 15.12 - IAEA extraordinary meeting in Vienna Monday the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will hold an emergency meeting on the tragedy in Japan next Monday in Vienna.
The Director-General Yukiya Amano, left yesterday for the Asian country and be back tomorrow, relazionerà at that time the other members of the organization. The meeting will begin at 11:00 and will last one day. 15.11 - Madrid sends plane to evacuate the Spanish government in Madrid has decided to send a plane to Japan to evacuate the citizens of Spain who want to leave the country, stated the deputy Alfredo Rubalcaba.
The plane, "a jumbo jet with 450 people" will leave Spain "in the coming hours," from Japan and will return Sunday, said the 'number 2' of the government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero. About 2 thousand Spaniards living in Japan for about 300 hours have expressed their desire to leave the country, said the vice premier.
15.09 - WHO: "Travel without restrictions" Organiazzione The World Health Organisation (WHO) does not intend for now issue notices of restrictions on travel in Japan. Except for the area around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, "from a public health point of view, there is no reason not to travel" to Tokyo or Japan, said a WHO spokesman in Geneva today.
But each individual will assess the situation as it deems best, and according to its criteria, said spokesman Gregory Hartl, referring to the crisis at Fushimi Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. 14:59 - Omm "Radioactivity areas with low air" The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said it had not observed radioactivity in the upper tiers of the atmosphere after nuclear accident in Japan, but only in very low areas.
"It 's a totally different situation from what happened in Ukraine, at Chernobyl, when there was a large fire on the site that carried the radioactive material in areas del'atmosfera high, which allowed a wide distribution of radioactivity," Puempel said Herbert, head of the division head of the Meteorological Division of WMO.
The current situation in Japan, however, "all the information in our possession indicate that the issue is limited to very basic areas of the atmosphere," said Puempel. For the expert, the current situation there is no reason to fear for international air travel. 14:22 - rating agencies cut TEPCO International agencies Moody's and Standard and Poor's announced the cut of two notes of the long-term rating of TEPCO, Japan, the company that manages the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
The move, says Moody's, reflects the severe impact from the earthquake and the tsunami is "potentially massive costs" associated with it, and the 'negative impact on the financial condition and the profile of the credit "of society. The Moody's rating changed from 'Aa2' to 'A1' and remains under investigation for possible downgrading.
Standard and Poor's has taken a similar initiative, reducing TEPCO's rating from 'A +' to 'A-1'. The agency believes that "operating performance will continue to deteriorate and it will take a long time before a recovery." Also estimated a 25% reduction in the ability 'to generate energy TEPCO, because of the many plants near finished out of Fukushima.
14:21 - No immediate risk of contamination, but the air is panic in China and Chinese waters "are not at immediate risk of contamination" following the explosion of Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima, but in the last hour there has been panic in different parts of the country, and yesterday the Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu in Beijing asked the Nipponese authorities to share information on the crisis "in a timely and accurate." As you read about AgiChina24, China, meanwhile, has decided to suspend plans for the construction of new nuclear power stations and the Beijing authorities have ordered to check the security measures of the 13 existing reactors and 27 under construction.
The latest reports date back to late on Thursday and show no sign of the levels of radioactivity above normal levels in the air of 41 different Chinese cities. "Over the next three days, the fallout will affect mainly the waters off the coast of Fukushima - according to a statement from the National Center for Environmental Prediction maritime Beijing - and the contaminants, which previously had reached the coast northeast of Tokyo, They moved to the east with the current.
" The supermarkets in many Chinese cities, however, have spent hours on stocks of salt after wave of panic that has spread from the coastal province of Zhejiang in other areas, such as the rich industrial province of Guangdong, and even in the capital Beijing and in the city of Chongqing, which is thousands of miles from the coast.
The rush is driven by the voice, however unfounded, according to which the salt fortified with iodine is used to prevent radiation. There were also record purchases of basic necessities. The National Commission for Reform and Development has released yesterday a note of urgency with which calls on local authorities to counter rumors about food shortages and the need to procure stocks of essential supplies.
The Commission has announced it is working with all relevant authorities to maintain a stable price level. 13:43 - EHP: "Even a high risk of cancer survivors in Chernobyl 25 years was not enough to decrease the risk of cancer in people who lived near Chernobyl at the time of the accident.
According to a study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the probability of contracting cancer of the thyroid is still equal to the days following the disaster. The study, conducted by the American National Institute of Health, examined 12,500 people who were under 18 at the time of the accident, two months later by measuring levels of iodine-131 in their thyroid.
