A protester during an anti-nuclear protest in Tokyo More than a month after the earthquake and resulting tsunamis that caused the crisis - not yet returned - the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the actors of disaster management Nipponese are unable to d ' agreement. Not even with themselves and even the same day.
On 12 April, for example, the Japanese government raised the assessment of severity of the nuclear level 7, the same as the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. According to the Japanese Prime Minister, however, Naoto Kan, "the situation is stabilizing in Fukushima step by step, radiation is decreasing." "The total amount of radioactive material released in the accident is 10% of that released in the case of Chernobyl," specify the Japanese Association of Industrial and Nuclear Safety (Nisa).
But the same day as fears of TEPCO - the company that operates the - went in the opposite direction: "The radioactive leak has not yet been completely stopped and our concern is that it can also overcome Chernobyl." The future of Central: close, maybe not. Restored within 9 months, if only we could enter.
Only yesterday, TEPCO submitted its plan for the stabilization of the nuclear power plant. Three months to completely stop the loss of radioactivity from six to nine months for full recovery of the debris and cover the buildings that house the reactors, damaged by the explosions. But now the Japan Atomic Energy Agency for the Safety brake, after having found even higher levels of radioactivity of the above.
"In this situation it is very difficult for the engineers of the plant to carry out their work from the inside," said the spokesman of the Agency, Hidehiko Nishiyama. It is equally uncertain is the future of the Japanese system, including the reactors 5 and 6, which have not been damaged.
From March 20 - and over the next few weeks - Japanese Prime Minister and Cabinet chief Yukio Edan sure they said the closure of Fukushima, once the crisis is over. "There are other solutions - said Kan. - It 's clear, looking at the circumstances, the perception that this is" confirmed Edan.
But a few days ago, Nisa back on the steps of the government, declaring that the eventual dismantling is not certain, but it will "be decided after listening to the residents." The analysis of radioactive substances: a question of zeros and kilometers. Can not live in Fukushima, "for the moment." "It could be a period of 10 to 20 years," said Kenichi Matsumoto few days ago, one of the collaborators of the Japanese premier.
Yet the figures released by the Japanese authorities, it is difficult to understand what the actual contamination of the region. On March 25 the Japanese government called for "voluntary evacuation" of up to 30 km from the nuclear plant, "to improve the quality of everyday life is unrelated to security reasons." A few weeks later, exactly one month after the disaster, in the same area has instead provided a systematic evacuation.
Excluded from this measure, the villagers of Itata - dal'impianto 40 km away - despite the International Atomic Energy Agency had warned the government: in Italy the radiation exceeds the bounds of the watch. And the data do not help to clarify matters. On 27 March, the TEPCO announced levels of radioactivity in the reactor No 2 Fukushima 10 million times greater than normal.
E 'alarm. But the day after the company fixes: they would 'only' 100 thousand times. And the Japanese Agency for Nuclear Safety is no exception: almost overnight, the level exceeded the standard of radioactivity into the sea in front of nuclear power increases by 600 times. The food is contaminated.
But just a little '. Curried rice with carrots, broccoli and potatoes. All grown in Fukushima. Around the table, the Japanese foreign minister, Takeaki Matsumoto, and a dozen other Japanese politicians. Members who buy asparagus and tomatoes in the area of the plant. Yukio Edan, government spokesman, who eats a strawberry in a market in the central province.
Image campaigns and heartfelt appeals to prevent Japanese citizens boycott the food of the region of Fukushima for fear of radiation. Yet, just four days ago, it was precisely the Japanese Ministry of Health to raise the alarm, eleven different types of vegetables and fish - from the central area - exceeds by six to 25 times the upper limit of radioactivity determined by law.
The recall does not come unexpected. A week after the disaster, the analysis left no doubt: milk, broccoli, spinach, exceeded the legal limit. So much so that the premier Kan was forced to ban the sale of various foods. Again on April 8, the European Union decided to step up checks on imports from Japan, after several countries - among them Russia, China and India - had already set the lock.
