It is' the first time that a Japanese head of government calls directly to the closure of a nuclear power. " So Juniki Sato, executive director of the Japan branch of Greenpeace says the choice of Prime Minister Naoto Kan to demand the closure of the Hamaoka, central Japan. The office is located in the prefecture of Tokai, 200 kilometers southwest of Tokyo: a zone of junction between two tectonic plates, considered one of the atomic sites with the highest seismic risk in the country.
The Premier does not want to risk, after the earthquake - and the subsequent tsunami - which devastated the country on March 11 and the new quake of magnitude 6.1 recorded yesterday off the island of Honshu. And especially after the disaster at the power station in Fukushima, where only yesterday the workers were able to enter the building that houses the reactor 1.
"All operations of the plant should be suspended - Kan said on live TV - the decision was taken considering the safety of the population." An announcement that interrupted the evening news NHK public broadcasting, in which the prime minister has asked to suspend the operations of the reactors 4 and 5, currently in operation, and to block the restart of Unit 3, bus stop last November for maintenance and needs to be moved to July, the intention of the operators.
Also today, in addition, the company TEPCO has another anomaly in central Japan. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture, do not close perfectly a valve that regulates the entry of water into the reactor in an emergency. The management company has ruled out the possibility of radioactive leaks or damage to the surrounding area.
"The Japanese government has to stop and dismantle existing plants - added by Greenpeace - but above all it must delete the programs that involve the construction of new nuclear power stations and launch in Japan on the road to a future powered by renewable energy." Meanwhile, work continues in the Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by the earthquake and resulting tsunami on 11 March.
So far, the high levels of radioactivity did not permit workers to enter the buildings that house the reactors went into failure. Yesterday late in the morning - at dawn in Italy - a team of 12 engineers TEPCO has entered the building where the reactor is 1. It 'was the first time since March 12, the day after the earthquake, when a huge explosion caused by hydrogen has made the building unusable.
The idea of the company that manages this facility also Japanese - accused of lack of transparency and failure in managing the crisis - was installing pipe to suck contaminated air from the outside and make more salubrious air. Yesterday the workers were datio exchanged into teams of four, staying in the building in shifts of 10 minutes, not to exceed an exposure to toxic substances than 3 millisievert.
The installation of the pipes should allow engineers to stay longer in the building with the reactor and repair equipment. Around the middle of the month, provides for TEPCO, work will begin to install the new cooling system stable: the contaminated water from the reactor, will be purified with a chemical treatment and recycled. 
The Premier does not want to risk, after the earthquake - and the subsequent tsunami - which devastated the country on March 11 and the new quake of magnitude 6.1 recorded yesterday off the island of Honshu. And especially after the disaster at the power station in Fukushima, where only yesterday the workers were able to enter the building that houses the reactor 1.
"All operations of the plant should be suspended - Kan said on live TV - the decision was taken considering the safety of the population." An announcement that interrupted the evening news NHK public broadcasting, in which the prime minister has asked to suspend the operations of the reactors 4 and 5, currently in operation, and to block the restart of Unit 3, bus stop last November for maintenance and needs to be moved to July, the intention of the operators.
Also today, in addition, the company TEPCO has another anomaly in central Japan. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture, do not close perfectly a valve that regulates the entry of water into the reactor in an emergency. The management company has ruled out the possibility of radioactive leaks or damage to the surrounding area.
"The Japanese government has to stop and dismantle existing plants - added by Greenpeace - but above all it must delete the programs that involve the construction of new nuclear power stations and launch in Japan on the road to a future powered by renewable energy." Meanwhile, work continues in the Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by the earthquake and resulting tsunami on 11 March.
So far, the high levels of radioactivity did not permit workers to enter the buildings that house the reactors went into failure. Yesterday late in the morning - at dawn in Italy - a team of 12 engineers TEPCO has entered the building where the reactor is 1. It 'was the first time since March 12, the day after the earthquake, when a huge explosion caused by hydrogen has made the building unusable.
The idea of the company that manages this facility also Japanese - accused of lack of transparency and failure in managing the crisis - was installing pipe to suck contaminated air from the outside and make more salubrious air. Yesterday the workers were datio exchanged into teams of four, staying in the building in shifts of 10 minutes, not to exceed an exposure to toxic substances than 3 millisievert.
The installation of the pipes should allow engineers to stay longer in the building with the reactor and repair equipment. Around the middle of the month, provides for TEPCO, work will begin to install the new cooling system stable: the contaminated water from the reactor, will be purified with a chemical treatment and recycled.
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