In the 22 years after 65 people were diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and was double the probability for each gray (unit of absorbed radiation) measured in patients. "We have found no evidence during the trial that indicated a decrease in the time of cancer risk - the researchers wrote - what we have observed is that the absorption of radiation from iodine-131 is proportional to the risk of cancer, not seems to subside with time.
" According to experts, the first decrease in the risk of exposure occurs after 30 years, but in 40 years this is still higher than normal. 13:32 - EU ready to give technical assistance to central European Union is ready to provide technical assistance, "if Japan asks for it," for cooling operations of nuclear reactors.
The spokeswoman said the EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger. The spokesman explained that there will need about a year's work, since it was established in 357 days, the cooling time. "We want to be ready if there is to ask for help if needed and provide staff," said Marlene Holzner.
Next Monday, when EU energy ministers meeting, said the spokesman again, Commissioner Oettinger will propose to the ministers of Japan to provide "assistance in a coordinated manner, if asked, not only with staff but also with machines. 13:23 - French Universities attract students French universities attract students, teachers and researchers, about 350 people, who are still in Japan.
A "highly recommend" The repatriation is the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), which represents 83 universities in the country. The CPU recommended to students and university staff to use "all logistical means available to them" to leave Japan, because of the nuclear risk. The Ministry of Higher Education has already said that "facilitate" 'the return of university students and their reintegration in the universities.
13:21 - Finland embassy move from Tokyo to Hiroshima In the face of nuclear threat, the Finnish government has decided to move the capital from the Japanese embassy in Hiroshima. This, said the Foreign Ministry in Helsinki, is a precautionary measure due to the uncertainty of the security situation in the capital.
Along the same lines have moved yesterday also representatives of Germany and Austria who were transferred to Osaka. Instead remain open to the Tokyo embassy of France, Britain and Switzerland and Italian. 13.20 - Puppin, Politecnico di Milano. "Sarcophagus only solution, but practically impossible" To the point where the situation in the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, a concrete sarcophagus that covers everything like it was done at Chernobyl is the only solution at this point, but "it is almost a solution impossible.
" It 's the opinion of Ezio Puppin, a nuclear engineer at the Polytechnic of Milan. "In Chernobyl," recalls Puppin, "put a sarcophagus weighing 100,000 tons and has already 'cracks and crevices. Furthermore, given the weight is sinking into the ground. In short, and 'unstable and they' had to play only one reactor, while in Fukushima are at least four.
" It would, from an engineering perspective, "an unprecedented amount of 'concrete square meters and used to be filled, compared to a gigantic work which the pyramid of Cheops and' a joke. The only comparable works are large dams, and it takes years. " 13:13 - Here are the control centers for returnees from Japan For Italians returning from Japan after the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March, here is the list of focal points identified by the regions, able to provide assistance where necessary to Italian citizens or foreigners, from Japan, wanted to undergo checks following radiation emergency.
The list, which will be updated as further typing arrive from other regions, has been published on the website of the Ministry of Health. Emilia Romagna: Ospedali Riuniti di Parma, Ospedale S. Orsola-Malpighi in Bologna, Bufalini Hospital of Cesena. Lazio: San Camillo Hospital in Rome, University Hospital A.
Gemelli in Rome, Sant'Andrea Hospital of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I in Rome; Hospitaller physiotherapy institutes (Ifo) in Rome. Liguria: University Hospital St. Martino di Genova, Galliera Hospital Corporation Hospital in Genoa. Lombardia: Ospedale Niguarda Ca 'Granda, Milan, Circolo Macchi di Varese Hospital, Circolo Hospital of Busto Arsizio (Varese), Bergamo Hospital, Civil Hospital of Brescia, Cremona Institutes of Hospitallers.
Tuscany: the Careggi Hospital in Florence, Pisa University Hospital - the Hospital Santa Chiara di Pisa. Valle d'Aosta Regional Hospital Umberto Parini - Radiology Service, Geneva Avenue, 3. 12:59 - Airlift humanitarian aid takes off today from an airlift of humanitarian aid from the EU to Japan.
The spokesman of the EU commissioner for humanitarian aid Kristalina Georgieva. Also today, the spokesman said Brigandi Raphael, will visit Japan in 15 European experts in civil protection assistance to arrange with local partners and the International Red Cross. Member States have shown a great willingness and arrived several bids, said the spokesman.
Japan will send tents, sleeping bags and sets. 12:34 - Aiea: "Although diesel generator to cool down" next to fire hydrants and aglielicotteri, to cool the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, is now also used a diesel generator, as announced by the IAEA in Vienna in its latest update this morning , Japanese rough on the plant.
