Thursday, March 24, 2011

There are already more than nine thousand dead in Japan quake

The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on 11 in Japan rose today to the nine thousand 79 people while 12 000 645 others are missing, according to the last count of the Japanese police. Eleven days after 9 degrees on the northeast coast of Japan, the worst natural disaster after World War II, the fear is still to increase the victims while trying to restore infrastructure to cater to the victims.

The total of deaths, four 80 have been identified and two thousand 990 have been returned to their families. About 320 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes and most are in two temporary shelters mil100 in 16 provinces, at the last count of the local agency Kyodo. Among them are the 200 000 evacuees around the nuclear plant in Fukushima, where technicians and military struggle day and night by lowering the temperature of the reactor to prevent radioactive leaks.

Recovery operations of the cooling systems Fukushima nuclear power plant resumed on Tuesday morning after being interrupted on Monday produced smoke, said the operator TEPCO. At 08:00 (23:00 GMT Monday), the central staff returned and resumed the repairs of the reactor one to four, damaged from accidents and radioactive leaks from the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March.

Much of the technicians working in the four reactors had to stop on Monday afternoon to smoke and steam out of the reactors two and three. New steam emissions were observed on the morning of Tuesday, according to the media, but a responsible TEPCO said that steam should not complicate the work in progress.

The cooling of the reactor with water cannons, however, did not start Tuesday morning, said Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), operator of the central Fukushima Daiichi 1, located 250 km northeast of Tokyo. Nuclear Safety Agency said a decision. The reactors detached two three gray smoke for several hours Tuesday morning.

The three reactor was the most damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11: The roof of the building was completely destroyed last week by a powerful explosion caused by a buildup of hydrogen derived from the operations of depressurization. This reactor is one that most worries the authorities, out of six at the plant, and its interior contains MOX fuel, a mixture of plutonium oxide and uranium products from recycled waste which are considered the most harmful of all who come of a uranium-based fuel.

EFE and AFP information

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