The threat of a new nuclear accident Sunday, March 13 continued to soar over Japan faces its "worst crisis" since the Second World War after a powerful earthquake that has probably done more than 10,000 dead. "I consider that the current situation with the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plants, is somehow the worst crisis in 65 years since the Second World War", for Japan, "said Prime Minister Naoto kan.
Always worrying situation in the Central Fukushima The Prime Minister warned that the country was likely to experience power outages on a large scale and in particular expressed serious concern about the situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 1, where an explosion occurred Saturday in the building housing the reactor 1.
Unit 3 has had to turn Sunday similar problems with a "failure" of its cooling system. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has taken various steps to reduce the level of pressure in reactors 1 and 3. However, pumping at sea is not yet sufficient to restore the level of cooling water reactors, has recognized the operator on the night of Sunday to Monday, according to media reports.
The government warned that it could "not exclude that an explosion could occur at reactor 3, due to a possible accumulation of hydrogen. But the spokesman, Yukio Edano, assured that there would be no problem for the reactor itself. 215 000 people were evacuated within a 20 km radius around the plant, located 250 km from the metropolis of Tokyo and its 35 million inhabitants.
The nuclear accident Saturday has been assessed at Level 4 on a scale of 0 to 7, nuclear and radiological events (Ines), against 5 for the one at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979 and 7 for the one at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986. Some foreign experts do not hide their concerns, citing the risk of a disaster of great magnitude.
Eleven of the 50 nuclear reactors in Japan are closed since the earthquake, causing a significant drop in electricity supply. The government permitted Tepco Sunday to plan local disruptions in rotation, so that entire regions are immersed in the dark unpredictably. From Monday until the end of April, residents of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures suffer rotational cuts decided in advance in blocks of three hours, TEPCO announced.
The central districts of the capital, where the ministries, embassies and many government agencies and various important structures, however, should be spared. Thousands of missing the other authorities' priority is to rescue victims and the search for thousands of missing persons. The land also continues to tremble with dozens of aftershocks in the Sunday alone.
The tsunami warning was lifted in the evening, but the national meteorological agency warned that there were 70% chance that a replica of magnitude 7 or greater occur within the next three days. Mr. Kan Sunday doubled the number of soldiers and rescuers to bring it to 100,000 and announced that more than 12 000 people had been rescued in the affected areas of the Pacific coast, where the dead and missing in the thousands .
The last official national police reported 688 dead, 642 missing and 1,570 injured. But the police chief of the province of Miyagi said he had expected that the balance exceeds 10 000 deaths in that region alone. Images broadcast by Channel 4 show the extent of damage in the city of Minamisanriku.
The tidal wave has inundated entire towns. Cars were thrown against the facades of houses, and even on rooftops, through the force of breaking waves that have penetrated up to five kilometers inland. The first rescue teams sent by Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France or the United States arrived in Japan Sunday.
In the northeast, at least 5.6 million households were still without electricity and one million were still without water on Sunday. The stations were sometimes dry and purchases of fuel were rationed to 10 liters per pass up to the pump. "I have been waiting over four hours and I still have not filled my tank.
But I really need gas," lamented Sayuri Aizawa, a retiree of 64, whose house has been "carried away by the waves. " In the Tokyo metropolitan area, residents have also begun to stock water, rice and basic commodities, but without panic. The earthquake should "have a significant impact on economic activity in many sectors," warned Mr.
Edano, the spokesman of the government. Because of supply problems, the major Japanese auto manufacturers have announced the suspension of production across countries. To support the local economy, the Bank of Japan provided 55 billion yen Sunday (480 million euros) to 13 banks operating in the region.
She also planned to perform an injection Monday "massive" capital markets to stabilize the financial system. The United States and France are among countries advise their nationals to visit Japan. Paris has even gone further by advising the French living in the Tokyo area away from it "for a few days" because of the risks associated with replicas and nuclear power. 
Always worrying situation in the Central Fukushima The Prime Minister warned that the country was likely to experience power outages on a large scale and in particular expressed serious concern about the situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 1, where an explosion occurred Saturday in the building housing the reactor 1.
Unit 3 has had to turn Sunday similar problems with a "failure" of its cooling system. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has taken various steps to reduce the level of pressure in reactors 1 and 3. However, pumping at sea is not yet sufficient to restore the level of cooling water reactors, has recognized the operator on the night of Sunday to Monday, according to media reports.
The government warned that it could "not exclude that an explosion could occur at reactor 3, due to a possible accumulation of hydrogen. But the spokesman, Yukio Edano, assured that there would be no problem for the reactor itself. 215 000 people were evacuated within a 20 km radius around the plant, located 250 km from the metropolis of Tokyo and its 35 million inhabitants.
The nuclear accident Saturday has been assessed at Level 4 on a scale of 0 to 7, nuclear and radiological events (Ines), against 5 for the one at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979 and 7 for the one at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986. Some foreign experts do not hide their concerns, citing the risk of a disaster of great magnitude.
Eleven of the 50 nuclear reactors in Japan are closed since the earthquake, causing a significant drop in electricity supply. The government permitted Tepco Sunday to plan local disruptions in rotation, so that entire regions are immersed in the dark unpredictably. From Monday until the end of April, residents of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures suffer rotational cuts decided in advance in blocks of three hours, TEPCO announced.
The central districts of the capital, where the ministries, embassies and many government agencies and various important structures, however, should be spared. Thousands of missing the other authorities' priority is to rescue victims and the search for thousands of missing persons. The land also continues to tremble with dozens of aftershocks in the Sunday alone.
The tsunami warning was lifted in the evening, but the national meteorological agency warned that there were 70% chance that a replica of magnitude 7 or greater occur within the next three days. Mr. Kan Sunday doubled the number of soldiers and rescuers to bring it to 100,000 and announced that more than 12 000 people had been rescued in the affected areas of the Pacific coast, where the dead and missing in the thousands .
The last official national police reported 688 dead, 642 missing and 1,570 injured. But the police chief of the province of Miyagi said he had expected that the balance exceeds 10 000 deaths in that region alone. Images broadcast by Channel 4 show the extent of damage in the city of Minamisanriku.
The tidal wave has inundated entire towns. Cars were thrown against the facades of houses, and even on rooftops, through the force of breaking waves that have penetrated up to five kilometers inland. The first rescue teams sent by Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France or the United States arrived in Japan Sunday.
In the northeast, at least 5.6 million households were still without electricity and one million were still without water on Sunday. The stations were sometimes dry and purchases of fuel were rationed to 10 liters per pass up to the pump. "I have been waiting over four hours and I still have not filled my tank.
But I really need gas," lamented Sayuri Aizawa, a retiree of 64, whose house has been "carried away by the waves. " In the Tokyo metropolitan area, residents have also begun to stock water, rice and basic commodities, but without panic. The earthquake should "have a significant impact on economic activity in many sectors," warned Mr.
Edano, the spokesman of the government. Because of supply problems, the major Japanese auto manufacturers have announced the suspension of production across countries. To support the local economy, the Bank of Japan provided 55 billion yen Sunday (480 million euros) to 13 banks operating in the region.
She also planned to perform an injection Monday "massive" capital markets to stabilize the financial system. The United States and France are among countries advise their nationals to visit Japan. Paris has even gone further by advising the French living in the Tokyo area away from it "for a few days" because of the risks associated with replicas and nuclear power.
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