An emergency generator, water pump in the reactor 6 in the cooling tanks of fuel used for reactors 5 and 6, where the temperature is rising. According to the IAEA, attempted yesterday to lower the temperature in the tanks gave poor results: in the reactor 5 was increased from 64.2 to 65.5 degrees, while in the reactor 6 was slightly decreased from 62.5 degrees 62.
The normal temperature in the cooling tanks should be 25 degrees celsius. 12.30 - TEPCO: "Tomorrow maybe current reactors 1, 2 and 4" Engineers may be able to restore power in the reactor 4 of the Fukushima No. 1 plant tomorrow morning. TEPCO said, the company that operates the damaged.
Previously, the Japanese agency for nuclear safety had spoken of the possibility of restoring the power units 1 and 2 in the morning. 12.25 - Naoto Kan, "We will resume" the nuclear crisis in Japan "remains very serious" but "Japan will recover." This was stated today the Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
"Rebuilding the country from the ruins," he said, adding that he himself "a citizen", "work hard" for the revival of Japan. "After the Second World War we had a miraculous economic growth due to the efforts of the Japanese people. And that is how the Japanese nation has been reconstructed, "the premier said Kan.
The prime minister stressed that all citizens should "be united and work hand in hand and try to understand what each can do for the country." Speaking to nearly 600 thousand displaced persons accommodated in temporary shelters without power, food and medicine, Kan said he was suffering know that the situation is difficult, and promised that the government provide them with everything necessary to resume a normal life.
"We must be strong and believe that we recover, we can not afford to be pessimistic," said the premier. 12.22 - Tsunami flooded 400 square kilometers are in total at least 400 square kilometers of land inundated by the tsunami of last Friday, which is generated by the disastrous earthquake of magnitude 9.0: The Authority has announced the Geo-spatial Japanese, on the basis of 'analysis of aerial photographs and satellite built in the north-east of the country.
However there are still similar surveys over an area equal to 20 percent of that invested by the tidal wave, so the figure is expected to grow further. Even so, he did however note the specialized institution, it is the biggest impact ever had in Japan by a tsunami. 12.07 - Cappellacci vs Hack: "Sardinia says no to nuclear power, has already made" (v.
10.13) I always suggest that proponents of nuclear power plants are carried far from home. None of them asked to do a few miles from his yard. This is a fact symptomatic and detector, which convinces us even more of our opposition. " So the President of Sardinia Region, Ugo Cappellacci said the statements of astrophysics Margherita Hack, pro-nuclear, for which you need to choose safe areas such as Sardinia.
"Sardinia does not want nuclear power plants. It 'a conscious choice, based on deep and strong motivation, not on emotion aroused by the events that took place in Japan. Our Island - said Cappellacci - has taken the decision with another path: that of the green-economy, renewable energies, development of a model compatible with our environmental heritage and landscape.
Sardinia has also paid a strong tribute to the reason of state, sacrificing to it some of its most evocative. We have already given and will not endure more hardship. Indeed, since the conditions have changed in the past have helped to aggravate the military and our land easements other weights, Sardinia calls for scaling them.
Thirdly, it is unacceptable under the pretext of an alleged increased security, think of the crop to other nuclear plants. The only security that would be more reliable in this way, in fact, would be to those who come across the sea. Professor Hack will spend his scientific arguments with his neighbors.
In Sardinia we have already chosen. " 11:47 - Japanese government "major disaster slowed reaction" The Japanese government has been overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster that struck Japan last week and why the reaction to the earthquake and tsunami has been slowed. The spokesman said the executive Yukio Edan, as reported by the BBC.
11:36 - At Fiumicino controls on imported foods are also underway at the airport diFiumicino controls on products of animal or vegetable origin coming from Japan, hit by the earthquake that caused a serious radioactive leak in a nuclear power plant Kukushima. In the Roman airport inspections, according to new provisions of the Health Ministry are carried out in the Cargo City - the city of the airport market.
Observe all the loads of food from Japan (seafood, caviar, soy, seaweed, green tea), made after 11 March, the day of the earthquake and tsunami. Imports of such goods in Fiumicino - stand out in the offices of airline health - are also very limited. The blockade of the goods, according to the provisions of Ministerial Decree, may last one, at most two days to allow the experts to analyze safety hazards.
The samples taken for analysis, in fact, are sent to laboratories in the case of Fiumicino Institute Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Lazio and Tuscany, with headquarters in Rome. There is, however, no limits with regard to import the products for which there is the certification package before 11 March.