The same day, however, the Japanese government decided to reverse course and loosen the restrictions on the sale of foodstuffs grown in some areas around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. 
On 12 April, for example, the Japanese government raised the assessment of severity of the nuclear level 7, the same as the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. According to the Japanese Prime Minister, however, Naoto Kan, "the situation is stabilizing in Fukushima step by step, radiation is decreasing." "The total amount of radioactive material released in the accident is 10% of that released in the case of Chernobyl," specify the Japanese Association of Industrial and Nuclear Safety (Nisa).
But the same day as fears of TEPCO - the company that operates the - went in the opposite direction: "The radioactive leak has not yet been completely stopped and our concern is that it can also overcome Chernobyl." The future of Central: close, maybe not. Restored within 9 months, if only we could enter.
Only yesterday, TEPCO submitted its plan for the stabilization of the nuclear power plant. Three months to completely stop the loss of radioactivity from six to nine months for full recovery of the debris and cover the buildings that house the reactors, damaged by the explosions. But now the Japan Atomic Energy Agency for the Safety brake, after having found even higher levels of radioactivity of the above.
"In this situation it is very difficult for the engineers of the plant to carry out their work from the inside," said the spokesman of the Agency, Hidehiko Nishiyama. It is equally uncertain is the future of the Japanese system, including the reactors 5 and 6, which have not been damaged.
From March 20 - and over the next few weeks - Japanese Prime Minister and Cabinet chief Yukio Edan sure they said the closure of Fukushima, once the crisis is over. "There are other solutions - said Kan. - It 's clear, looking at the circumstances, the perception that this is" confirmed Edan.
But a few days ago, Nisa back on the steps of the government, declaring that the eventual dismantling is not certain, but it will "be decided after listening to the residents." The analysis of radioactive substances: a question of zeros and kilometers. Can not live in Fukushima, "for the moment." "It could be a period of 10 to 20 years," said Kenichi Matsumoto few days ago, one of the collaborators of the Japanese premier.
Yet the figures released by the Japanese authorities, it is difficult to understand what the actual contamination of the region. On March 25 the Japanese government called for "voluntary evacuation" of up to 30 km from the nuclear plant, "to improve the quality of everyday life is unrelated to security reasons." A few weeks later, exactly one month after the disaster, in the same area has instead provided a systematic evacuation.
Excluded from this measure, the villagers of Itata - dal'impianto 40 km away - despite the International Atomic Energy Agency had warned the government: in Italy the radiation exceeds the bounds of the watch. And the data do not help to clarify matters. On 27 March, the TEPCO announced levels of radioactivity in the reactor No 2 Fukushima 10 million times greater than normal.
E 'alarm. But the day after the company fixes: they would 'only' 100 thousand times. And the Japanese Agency for Nuclear Safety is no exception: almost overnight, the level exceeded the standard of radioactivity into the sea in front of nuclear power increases by 600 times. The food is contaminated.
But just a little '. Curried rice with carrots, broccoli and potatoes. All grown in Fukushima. Around the table, the Japanese foreign minister, Takeaki Matsumoto, and a dozen other Japanese politicians. Members who buy asparagus and tomatoes in the area of the plant. Yukio Edan, government spokesman, who eats a strawberry in a market in the central province.
Image campaigns and heartfelt appeals to prevent Japanese citizens boycott the food of the region of Fukushima for fear of radiation. Yet, just four days ago, it was precisely the Japanese Ministry of Health to raise the alarm, eleven different types of vegetables and fish - from the central area - exceeds by six to 25 times the upper limit of radioactivity determined by law.
The recall does not come unexpected. A week after the disaster, the analysis left no doubt: milk, broccoli, spinach, exceeded the legal limit. So much so that the premier Kan was forced to ban the sale of various foods. Again on April 8, the European Union decided to step up checks on imports from Japan, after several countries - among them Russia, China and India - had already set the lock.
The same day, however, the Japanese government decided to reverse course and loosen the restrictions on the sale of foodstuffs grown in some areas around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
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