.- The maximum global nuclear inspector said Saturday that Japan was "still far from the end of the accident" at his compound in Fukushima, reported The New York Times. Yukiya Amano, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, for its acronym in English) warned that the emergency could last for weeks or even months.
Amano spoke to the Times by telephone from Vienna, where the headquarters. Radiation levels have risen in the seawater near the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima Daiichi, Japanese officials said Saturday, while engineers struggle to stabilize the power station two weeks after being struck by an earthquake and a tsunami.
The experts were trying to pump out the water plant radioactive, then was detected in the buildings that house three of the six reactors. On Thursday, three workers were burned in the reactor number 3, after having been exposed to radiation levels 10 000 times higher than those usually found there.
Amano, who according to the Times recently made another trip to Japan, said authorities still are not sure if the cores of the reactors and spent fuel would have been covered with water for cooling. The director told the newspaper he saw a few "positive signals" to the restoration of electrical power to the plant.
But, he added, "should be made more efforts to complete the accident", but stressed he was not criticizing the response of Japan. Amano Japan is a former diplomat who took command of the IAEA in late 2009. He said his biggest concern is focused on used fuel rods that are discovered in the cooling pools open at the top of the reactor buildings.
Amano was not sure if they had been unsuccessful efforts to spray water in swimming pools to prevent the rods will burn and release large amount of radioactive material. If the pools are filled with water, but do not repair the cooling system "temperature rise," said Amano, raising the threat of new radioactive leaks.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located about 240 kilometers north of the capital, Tokyo. 
Amano spoke to the Times by telephone from Vienna, where the headquarters. Radiation levels have risen in the seawater near the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima Daiichi, Japanese officials said Saturday, while engineers struggle to stabilize the power station two weeks after being struck by an earthquake and a tsunami.
The experts were trying to pump out the water plant radioactive, then was detected in the buildings that house three of the six reactors. On Thursday, three workers were burned in the reactor number 3, after having been exposed to radiation levels 10 000 times higher than those usually found there.
Amano, who according to the Times recently made another trip to Japan, said authorities still are not sure if the cores of the reactors and spent fuel would have been covered with water for cooling. The director told the newspaper he saw a few "positive signals" to the restoration of electrical power to the plant.
But, he added, "should be made more efforts to complete the accident", but stressed he was not criticizing the response of Japan. Amano Japan is a former diplomat who took command of the IAEA in late 2009. He said his biggest concern is focused on used fuel rods that are discovered in the cooling pools open at the top of the reactor buildings.
Amano was not sure if they had been unsuccessful efforts to spray water in swimming pools to prevent the rods will burn and release large amount of radioactive material. If the pools are filled with water, but do not repair the cooling system "temperature rise," said Amano, raising the threat of new radioactive leaks.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located about 240 kilometers north of the capital, Tokyo.
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