11.13 - IAEA measure radioactivity in Tokyo The IAEA, the International Agency for Atomic Energy, will undertake 'day in the measurement of radioactivity levels in Tokyo, in order to reassure the people of Japan's capital city: the Director-General announced the UN agency, Yukiya Amano, who is visiting in his native Japan.
"We hope that this initiative will help to reassure the Japanese public," said Amano, quoted by the press 'Jiji', "since it is an international authority that will make its findings parallel to those conducted by the Government of Japan" 11.08 - Italy Embassy in Tokyo is open Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has given instructions to keep it open the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo.
With this policy decision by the Italian Government intends to send a signal of friendship with Japan, a country friend and member of the G8, which Italy hopes to overcome with his usual courage and determination in the difficult moment, and for which the recovery 'Italy offers its support as of now.
This choice is motivated also by the need to continue to ensure maximum effectiveness in helping fellow citizens in the metropolitan region in the Japanese capital. The Ambassador of Italy, Vincenzo Petrone, stays in Tokyo. Remain operational even the presidium of the crisis cell set up by the Embassy in Tokyo Narita airport for the drainage of the Italians who were to leave Japan with Alitalia and other airlines that still fly from that airport.
Self defense is in operation at the international airport in Osaka. 10:48 - Head: "Japan very serious incident" would really be "foolish to pretend nothing" after the nuclear accident in Japan, an incident "very, very serious" and "The Italian government is doing what he is doing all of Europe A reflection to understand what is happening.
" This was stated by the President of the Italian Nuclear Forum, Chicco Testa, speaking at the microphones of "The call", the heading of Mauritius Belpietro aired in Five Morning on Channel 5. Testa added that Europe needs to find solutions because we can not abandon nuclear power. And, looking at Italy, the former CEO of Enel said that before the world, if we fail to manage waste in Naples are not credible in dealing with nuclear power.
The problem, said head still, is the credibility of our bipartisan political establishment and institutional. 10:47 - More $ 3 trillion yen to stabilize markets The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has decisoun'ulteriore cash injection of 3,000 billion yen (37 billion dollars) in the country's financial system to calm the market.
This brings to 37,000 billion yen from the BOJ, the total liquidity pumped into the Japanese financial system, as reported by the BBC online. 10:29 - Japanese government: "Success in reactor 3 versamentoacqua" It seems the successful operation of discharge of water through the use of tank-trucks and fire engines, three of the nuclear power reactor in Fukushima 1: it said in a press conference the spokesman the Government of Japan, Yukio Edan, that have been around 64 tons of liquid placed inside the reactor so far, which is of particular concern because it uses nuclear fuel rods containing uranium as well, including plutonium.
Edan has admitted that it has "definitive information" on the situation in reactor three, but added that the water seems to have reached the holding tank of spent fuel, however dangerous, because the structure has dawned a new, large cloud steam. On the website of the Central Self-Defense Forces of Japan, namely the army, mobilized seven specialized vehicles, in three days should pass on the additional 50 tons of ballast water.
10.18 - Future: "Reasonable period of reflection" Nuclear power plants "are not triggered and bombs are designed and built with the criteria and systems from generation to generation ever more sophisticated." But a pause for reflection is necessary if "just where he would never have happened, it was enough that nature take its course" and "now the world is afraid, now we are afraid." And 'what we read in an editorial devoted to a discussion of future of the nuclear option in Italy in light of what is happening in Japan.
A situation, it is stated in the article published in the newspaper of the Italian bishops, who "goes too far the ideological confrontation between nuclear and anti-nuclear apocalyptic". "We need energy to survive, grow or manage a development more or less consolidated. But we really need that energy? "Asks Avvenire, recalling" the sun, wind, water, waste, maybe even the coal and its smoke.
And the oil, gas. " That is "a simple call for calm, reflection and rationality" appears "reasonable but even surprising," said Future, in the hope that "tomorrow's diatribe policy" does not remain "the uncertain margins granted yesterday." 10.13 - Hack: "Plants need now referendum useless" (v.
12:07) "If it had never threatened we would not even fire, we would still be in the stone age", which is why the astrophysicist Margherita Hack advocates nuclear. "Nuclear power - said in an interview with The Associated Press - involve a danger and should be approached with great seriousness, that often is missing in Italy, and rationally." The creation of new power plants, says the scientist, is necessary even if there exists the problem of the shape of Italy, which is a seismic country.
