.- Japan warned on Sunday that would take months to stop the leakage of radiation from a nuclear plant hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, while its citizens believe that a coalition would better handle the crisis and reconstruction work. An adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government's priority was to stop radiation leaks that are terrorizing the public and hampering work to cool the overheated nuclear fuel rods.
"We have not escaped from a situation of crisis, but is somewhat stabilized," said Goshi Hosono, ruling party lawmaker and adviser to Kan. "How much will achieve (the goal of stopping the leakage of radiation)? I think that several months would be a goal," said Hosono Fuji TV on Sunday.
Faced with the prolonged crisis, about two-thirds of Japanese voters believe the ruling Democratic Party should form a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP for its acronym in English), showed a Yomiuri newspaper survey. Kan last month invited Sadakazu Tanigaki, head of the LDP, to join the Cabinet as deputy prime minister for help in the disaster, but Tanigaki refused.
During the weekend the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), found a crack in a concrete hole in its reactor complex number 2 in the Fukushima Daiichi, which generated readings of 1,000 mSv of radiation per hour the air inside. The leak did not stop after the concrete was poured into the pit and TEPCO will use polymers that absorb water to prevent the discharge more pollution.
Officials believe that the crack can be a source of radiation leakage that have hampered efforts to control the complex of six reactors and sent radiation levels in the sea to 4 thousand times over the legal limit. Nishiyama said three of the six reactors were mostly stable now. TEPCO has said he will rule at least four reactors once they are under control, but this could take years or even decades.
The magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March have left nearly 28,000 dead or missing and left in ruins the northeast coast of Japan. The disaster has affected the country's output and left damage that could reach 300 billion dollars. American and Japanese soldiers, after an intensive search by air and sea, they recovered another 77 bodies, said Sunday the Kyodo news agency.
Kan Prime Minister is under intense pressure in its efforts to lead Japan through its worst crisis since the Second World War, but after three weeks many citizens are angry because the humanitarian disaster seems to have taken a back seat to the nuclear crisis . Unpopular and under pressure to resign or call early elections before the disaster, Kan has been criticized for his handling of the crisis.
The support of the Government of Kan voters was 31 percent in the Yomiuri poll, up from 24 percent in the previous survey conducted before the quake. However, it also showed that almost 70% of respondents believe that Khan is not exercising leadership, and 19 percent of them want to quit soon.
More than 163.710 people are living in shelters, with more than 70 thousand people evacuated from a restricted area 20 kilometers from the plant, and another 136 thousand people who live 10 miles away received the suggestion to leave or to stay within their homes. The government estimates the damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami between 190 billion and 298 billion dollars.
The upper range of the estimate would make it the costliest natural disaster in the world. Manufacturing in the third-largest economy has fallen to a two years due to constant power outages and damage caused by the earthquake affecting the supply and production chains. 
"We have not escaped from a situation of crisis, but is somewhat stabilized," said Goshi Hosono, ruling party lawmaker and adviser to Kan. "How much will achieve (the goal of stopping the leakage of radiation)? I think that several months would be a goal," said Hosono Fuji TV on Sunday.
Faced with the prolonged crisis, about two-thirds of Japanese voters believe the ruling Democratic Party should form a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP for its acronym in English), showed a Yomiuri newspaper survey. Kan last month invited Sadakazu Tanigaki, head of the LDP, to join the Cabinet as deputy prime minister for help in the disaster, but Tanigaki refused.
During the weekend the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), found a crack in a concrete hole in its reactor complex number 2 in the Fukushima Daiichi, which generated readings of 1,000 mSv of radiation per hour the air inside. The leak did not stop after the concrete was poured into the pit and TEPCO will use polymers that absorb water to prevent the discharge more pollution.
Officials believe that the crack can be a source of radiation leakage that have hampered efforts to control the complex of six reactors and sent radiation levels in the sea to 4 thousand times over the legal limit. Nishiyama said three of the six reactors were mostly stable now. TEPCO has said he will rule at least four reactors once they are under control, but this could take years or even decades.
The magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March have left nearly 28,000 dead or missing and left in ruins the northeast coast of Japan. The disaster has affected the country's output and left damage that could reach 300 billion dollars. American and Japanese soldiers, after an intensive search by air and sea, they recovered another 77 bodies, said Sunday the Kyodo news agency.
Kan Prime Minister is under intense pressure in its efforts to lead Japan through its worst crisis since the Second World War, but after three weeks many citizens are angry because the humanitarian disaster seems to have taken a back seat to the nuclear crisis . Unpopular and under pressure to resign or call early elections before the disaster, Kan has been criticized for his handling of the crisis.
The support of the Government of Kan voters was 31 percent in the Yomiuri poll, up from 24 percent in the previous survey conducted before the quake. However, it also showed that almost 70% of respondents believe that Khan is not exercising leadership, and 19 percent of them want to quit soon.
More than 163.710 people are living in shelters, with more than 70 thousand people evacuated from a restricted area 20 kilometers from the plant, and another 136 thousand people who live 10 miles away received the suggestion to leave or to stay within their homes. The government estimates the damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami between 190 billion and 298 billion dollars.
The upper range of the estimate would make it the costliest natural disaster in the world. Manufacturing in the third-largest economy has fallen to a two years due to constant power outages and damage caused by the earthquake affecting the supply and production chains.
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