The tap water in Tokyo does is harmful to health. That is the message that the Japanese authorities do not stop repeating to the public to stop buying bottled water, according to Kyodo news agency. Following the recommendation yesterday in Tokyo that babies under one year do not drink tap water, panicked and Tokyoites people took to the streets to expand its stockpile of bottled water.
However, the amounts of radiation in the water and fall within the permitted, since the radioactive iodine levels are below the 100 becquerels per liter, so that the Japanese authorities have insisted there is no danger to health, either for adults or infants. Still, stocks in supermarkets becoming scarce.
"Customers are asking us for water. But there is nothing we can do," he told Masayoshi Kasahara, a store clerk at a supermarket in a residential area east of Tokyo. "We are asking for more supplies, but do not know when the next shipment will come," he repeated. Although the authorities try to not panic, now the concern has focused among consumers of vegetables in Tokyo.
Authorities have confirmed that cesium levels were found 1.8 times higher than normal in vegetables grown in a research center in Tokyo, according to Kyodo reported, quoting the Metropolitan Government of Japan's capital. Previously, it had detected radioactive contamination in various types of vegetables grown in areas near Fukushima, but it is the first time observed in a culture in Tokyo, located at 240 south of the nuclear plant.
In any case, the Government of Japan's capital last night announced it would distribute bottled water to families with babies in the capital and five surrounding cities affected by radioactive iodine levels in tap water, as well as companies will ask mineral water to increase production.
Specifically, the water management office in Tokyo today called on local authorities and the affected cities Tokyoites to distribute 3.55 liters of mineral water to about 80,000 households with infants, according to public broadcaster NHK. Shintaro Ishihara, governor of the capital, insisted that the radiation level is not an immediate risk to health and water may be used, but asked not to be used to dilute milk and prepare food for children under one year .
This afternoon, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported that Japanese scientists have found concentrations of radioactive iodine 131 over the limit and cesium-137 below the levels in samples of seawater collected 30 km from the coast in an expedition between 22 and 23 March near the plant in Fukushima.
High levels of radiation in the reactor 2 The struggle to control the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant 1 continues. Nuclear Security Agency of Japan (NISA, for its acronym in English) has confirmed that the reactor 2 is giving the highest levels of radioactivity from on record, and this morning have resumed work to bring power and return cooling system in the reactor 3 after they will stop because of a fire, according to Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
Meanwhile, back out white smoke from the first four reactors, then high pressure in the reactor 1, reports the Japanese agencies in the ongoing struggle to restore the damaged cooling system after the catastrophe. At least 17 workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant have been exposed to radioactivity above normal limits for an emergency, as confirmed by the operator of the plant, TEPCO.
The 17 workers have been exposed to radiation more than 100 millisievert, usually considered the best in emergency conditions, although the specific case of Fukushima Japan Government has authorized to raise up to 250 millisievert. Three of these workers have received between 173 and 180 millisievert while extending electrical wires near the reactor three, in a turbine building flooded with water with high levels of radioactivity, according to public broadcaster NHK.
Two employees were hospitalized with burns on his feet apparently caused by direct exposure to beta rays, according to TEPCO, which has indicated that the radioactive water may have seeped through his protective overalls. After that incident, workers in the area were temporarily evacuated.
Restricting the import of some Japanese Concern about the presence of radioactivity in food is not only concerned about Japan. The latest country to join the ban on food imports has been Russia, which has decided to restrict the arrival of food in Japan four regions, as indicated by the Agence France Presse, citing the chief Russian sanitary services, Guennadi Onichtcko.
Singapore has joined tonight at the measure approved yesterday by the United States, which banned imports of milk, vegetables and fruit from four prefectures near the nuclear plant, Australia also has frozen the product of northeastern Japan, and Hong Kong has made same with those from five prefectures after turnips and spinach samples showed radiation between 2.6 and 10 times higher than allowed.
South Korea is considering similar measures, while China, Malaysia and the Philippines are Japanese imports inspected to detect any trace of radioactivity. Last night was Canada who announced he would tighten health checks for milk, vegetables and fruit that comes from areas near Fukushima.
The Japanese authorities have identified 11 types of vegetables, broccoli, spinach, cabbage, parsley, cauliflower and cabbage, with levels of radiation above safety levels, as well as milk and water in the region of Fukushima , but have insisted that there are more dangerous to people. The Government has also ordered that will increase inspections of fish and shellfish, although many towns, ports and ships in the northeastern coast of Japan were destroyed by the disaster, what the industry is largely paralyzed.
Andrew Graham, scientific advisor to the IAEA, has admitted that the marine fauna of two prefectures near Chiba and Fukushima, Ibaraki, can be contaminated with radioactive particles, and therefore has advised the Japanese authorities to control the seafood. Taiwan has suggested to its fishing vessels that fish in Japanese waters.
Information critical to a possible evening in Tokyo Citizens prove the origin of foods when shopping. "I'm really worried. I wonder to myself if water and food are safe," says Yumiko Yokoyama, 25, who works at a hair salon. While many Japanese people criticize the lack of transparency of the authorities on the development of the crisis, say they are wary of the system of control and traceability of food.
