Saturday, March 19, 2011

Japan Radiation causes exodus

Faced with nuclear emergency in the East of the country, the Japanese began an exodus to the south, on a day when one of the reactors at the Fukushima plant caught fire, without serious consequences. Residents near the sites affected by the levels of radiation in Japan began the exodus to Southern cities of Tokyo, even to other countries.

The 12 million inhabitants of Tokyo do not totally believe that the nuclear situation is under control, as expressed by the Government. Doubts grow when they know that on Friday there have been three explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Tokyo flights from several airlines have been canceled or diverted while in the train, people-especially pregnant women or mothers with children-are lined up to buy tickets destined for other cities where they have relatives or friends hosting them.

To further aggravate the situation, the aftershocks continue, yesterday there were two earthquakes of six and 6.3 degrees. The three explosions in the same number of reactors in Fukushima plant have caused the emission of white smoke contains radioactive iodine and cesium mainly two materials in large quantities can be harmful to health and the environment.

These gases can cause in humans from nausea and vomiting, to cancer in different parts of the body, and even death, as was the case of nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The Japanese authorities, however, announced that the gases are directed toward the Pacific Ocean. This led to the U.S.

West Coast almost been completed, the iodine tablets, which are useful against radioactive contamination of the thyroid, as published in "The Wall Street Journal." Those who do not get put to mourn. They are terrified, "said the newspaper Anbex company president, Alan Morris, who said that their staff inform customers that the risk of radioactivity reaching the U.S.

territory is low. Energy experts from the European Union (EU) met yesterday in Brussels to discuss the emergency in Japan and what to do to avoid failures in nuclear power stations. After the meeting, countries agreed to conduct inspections of outside experts in the nuclear power of those nations that wish, even those outside the bloc, such as Switzerland and Turkey.

The measures were "unanimously accepted," said EU Energy Commissioner, Gunther Oettinger. The purpose of inspections is to assess the response of European nuclear power plants compared to events in Japan have suffered in recent days. "EU institutions want to establish an adequate level of security policy," said European Commissioner Energy, adding that begin to take place in the second half of the year.

"The evidence will be a first step a first step towards the Europeanization of nuclear safety." Police confirmed dead Japan. people are missing. deaths, the number who believe the authorities will be the balance of the tragedy. thousand victims remain in two thousand 400 shelters. people have been rescued alive.

reactor explosion has presented the Fukushima nuclear plant. degrees on the Richter scale, was the magnitude of the earthquake on Friday. meters was the wave of the tsunami on Friday. Mexico's ambassador to Japan, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, reported that only need to know the whereabouts of four of the 60 Mexicans who were in the area affected by the earthquake and tsunami on Friday.

Ruiz explained that many people when they change residence or country of residence forget to communicate. In this context, he hoped that the four people who have yet to locate the profile submitted. He also said there were reports that Mexican nationals in the 30-kilometer radius around the nuclear plant in Fukushima.

He noted that relatives of other Mexicans have been in contact with the embassy who heads for fear that, during tourist trips of these people have been injured by the earthquake or tsunami. The diplomat said that the Mexican Government continues to explore all possibilities to facilitate early return to Mexico of Mexican nationals who are currently on the island.

One is the concrete possibility of a special charter flight to Mexico, which would leave from Tokyo in the coming days, at no cost to Mexicans. Mary Carmen Colin is a Mexican found in Japan, would leave the country as soon as possible, but also that it can not, his family refuses to leave the island.

In an interview on Radio Gold News First Issue, of Puebla, says she wants out, but her husband and her daughter. "I want to go for the good of them, is like a movie in which someone have to go and people you love most have to stay. " Mary Carmen says, like her, thousands of people from other nations wanted to get out as quickly as possible to nuclear risks, but acknowledges that "it is difficult for everyone who wants to escape to get out." Her husband is of Japanese origin, as his daughter, who has said she does not want to run away and says, "Maybe I have to die here." Because radioactive risks, many countries have started evacuating their citizens, and Mary Carmen Mexico expected to follow suit.

"As foreigners, we think they will come and evacuate us, as they did with the Russians and the Chinese." She acknowledged that she and her family are afraid of what might happen with nuclear plants, but they are determined to stay. "We've seen pictures of what happened with the atomic bomb, and we are aware of the problems that exist in the island and how bad it can stay.

" He described the situation is complicated, because the stores and shops are empty because the alerts issued by the Government for a possible new earthquake or tsunami. The family of Mary Carmen in Mexico has asked to return, so she is between a rock and a hard place. Despite the devastation and the aftershocks have not stopped since Friday, reports that people are calm.

Colin says that the Japanese are prepared to die at home. "I remember talking with my in-laws in which they spoke of a future scenario like the one he lives, and insisted that they never would." The Red Cross is appealing for money from the account. For the time will not be installed collection centers for donations in kind by the high cost would represent the movement of goods to the affected areas in Japan.

Beware of websites that provide mechanisms for donations. Security agencies warn that could result in fraudulent campaigns. The Mexican Red Cross is the only institution authorized by the Embassy of Japan to manage aid to daminificados by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that killed thousands in China.

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