The Japanese Nuclear Safety Agency has identified a rate of radioiodine 1,250 times higher than normal sea in an area 330 meters south of the central Fukushima 1, according to Kyodo news agency reported. The data is added to the statement from the operator of the plant, TEPCO, which has been reported that the radioactive leak detected in the water is higher than expected, which could delay the work reaunudación cooling, because the problem must cooling pool.
Overall, a new setback in Japan living nuclear crisis since the earthquake and tsunami of 11 days severely damaged the central Fukushima I. However, the government spokesman Yukio Edan, said today that the situation in the plant is stable within the seriousness, "is not getting worse," said, "but it requires vigilance." The company has been, therefore, forced to change its strategy in central Fukushima due to high radiation levels, making it impossible to use the integrated cooling system even though they have already restored the electricity supply.
On Thursday, three workers were exposed to 200 millisievert rates per hour in the reactor's turbine building number 3, which precipitated the change of plans. In an effort to keep jobs cooling, followed by spraying units 1 and 3, but now fresh water rather than seawater, as it did in the early days of the operation.
Technicians today aspire to be able to turn the lights on the reactor 2, after retrieving the connection to the electricity grid in the entire complex, NHK reported. At the same time maintaining its efforts to cool the reactor tankers. Eviction of the band between 20 and 30 kilometers The Government yesterday urged people living in the age between 20 and 30 miles from the plant to the leaves, but said the measure "voluntary time and that affects about 130,000 people, was due to the difficulty of sending supplies.
"As the situation continues, it would be desirable for people to leave voluntarily to meet their social needs," said Yukio Edan, government spokesman. So far, authorities have advised residents of the area to stay inside buildings. Edan insisted that there was no need to extend the exclusion zone decreed after the tsunami, which reaches 20 km and affected 70,000 people, although, in practice, the move means its expansion.
Science ministry officials said yesterday that the level of daily radiation in an area 30 kilometers northwest of the plant exceeded the annual limit. United States and Britain have urged their nationals to stay away within 80 kilometers of the plant by the risks of radioactivity. Cracks in the reactor 3? The eviction announcement coincides with the suspicion that the reactor core 3 has been cracked, which could result in the issuance of a much larger amount of radioactivity that has escaped so far.
This reactor is the most dangerous of the six who has the floor, since it is the only one using plutonium in their fuel mix, which is much more toxic than uranium used in the other units. The suspicion that there is a crack came after two emergency workers struggling team two weeks ago to stabilize and control center on Thursday were hospitalized with burns after getting into water with radioactivity levels 10,000 times higher than has a reactor is operating normally.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Agency's Nuclear and Industrial Safety, said the reason for the high radiation was unclear, and could be due to rupture of the reactor as problems in other systems, as the network of pipes or ducts ventilation. TEPCO, the company that operates the plant, said it was possible that the appropriate radioactive water from the reactor core.
The government spokesman acknowledged that the accident suffered by workers reveals that "security measures may not be appropriate" and that may have contributed to increased anxiety among the population about crisis management. The earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Honshu, the main island of the archipelago caused more than 10,000 dead and 17,400 missing, according to the latest official figures, which adds to the anxiety triggered by the possibility of a catastrophe like Chernobyl in 1986, a scenario that seems unlikely at this point, experts say, but just not clear.
Concern persists. "I'm concerned. The recent events are not good. I thought the situation would settle and is taking longer than expected," said Shozo Katayama, 37, theatrical producer. Katayama says no plans to leave Tokyo, unlike what they have done many Japanese and foreigners fleeing the potential risk of a radioactive cloud, and shows stoic.
"What can we do. This is what we live. We have no choice but to fight," he said. And with the threat of tap water in Tokyo have potentially harmful levels of radioactivity, said: "At home I have three bottles of two liters of water." After the alert for the highly radioactive, but not harmful, the Tokyo government said Thursday that the levels had returned to below the threshold of risk.
Experts believe that radiation was transported by wind from the central Fukushima and rain led to rivers. The nuclear accident is 240 kilometers north of the capital. More than 700 technicians continue to work in shifts to stabilize the four reactors in unstable situation. Many supermarkets in Tokyo are still mineral water, after the people hoarding bottles.
Leakage of radioactivity were also affected milk and a dozen types of vegetables in the prefectures surrounding the nuclear plant, which has led countries like USA, Australia, Singapore and Russia to ban food imports from that area. The Japanese agency Kyodo said that cesium has been identified with a radiation level of 1.8 times normal in vegetables grown in a research center in Tokyo.
