Monday, April 25, 2011

Fukushima Today 25 years ago Chernobyl nuclear Tragedies shake the world

"We were told that we would not have had after the Chernobyl nuclear tragedy never again today and, instead, 25 years later, the images coming from Fukushima are proof that no promise on the safety of the atom is credible." While in Japan, the earth shook again, tomorrow we celebrate the anniversary of the 1986 atomic disatro in central Ukraine.

And the anti nuclear committees across Europe announce events, to ask governments to renounce nuclear power so that tragedies such as those Chernoby and Fukushima, considered by experts the most serious of world history, do not happen "never again". More than a month ago, on March 11, the earthquake and resulting tsunami damaged the nuclear power plant of Japan, causing a radioactive leak dangerous as that of Ukraine 25 years ago.

Even today, the crisis in Japan is recovery. Aftershocks are continuing in the country, such as magnitude 5 that at 18 hours local time - the 11 Italian - has shaken the prefecture of Ibaraki. The quake, also felt in Tokyo, it has not caused any damage and was excluded tsunami warning. But to tremble in Japan are not only the buildings.

The production of automobile manufacturers of the Rising Sun Toyota, Nissan and Honda declined by more than half over the same month of 2010, due to earthquake damage suffered by their suppliers in the north east of the country. Today, moreover, began the recovery of the bodies of thousands who remain missing since the earthquake.

Emergency crews entered the area off limits around the center of Fukushima to recover even the cattle from the contaminated area by radizioni weeks left after the evacuation of population. An escape dangerous to health and the environment, the Japanese government is tempting to contain, so far without results.

As anticipated Sumio Mabuchi, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister Naoto Kan for the management of the crisis of Fukushima, the last hypothesis is to build an underground barrier around the plant to stop the spread of radioactive substances in soil and groundwater. But these emergency measures do not satisfy the thousands of demonstrators planned for today in several European cities.

The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster will be an opportunity for protesters to remember that it is dangerous to rely on nuclear power, which "dramatically demonstrate how these two disasters, not the solution", say the anti-nuclear committee. Tomorrow in Rome there are two sit-in: the first before the Japanese embassy, then move outside the headquarters of the Ukrainian.

Among the protests in the rest of Europe, are already talking about the one organized on the 'Pont de l'Europe', the swing bridge over the Rhine River that connects the French city of Strasbourg, in Alsace, with the German city of Kehl, in North Rhine Westphalia. The activists want to understand how "these 25 years have passed in vain," he announced.

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