After much pressure, criticism and widespread alarm, the operator of Fukushima presented a "road map" for ending the crisis that lies in three months the time needed to restore stable cooling damaged units, and six to nine months the time needed to shut down its nuclear fuel. "We estimate that it will take three months for radiation levels start to fall," said Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of the company operating the plant in Fukushima (North East), Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO).
"After finishing this first phase, it will take even six months before we can reduce radiation leaks at a very low level, decreasing the temperature of the reactors and the reserve pools of spent fuel. The company claims that this second phase will seek to "turn cold" reactor to allow the technicians involved in the central hilly after the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March.
To the Minister of Trade and Industry, Banri Kaieda, "TEPCO only revealed its plan of action, which continues to be an important step." Kaieda estimated that this plan of action as a move from the current emergency phase to a phase of stabilization. He also stated that the Government placed reviewed within six to nine months the evacuation area around the plant.
For now, enacted an exclusion zone of 20 km radius around the plant, but urged people to leave the area also goes to the 30-kilometer radius. About 80 thousand people were evacuated in the radio and eating forbidden foods around that had more radioactivity than normal. Cooling systems stopped working, causing explosions and radioactive losses.
About 60 thousand tons of highly radioactive water prevent technicians enter the facility to restore the electricity supply water pumps. The authorities of Japan located on 12 April the Fukushima nuclear accident at the same level of gravity than Chernobyl, but said that the radioactive emissions were by far lower than those of the plant in Ukraine exploded on April 1986.
Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, described the plan manager of the Fukushima plant as a "small step", while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting Tokyo, said experts from his country analyzed. During his visit, Hillary announced that U.S. companies were willing to participate in the reconstruction effort in the northeast of the archipelago devastated.
Tokyo Electric Power Company is a public company founded on May 1961 and has 235 employees 38,000 (estimated 2005). Is a Japanese production, transmission, and distribution of electricity, which supplies power throughout the country. TEPCO is the largest power company in Japan, and the third largest in the world after Electricite de France and the German E-ON.
Is present in the metropolitan district of Tokyo, Yamanashi Prefecture, and the eastern part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Its headquarters is located in Chiyoda, and also has offices in Washington DC and London. 
"After finishing this first phase, it will take even six months before we can reduce radiation leaks at a very low level, decreasing the temperature of the reactors and the reserve pools of spent fuel. The company claims that this second phase will seek to "turn cold" reactor to allow the technicians involved in the central hilly after the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March.
To the Minister of Trade and Industry, Banri Kaieda, "TEPCO only revealed its plan of action, which continues to be an important step." Kaieda estimated that this plan of action as a move from the current emergency phase to a phase of stabilization. He also stated that the Government placed reviewed within six to nine months the evacuation area around the plant.
For now, enacted an exclusion zone of 20 km radius around the plant, but urged people to leave the area also goes to the 30-kilometer radius. About 80 thousand people were evacuated in the radio and eating forbidden foods around that had more radioactivity than normal. Cooling systems stopped working, causing explosions and radioactive losses.
About 60 thousand tons of highly radioactive water prevent technicians enter the facility to restore the electricity supply water pumps. The authorities of Japan located on 12 April the Fukushima nuclear accident at the same level of gravity than Chernobyl, but said that the radioactive emissions were by far lower than those of the plant in Ukraine exploded on April 1986.
Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, described the plan manager of the Fukushima plant as a "small step", while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting Tokyo, said experts from his country analyzed. During his visit, Hillary announced that U.S. companies were willing to participate in the reconstruction effort in the northeast of the archipelago devastated.
Tokyo Electric Power Company is a public company founded on May 1961 and has 235 employees 38,000 (estimated 2005). Is a Japanese production, transmission, and distribution of electricity, which supplies power throughout the country. TEPCO is the largest power company in Japan, and the third largest in the world after Electricite de France and the German E-ON.
Is present in the metropolitan district of Tokyo, Yamanashi Prefecture, and the eastern part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Its headquarters is located in Chiyoda, and also has offices in Washington DC and London.
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