China said it had detected radioactivity above normal in two travelers arrived from Tokyo. TEPCO said it may take at least another month to achieve cold shutdown of the plant, ie the reactor temperature drops below the boiling point and cooling systems to return to atmospheric pressure. 
Overall, a new setback in Japan living nuclear crisis since the earthquake and tsunami of 11 days severely damaged the central Fukushima I. However, the government spokesman Yukio Edan, said today that the situation in the plant is stable within the seriousness, "is not getting worse," said, "but it requires vigilance." The company has been, therefore, forced to change its strategy in central Fukushima due to high radiation levels, making it impossible to use the integrated cooling system even though they have already restored the electricity supply.
On Thursday, three workers were exposed to 200 millisievert rates per hour in the reactor's turbine building number 3, which precipitated the change of plans. In an effort to keep jobs cooling, followed by spraying units 1 and 3, but now fresh water rather than seawater, as it did in the early days of the operation.
Technicians today aspire to be able to turn the lights on the reactor 2, after retrieving the connection to the electricity grid in the entire complex, NHK reported. At the same time maintaining its efforts to cool the reactor tankers. Eviction of the band between 20 and 30 kilometers The Government yesterday urged people living in the age between 20 and 30 miles from the plant to the leaves, but said the measure "voluntary time and that affects about 130,000 people, was due to the difficulty of sending supplies.
"As the situation continues, it would be desirable for people to leave voluntarily to meet their social needs," said Yukio Edan, government spokesman. So far, authorities have advised residents of the area to stay inside buildings. Edan insisted that there was no need to extend the exclusion zone decreed after the tsunami, which reaches 20 km and affected 70,000 people, although, in practice, the move means its expansion.
Science ministry officials said yesterday that the level of daily radiation in an area 30 kilometers northwest of the plant exceeded the annual limit. United States and Britain have urged their nationals to stay away within 80 kilometers of the plant by the risks of radioactivity. Cracks in the reactor 3? The eviction announcement coincides with the suspicion that the reactor core 3 has been cracked, which could result in the issuance of a much larger amount of radioactivity that has escaped so far.
This reactor is the most dangerous of the six who has the floor, since it is the only one using plutonium in their fuel mix, which is much more toxic than uranium used in the other units. The suspicion that there is a crack came after two emergency workers struggling team two weeks ago to stabilize and control center on Thursday were hospitalized with burns after getting into water with radioactivity levels 10,000 times higher than has a reactor is operating normally.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Agency's Nuclear and Industrial Safety, said the reason for the high radiation was unclear, and could be due to rupture of the reactor as problems in other systems, as the network of pipes or ducts ventilation. TEPCO, the company that operates the plant, said it was possible that the appropriate radioactive water from the reactor core.
The government spokesman acknowledged that the accident suffered by workers reveals that "security measures may not be appropriate" and that may have contributed to increased anxiety among the population about crisis management. The earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Honshu, the main island of the archipelago caused more than 10,000 dead and 17,400 missing, according to the latest official figures, which adds to the anxiety triggered by the possibility of a catastrophe like Chernobyl in 1986, a scenario that seems unlikely at this point, experts say, but just not clear.
Concern persists. "I'm concerned. The recent events are not good. I thought the situation would settle and is taking longer than expected," said Shozo Katayama, 37, theatrical producer. Katayama says no plans to leave Tokyo, unlike what they have done many Japanese and foreigners fleeing the potential risk of a radioactive cloud, and shows stoic.
"What can we do. This is what we live. We have no choice but to fight," he said. And with the threat of tap water in Tokyo have potentially harmful levels of radioactivity, said: "At home I have three bottles of two liters of water." After the alert for the highly radioactive, but not harmful, the Tokyo government said Thursday that the levels had returned to below the threshold of risk.
Experts believe that radiation was transported by wind from the central Fukushima and rain led to rivers. The nuclear accident is 240 kilometers north of the capital. More than 700 technicians continue to work in shifts to stabilize the four reactors in unstable situation. Many supermarkets in Tokyo are still mineral water, after the people hoarding bottles.
Leakage of radioactivity were also affected milk and a dozen types of vegetables in the prefectures surrounding the nuclear plant, which has led countries like USA, Australia, Singapore and Russia to ban food imports from that area. The Japanese agency Kyodo said that cesium has been identified with a radiation level of 1.8 times normal in vegetables grown in a research center in Tokyo.
China said it had detected radioactivity above normal in two travelers arrived from Tokyo. TEPCO said it may take at least another month to achieve cold shutdown of the plant, ie the reactor temperature drops below the boiling point and cooling systems to return to atmospheric pressure.
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