A new earthquake of magnitude 5.8, rocked, Wednesday, April 13, the north-eastern Japan and shook buildings in Tokyo. According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, its epicenter was located in Fukushima Prefecture, hit hard by the devastating earthquake of 11 March. >> Watch the interactive graphics Understanding accident in Fukushima 3 minutes Hundreds of tremors have been recorded in Japan since the magnitude 9 earthquake followed by tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Japan, making twenty -eight thousand dead or missing and causing an accident nuclear power plant in Fukushima-1.
TEPCO, the operator of the plant, said that the new replica has not led to the evacuation of its staff or interrupted their work to try to regain control of the situation. Despite the aftershocks, the workers of the nuclear accident in Fukushima began to pump highly radioactive water seeped into the facility, a task essential to resume the recovery of cooling systems.
This highly radioactive liquid must be transferred to a capacitor which, in normal operation, used to convert water vapor into the reactor created. The pump should last four to five days. In total, some 60 000 tonnes of water flooded the underground pipes and engine rooms of three of the six reactors at the plant.
The direction of TEPCO has not yet determined the bill during the accident at the plant in Fukushima. But according to an estimate released in late March by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, TEPCO could face more than 130 billion dollars in claims. The financial liability of the operator of the plant could be capped and other stakeholders to put nuclear contribution, the daily Yomiuri reported Wednesday, citing a plan being considered, in which the liability would be assessed between Tepco 2000 and 3 800 billion yen (24 - 45 billion dollars).
The plan would call for solidarity alongside other companies in the electricity sector atomic, which would participate in a mutual aid fund. This fund would be worth 2,700 billion yen (32 billion dollars) and echoed by the business sector in proportion to their number of nuclear reactors.
The Japanese government has also deteriorated Wednesday its economic diagnosis, noting that the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 have halted the recovery in the industrial machine galling and lead consumer sentiment. The panel on the employment consequences of the earthquake are also feared, the report said.
Many companies, from all sectors are affected more or less directly, with destruction, failure of supply, the obligation to limit the use of electricity or the lack of customers. Economists expect that Japan endures another recession (two consecutive quarters of decline), but expect a restart in the second half of the year, thanks to reconstruction efforts, even if power restrictions Electric planned for this summer could dampen the renewed activity. 
TEPCO, the operator of the plant, said that the new replica has not led to the evacuation of its staff or interrupted their work to try to regain control of the situation. Despite the aftershocks, the workers of the nuclear accident in Fukushima began to pump highly radioactive water seeped into the facility, a task essential to resume the recovery of cooling systems.
This highly radioactive liquid must be transferred to a capacitor which, in normal operation, used to convert water vapor into the reactor created. The pump should last four to five days. In total, some 60 000 tonnes of water flooded the underground pipes and engine rooms of three of the six reactors at the plant.
The direction of TEPCO has not yet determined the bill during the accident at the plant in Fukushima. But according to an estimate released in late March by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, TEPCO could face more than 130 billion dollars in claims. The financial liability of the operator of the plant could be capped and other stakeholders to put nuclear contribution, the daily Yomiuri reported Wednesday, citing a plan being considered, in which the liability would be assessed between Tepco 2000 and 3 800 billion yen (24 - 45 billion dollars).
The plan would call for solidarity alongside other companies in the electricity sector atomic, which would participate in a mutual aid fund. This fund would be worth 2,700 billion yen (32 billion dollars) and echoed by the business sector in proportion to their number of nuclear reactors.
The Japanese government has also deteriorated Wednesday its economic diagnosis, noting that the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 have halted the recovery in the industrial machine galling and lead consumer sentiment. The panel on the employment consequences of the earthquake are also feared, the report said.
Many companies, from all sectors are affected more or less directly, with destruction, failure of supply, the obligation to limit the use of electricity or the lack of customers. Economists expect that Japan endures another recession (two consecutive quarters of decline), but expect a restart in the second half of the year, thanks to reconstruction efforts, even if power restrictions Electric planned for this summer could dampen the renewed activity.
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