Friday, April 8, 2011

Japan, water leaks from Onagawa Four new deaths from the quake

Water leaks have been detected in the nuclear Onagawa (Miyagi prefecture) as a result of the earthquake yesterday (Read the report). He said that public television NHK, citing the operator Tohoku Electric, stated that there has been no change in radiation levels outside the plant. The loss of water would have been assessed at 8-9, mainly generated by the cooling tanks of spent fuel of reactors 1 and 2, then a potential of radioactivity.

But no anomaly recorded in central Fukushima 1 and 2, a distance of 11 km. Some problems in Miyagi and Aomori, where the plant triggered a blackout backup generators. Still shook in the night, the number of victims. E 'meanwhile risen to at least four confirmed dead and 132 wounded budget earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 - not 7.4 as estimated at the beginning - which yesterday struck the north-eastern Japan.

They sources said Japan's Civil Protection. A 63 year old died in Yamagata prefecture due to the shutdown of an artificial respirator that oxygen enter the lungs. The quake caused a sudden drop in electrical current and the machine is turned off. The other three victims are registered in the prefecture of Myagi, the hardest hit by the earthquake on March 11: These are two men of 85 and 79 years and a woman of 83.

According to experts, yesterday there was an aftershock followed at night by many others of lesser intensity. How to magnitud0 5 recorded this morning off the coast of Japan's Honshu. A phenomenon not unexpected, experts explain, and could happen again. Government will lift restrictions on some food.

Although not yet returned the alarm in Fukushima, the Japanese government has anticipated that will be lifted some restrictions on trade in agricultural products from areas near the plant. In particular, they fall to the prohibitions on raw milk produced in seven municipalities of Fukushima Prefecture from those of spinach and the 'Kakini' - a type of local vegetables like chard leaf long and very popular with Nippon - grown in the prefecture of Gunma .

"The government," said the minister spokesman Yukio Edan, "has received many requests for waiver and believes that these products meet the necessary conditions." Especially abroad, however, continues to be prohibited the dissemination or import of certain foodstuffs, for fear that they have been contaminated with radiation levels exceeding those allowed by the laws on food safety.

Japanese Prime Minister returns foreign donation. But even the earthquake emergency can justify Japanese foreign donations to politicians. So the Prime Minister Naoto Kan, for fear of losing his job, has returned a substantial offer made by a foreign national residing in Japan. To support and Kyodo news agency that, citing "sources close to the prime minister," according to the refund of a donation by more than one million yen, equivalent to just over 8 thousand euro, made by a South Korean.

Kan-threatening situation that just a few hours before the devastating earthquake of 11 March, was charged with receiving $ 12,500 from a Korean, a fact prohibited by law. On that occasion, the Japanese prime minister defended himself before a parliamentary committee saying he thought he had to do with a Japanese citizen, "since he had a Japanese name." A similar thing a few days before, had forced the resignation of Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, the center of a scandal for accepting 440 euro from a South Korean resident in the Land of the Rising Sun.

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