Saturday, March 12, 2011

In Japan evacuated three miles around the two central Fukushima

.- The Japanese authorities ordered the evacuation of residents in a 3 km radius around the nuclear power Fukushima 2, affected by cooling problems, the day after a violent earthquake. Three reactors of the facility lost part of its cooling capacity, said Saturday morning, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), facility manager.

This nuclear power plant, Fukushima 2, is located 12 km from central Fukushima 1, where the control room of reactor morning recorded a level of radioactivity thousand times higher than normal, Kyodo said, citing a commission security. The two stations are located approximately 250 km north of Tokyo in the region affected by the violent quake registered 8.9 magnitude on Friday.

Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, ordered some 45 thousand people to evacuate the area within a radius of 10 km around the central Fukushima 1.

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