Then you must choose very carefully safe areas such as Sardinia. Now, he adds, with the Japanese Tragedy "is perfectly useless to the referendum, the result is obvious: there will be an avalanche of no." 10.03 - IAEA raises risk level from 4 to 5 on a scale of 7 Japan has raised the alarm at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Fukushima n1) from 4 to 5.
He reports to the IAEA, the UN agency for nuclear energy. The scale internazionaledegli nuclear and radiological events (Ines) reaches a maximum of seven. The Chernobyl accident in 86 was classified at level seven, the one at Three Mile Island in '79 to five. Three days ago, the president of the French nuclear safety Andre-Claude Lacoste, said that the accident in Fukushima was already at level 6.
Meanwhile, the Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, who arrived in Japan, said that engineers are engaged in a "race against time" to cool the reactors at the nuclear plant. 09:58 - Sale spent fuel temperature in 5 and 6 If the conditions remain the reactor number four, the ones that according to the International Atomic Energy Agency "of greatest concern," a new cause for alarm in Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant is temperature increase also in the containment of the spent fuel rods in reactors # 5 and 6.
And 'the opinion of Andrew Graham, director of scientific Yukiya Amano, Director-General of the UN control. The bars actually spent retain high levels of radioactivity and, therefore, are at risk of overheating, so it must be maintained at a temperature above 25 degrees centigrade in the reactor 5, but the same temperature is increased up to 65.5 degrees, an increase of 2.8 compared to the previous survey.
In the reactor instead of 6 is 62 degrees, an increase of 2 when compared all'altroieri. As to the fourth reactor, being always the IAEA, does not really know if the current situation: the ultimate measurement of heat dates from March 15, even when the temperature is 84 degrees Celsius, more than three times the maximum allowed.
While at units 1, 2 and 3 remain "relatively stable," Graham warned that the 5 and 6, precisely because of overheating, "has lowered the water level" coverage of the bars in the containment. Both reactors at the time of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake last Friday were not operational, but the spent fuel that makes them still contain potentially dangerous.
9:35 - TEPCO think Chernobyl solution: "Pouring of concrete" The Japanese engineers have explicitly recognized that, to prevent nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, the only solution would be to bury the nuclear plant with a flow of sand and concrete, the same method used in Chernobyl to contain the nuclear disaster in 1986.
A Fukushima you struggle for days to cool the reactor: this morning and 'resumed the discharge of water on the No. 3 reactor, the most worrying' cause also uses plutonium (an isotope of highly dangerous to human health), and technicians are also trying to restart the supply of electricity in order to replace water pumps necessary to curb the overheating of the fuel.
But for the first time this morning the company 'that operates the facility has admitted that bury under a layer of cement the huge complex could be an option, and the news and' a sign that piecemeal measures to cool are having little success . "It 's not impossible to enclose the reactor in concrete.
But our first priority 'now and' to cool before, "said an official of TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power, during a press conference. 8:39 - reopened for emergency flights Airport Sendai Airport Sendai, flooded by the tsunami that hit the northeast of Japan after the earthquake last Friday, was reopened for aircraft and helicopters of the emergency.
Some ports damaged by the tsunami have been reopened to maritime traffic as the highway of Tohoku, the main roads. Also broken down the rail link between Morioka, the capital of the prefecture of Iwate and Akita. At present, however, the fuel shortage continues to impact on relief operations and the arrival of humanitarian aid.
8:26 - The head of the UN atomic arrived in Tokyo The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiyo Amano came to Japan to personally check the worsening nuclear crisis in Fukushima, while the budget continues to rise the victims of a powerful earthquake followed by tsunami last March 11.
Amano said he wanted to collect detailed information from Japanese authorities to decide what is the best help from the IAEA. It will be a short visit of the Japanese love who will return soon in Vienna to discuss the situation in the IAEA Board. 7:26 - More than 6,500 confirmed dead. But they could get to 20 thousand The death toll confermatedel last week's earthquake - 6,539 - exceeded that of the victims of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which killed 6,434 people, according to the latest figures released by Japanese police.
The more than 10,000 are missing and there are fears that the final budget may exceed the 20,000 victims. Read the news hour by hour yesterday
- In defense of TEPCO, NISA, and the handling of Fukushima (15/03/2011)
- Between the Poles: Fukushima Daiichi: TEPCO Starts Work to Restore Off-site Power (17/03/2011)
- TEPCO was ready to give up and abdicate on 14th March (18/03/2011)
- Between the Poles: TEPCO Releases Image of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 (16/03/2011)
- TEPCO delayed using sea water for cooling until instructed to (16/03/2011)
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