"Tokyo is a city deserted, trying to get back to normal. The people you meet on the subway, are grieving but composed. " First impressions of the 6 Italian engineers landed in Tokyo to cooperate with the Japanese Foreign Ministry is that of a country bent, but does everything to get up. "We arrived on March 15," says Giuseppe Maresca, a nuclear engineer from the Higher Institute for the Protection and Environmental Research, "we were in the Japanese capital four days to monitor the situation and understand what were the authorities' requests.
Particularly in need of aid in the identification of dead bodies and care, including health care, the evacuees. " Maresca, who has returned from three days in the emergency room ISPRA in Rome, was sent by the institution to detect levels of radioactivity in Tokyo. "The values were well below safety limits - said the engineer - but some fellow countrymen, even on the advice of the embassy, left the capital.
We stayed at the Japanese Ministry who was coordinating the emergency coordination center and the UN. In those days the most important thing was still that of finding people alive under the rubble remained. But unfortunately I have discovered only two, because the mud caused the suffocation of all who were involved in the tsunami.
It is very difficult to keep a cool head in these situations so dramatic. " The tragedy of Japan, which for now is only causing very slight impact in Europe due to emissions of the plant in Fukushima, paralyzed part of the country. "The nuclear accident is not yet closed - still Maresca - the cloud is passing over France, we measured values are ridiculous." The Ispra asked for help to other institutions of environmental protection for the delivery of physical and equipment.
Despite the important missions that place (the emergency oil spill to the north of Sardinia, the ships of the poisons in Calabria, the monitoring of biodiversity in the Strait of Sicily) the Ispra it does not receive sufficient funding to implement its workforce . Last year 200 researchers of the institute remained precarious rooftop protest for 59 days, until the environment minister, Stefania Prestigiacomo, has signed a memorandum of understanding with them.
What now remains to be dismissed. In fact only 89 people have been banned already planned, and the winners of the recruitment is far from obvious because there are still dedicated funds. Worse fate for those who remained precarious. After more than a year, and despite the agreement, for now there is no trace of the promised funding to compensate for the non-standard contracts of those who perform the same tasks of colleagues with regular contracts.
Some of them are likely to remain at home in the coming three months. "Yes, the story is this - tell a colleague precarious Maresca - we feel capable of performing such difficult tasks, but then there is no money to undertake. It is difficult to explain at home, but the fate of many who have chosen to do research in this country.
" , March 24, 2011 
Particularly in need of aid in the identification of dead bodies and care, including health care, the evacuees. " Maresca, who has returned from three days in the emergency room ISPRA in Rome, was sent by the institution to detect levels of radioactivity in Tokyo. "The values were well below safety limits - said the engineer - but some fellow countrymen, even on the advice of the embassy, left the capital.
We stayed at the Japanese Ministry who was coordinating the emergency coordination center and the UN. In those days the most important thing was still that of finding people alive under the rubble remained. But unfortunately I have discovered only two, because the mud caused the suffocation of all who were involved in the tsunami.
It is very difficult to keep a cool head in these situations so dramatic. " The tragedy of Japan, which for now is only causing very slight impact in Europe due to emissions of the plant in Fukushima, paralyzed part of the country. "The nuclear accident is not yet closed - still Maresca - the cloud is passing over France, we measured values are ridiculous." The Ispra asked for help to other institutions of environmental protection for the delivery of physical and equipment.
Despite the important missions that place (the emergency oil spill to the north of Sardinia, the ships of the poisons in Calabria, the monitoring of biodiversity in the Strait of Sicily) the Ispra it does not receive sufficient funding to implement its workforce . Last year 200 researchers of the institute remained precarious rooftop protest for 59 days, until the environment minister, Stefania Prestigiacomo, has signed a memorandum of understanding with them.
What now remains to be dismissed. In fact only 89 people have been banned already planned, and the winners of the recruitment is far from obvious because there are still dedicated funds. Worse fate for those who remained precarious. After more than a year, and despite the agreement, for now there is no trace of the promised funding to compensate for the non-standard contracts of those who perform the same tasks of colleagues with regular contracts.
Some of them are likely to remain at home in the coming three months. "Yes, the story is this - tell a colleague precarious Maresca - we feel capable of performing such difficult tasks, but then there is no money to undertake. It is difficult to explain at home, but the fate of many who have chosen to do research in this country.
" , March 24, 2011
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