"I trust and I do not trust the government. He informed too late about the nuclear crisis, while the U.S. spoke faster than happened, and we had to inform foreigners. But on the other hand, now, when I buy vegetables or fish, I see where they come from and I trust what he says, "he says.
Although short-term risks are limited for now, scientists recall the catastrophe of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, and warn that some radioactive particles are concentrated as they travel up the food chain and persist in the environment for decades. Meanwhile, Japan continues to feel tremors that occur after the hurricane.
This morning (Spanish time) was the last, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale with its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan's Iwate province, without any reported damage or has issued a tsunami alert, reports EFE. The quake's epicenter, 20 kilometers deep, is located in the same area that most of the 700 aftershocks that have rocked northeastern Japan from March 11.
The disaster has caused 9,700 dead and 16,501 missing, according to latest official figures provided by the National Police Agency of Japan in the early hours today. Continue to work in the central Japanese engineers continue to advance in the process of stabilization of the Fukushima nuclear plant I.
The same night (at one-thirty in the morning, Spanish time) security teams have resumed work on the reactor 3, the most dangerous to use as fuel a dangerous mixture of uranium and plutonium, after a suspension yesterday work after detection of black smoke coming out of that part of the plant, which is not yet know the cause, although it has been ruled out the possibility of fire.
It is also unknown what the status of the pool of waste, which cooling system is still severely damaged and which have resumed work in order to cool the core and the pool containing the spent fuel. Like the other five reactors, has been connected to the mains, which is expected to accelerate the task of cooling by pumping water.
It also works to restore the cooling system at reactor No. 4, whose spent fuel pool is also in a state concern, since shortly before the earthquake had moved here all the reactor fuel. Progress, says the IAEA is "uncertain." The signs on the low level of water in the spent fuel pool and the lack of data on temperature have worried the authorities.
This night the electricity was partially restored in the control room of reactor 1, "but that does not mean that you restore the cooling system," announced an official of the Nuclear Security Agency. Meanwhile, he continues to pump sea water. In Unit 1 is now working to lower the pressure in the containment vessel protects the reactor, according to the Japan Nuclear Security Agency, and try to reduce the high temperature and reached yesterday (Nuclear Security Agency put the temperature near of 400 degrees Celsius compared to up production of 302 ยบ for which it was built).
However, he insists, "there is no immediate danger." Reactors 5 and 6, those with less danger in principle had long since not work when there was the earthquake and tsunami, have spent several days connected to the mains. Both units now have power and are in safe mode, temperature and pressure in the reactor low.
The central crisis of Fukushima, has raised questions about whether the managers of TEPCO waited too long to pump sea water to cool the reactor, after being damaged the cooling system, because they knew that this will definitely unusable. 
However, the amounts of radiation in the water and fall within the permitted, since the radioactive iodine levels are below the 100 becquerels per liter, so that the Japanese authorities have insisted there is no danger to health, either for adults or infants. Still, stocks in supermarkets becoming scarce.
"Customers are asking us for water. But there is nothing we can do," he told Masayoshi Kasahara, a store clerk at a supermarket in a residential area east of Tokyo. "We are asking for more supplies, but do not know when the next shipment will come," he repeated. Although the authorities try to not panic, now the concern has focused among consumers of vegetables in Tokyo.
Authorities have confirmed that cesium levels were found 1.8 times higher than normal in vegetables grown in a research center in Tokyo, according to Kyodo reported, quoting the Metropolitan Government of Japan's capital. Previously, it had detected radioactive contamination in various types of vegetables grown in areas near Fukushima, but it is the first time observed in a culture in Tokyo, located at 240 south of the nuclear plant.
In any case, the Government of Japan's capital last night announced it would distribute bottled water to families with babies in the capital and five surrounding cities affected by radioactive iodine levels in tap water, as well as companies will ask mineral water to increase production.
Specifically, the water management office in Tokyo today called on local authorities and the affected cities Tokyoites to distribute 3.55 liters of mineral water to about 80,000 households with infants, according to public broadcaster NHK. Shintaro Ishihara, governor of the capital, insisted that the radiation level is not an immediate risk to health and water may be used, but asked not to be used to dilute milk and prepare food for children under one year .
This afternoon, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported that Japanese scientists have found concentrations of radioactive iodine 131 over the limit and cesium-137 below the levels in samples of seawater collected 30 km from the coast in an expedition between 22 and 23 March near the plant in Fukushima.
High levels of radiation in the reactor 2 The struggle to control the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant 1 continues. Nuclear Security Agency of Japan (NISA, for its acronym in English) has confirmed that the reactor 2 is giving the highest levels of radioactivity from on record, and this morning have resumed work to bring power and return cooling system in the reactor 3 after they will stop because of a fire, according to Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
Meanwhile, back out white smoke from the first four reactors, then high pressure in the reactor 1, reports the Japanese agencies in the ongoing struggle to restore the damaged cooling system after the catastrophe. At least 17 workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant have been exposed to radioactivity above normal limits for an emergency, as confirmed by the operator of the plant, TEPCO.
