Fukushima, all the truth (and denials) of the Government, and TEPCO nuclear experts

A protester during an anti-nuclear protest in Tokyo More than a month after the earthquake and resulting tsunamis that caused the crisis - not yet returned - the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the actors of disaster management Nipponese are unable to d ' agreement. Not even with themselves and even the same day.

On 12 April, for example, the Japanese government raised the assessment of severity of the nuclear level 7, the same as the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. According to the Japanese Prime Minister, however, Naoto Kan, "the situation is stabilizing in Fukushima step by step, radiation is decreasing." "The total amount of radioactive material released in the accident is 10% of that released in the case of Chernobyl," specify the Japanese Association of Industrial and Nuclear Safety (Nisa).

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.