Tuesday, March 15, 2011

New explosion nuclear growing alarm the EU: "apocalypse, everything is out of control"

TOKYO - "In Japan we talk of apocalypse now. Almost everything is out of control, do not rule out the worst in the hours and days that are" are the words of Gunther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Energy, to set the tone for the day while the alarm continues to grow around the nuclear power plant nuclear Fukushima, salt and the fear that the situation continues to degenerate, evoking the specter of Chernobyl.

The severity of accidents nuclerari was raised from the initial 4 to 6, over a maximum of 7. In the number two reactor there was a new explosion (the third in five days), while in reactor number four is a fire, extinguished only after some time. Meanwhile, the earth continues to shake: a new violent quake, the worst of the earthquake swarm continues, has again shaken the air in Tokyo.

And the stock market has collapsed: the square in Tokyo closed at -10.5 percent, scaring even Europe. See details above normal radiation levels. The authorities have warned that the radiation levels around the equipment has become dangerous to health, has completed the evacuation of all residents within a radius of 20 km and those living between 20 and 30 km have been urged to stay indoors.

According to the director general of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano Japanese, the core 2 of the Fukushima plant may have suffered limited damage. "There is the possibility of damage to the heart. The estimate is that the damage is less than 5 percent," Amano said in a press conference in Vienna, but the panic spreads.

The premier Kan: Risk of further losses. The Italian ambassador to Tokyo, Vincenzo Petrone, urged his countrymen to leave the country. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, acknowledged that "the danger of further losses is increasing," but asked the population to remain calm. Tokyo was also shown a higher than normal radiation levels: the levels of radioactivity in the prefecture of Chiba, near the capital, more than 10 times the normal level.

And the health risks discussed by the G8 Foreign Minister Matsumoto Paris. High risk to workers of Fukushima. Certainly those who are working at this time the plant in Fukushima, trying to cool the reactors and are high risk. About 800 people worked in the plant, but the company owns - the TEPCO - asked only about fifty to stay, and now the workers are still working on and off in the control room-where they can not remain long.

French experts: Bath is no longer sealed. According to André-Claude Lacoste, head of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), the French holding tank reactor number two "is no longer sealed." The most feared risk is the partial or total meltdown, ie the formation of a mass radiological high temperature created by nuclear fuel, coatings and steel matrix that encloses the heart.

It aggravates the budget: 11 thousand victims. The WHO said that a team of experts in radioactivity is ready to go. The nuclear nightmare is added to the disaster created by the earthquake, now even the authorities say at least 11 thousand of dead and missing.

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