The 17 workers have been exposed to radiation more than 100 millisievert, usually considered the best in emergency conditions, although the specific case of Fukushima Japan Government has authorized to raise up to 250 millisievert. Three of these workers have received between 173 and 180 millisievert while extending electrical wires near the reactor three, in a turbine building flooded with water with high levels of radioactivity, according to public broadcaster NHK.
Two employees were hospitalized with burns on his feet apparently caused by direct exposure to beta rays, according to TEPCO, which has indicated that the radioactive water may have seeped through his protective overalls. After that incident, workers in the area were temporarily evacuated.
Restricting the import of some Japanese Concern about the presence of radioactivity in food is not only concerned about Japan. The latest country to join the ban on food imports has been Russia, which has decided to restrict the arrival of food in Japan four regions, as indicated by the Agence France Presse, citing the chief Russian sanitary services, Guennadi Onichtcko.
Singapore has joined tonight at the measure approved yesterday by the United States, which banned imports of milk, vegetables and fruit from four prefectures near the nuclear plant, Australia also has frozen the product of northeastern Japan, and Hong Kong has made same with those from five prefectures after turnips and spinach samples showed radiation between 2.6 and 10 times higher than allowed.
South Korea is considering similar measures, while China, Malaysia and the Philippines are Japanese imports inspected to detect any trace of radioactivity. Last night was Canada who announced he would tighten health checks for milk, vegetables and fruit that comes from areas near Fukushima.
The Japanese authorities have identified 11 types of vegetables, broccoli, spinach, cabbage, parsley, cauliflower and cabbage, with levels of radiation above safety levels, as well as milk and water in the region of Fukushima , but have insisted that there are more dangerous to people. The Government has also ordered that will increase inspections of fish and shellfish, although many towns, ports and ships in the northeastern coast of Japan were destroyed by the disaster, what the industry is largely paralyzed.
Andrew Graham, scientific advisor to the IAEA, has admitted that the marine fauna of two prefectures near Chiba and Fukushima, Ibaraki, can be contaminated with radioactive particles, and therefore has advised the Japanese authorities to control the seafood. Taiwan has suggested to its fishing vessels that fish in Japanese waters.
Information critical to a possible evening in Tokyo Citizens prove the origin of foods when shopping. "I'm really worried. I wonder to myself if water and food are safe," says Yumiko Yokoyama, 25, who works at a hair salon. While many Japanese people criticize the lack of transparency of the authorities on the development of the crisis, say they are wary of the system of control and traceability of food.
"I trust and I do not trust the government. He informed too late about the nuclear crisis, while the U.S. spoke faster than happened, and we had to inform foreigners. But on the other hand, now, when I buy vegetables or fish, I see where they come from and I trust what he says, "he says.
Although short-term risks are limited for now, scientists recall the catastrophe of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, and warn that some radioactive particles are concentrated as they travel up the food chain and persist in the environment for decades. Meanwhile, Japan continues to feel tremors that occur after the hurricane.
This morning (Spanish time) was the last, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale with its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan's Iwate province, without any reported damage or has issued a tsunami alert, reports EFE. The quake's epicenter, 20 kilometers deep, is located in the same area that most of the 700 aftershocks that have rocked northeastern Japan from March 11.
The disaster has caused 9,700 dead and 16,501 missing, according to latest official figures provided by the National Police Agency of Japan in the early hours today. Continue to work in the central Japanese engineers continue to advance in the process of stabilization of the Fukushima nuclear plant I.
The same night (at one-thirty in the morning, Spanish time) security teams have resumed work on the reactor 3, the most dangerous to use as fuel a dangerous mixture of uranium and plutonium, after a suspension yesterday work after detection of black smoke coming out of that part of the plant, which is not yet know the cause, although it has been ruled out the possibility of fire.
It is also unknown what the status of the pool of waste, which cooling system is still severely damaged and which have resumed work in order to cool the core and the pool containing the spent fuel. Like the other five reactors, has been connected to the mains, which is expected to accelerate the task of cooling by pumping water.
It also works to restore the cooling system at reactor No. 4, whose spent fuel pool is also in a state concern, since shortly before the earthquake had moved here all the reactor fuel. Progress, says the IAEA is "uncertain." The signs on the low level of water in the spent fuel pool and the lack of data on temperature have worried the authorities.
This night the electricity was partially restored in the control room of reactor 1, "but that does not mean that you restore the cooling system," announced an official of the Nuclear Security Agency. Meanwhile, he continues to pump sea water. In Unit 1 is now working to lower the pressure in the containment vessel protects the reactor, according to the Japan Nuclear Security Agency, and try to reduce the high temperature and reached yesterday (Nuclear Security Agency put the temperature near of 400 degrees Celsius compared to up production of 302 ยบ for which it was built).
However, he insists, "there is no immediate danger." Reactors 5 and 6, those with less danger in principle had long since not work when there was the earthquake and tsunami, have spent several days connected to the mains. Both units now have power and are in safe mode, temperature and pressure in the reactor low.
The central crisis of Fukushima, has raised questions about whether the managers of TEPCO waited too long to pump sea water to cool the reactor, after being damaged the cooling system, because they knew that this will definitely unusable.
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