After Fukushima, Tokyo chooses renewable

It's been more than two months after the earthquake that devastated on March 11 and Japan kicked off what will become the most serious nuclear accident in history. The media have long since ceased to be interested in Fukushima, but the news coming from Japan are increasingly disturbing. In recent days, for the first time, TEPCO engineers entered the building of reactor number 1 and made a bitter new discovery: not only the fuel inside the core is molten, but somewhere in the container that contains it, the steel vessel, because in spite of the losses must have been so far injected over 100 thousand tons of water, the level is still low and fail to respond to half this amount that is expected to find in the basement, where is not possible down to excessive levels of radioactivity.

Spain, Región de Murcia earthquake in at least ten victims

Would be at least ten people and wounded dozens in the budget of the earthquake that shook the afternoon Región de Murcia. One of the autonomous communities with the highest seismic risk in Spain. According to government spokesman, Miguel Ángel Pérez, among the victims - because of the collapse of a building in the district of Las Viñas - there would also be a minor.

Two shocks with its epicenter in the Sierra de Tercia, Lorca, between five and ten kilometers northeast of the city center. Damage in the neighboring town of Totana. The first quake, of 4.5 degrees was felt at around 17.30, the second - of 5.1 degrees - nearly two hours later. Citizens are now poured into the streets and some witnesses told the Spanish daily number of scenes of panic.

Japan, new shock measuring 6.2 Ten thousand people dead or missing

At least 2,722 dead and 3,742 missing. And 'This is the official death toll of the earthquake in Japan, so far as spread by the Japanese national police. Serious consequences in the financial sector, with the Tokyo Stock Exchange which closed sharply downward: the Nikkei index has lost 10.55%, but managed to recover from the 14.4% recorded during the session.

15.10 - Flights Alitalia regular "From today, flights" traItalia and Japan "are full and regular, we have only moved up one day, when there will be four flights instead of three." This was confirmed by the chief executive of Alitalia, Rocco Sabelli, on the sidelines of the General Assembly of Unindustria.

Japan, NHK public television: "10 thousand dead in Miyagi prefecture"

Japan faces at this moment the most serious crisis since the Second World War. He said the prime minister, Naoto Kan, at a press conference. Naoto Kan has appealed to citizens because it gives rise to a "new Japan". The death toll is constantly updated. "More than 10 thousand estimated dead in Miyagi prefecture, one of the hardest hit by the earthquake-tsunami on Friday.

The public television reported, the NHK, citing police sources. The figures provided by official count, however, are much more cautious about the Japanese police for more than 3 thousand people dead and missing from the earthquake that devastated the northeast Friday in Japan. Also announced new aftershocks in the coming days with new tsunami warning, according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency.

Tsunami in Japan, radiation alarm Explosion in central Fukushima

It 'very high alert atomic plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, where Japanese authorities believe that the reactor may have undergone a merger after the strong earthquake on Friday. This was announced by the local agency Kyodo. According to the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan has been detected near the plant's radioactive cesium.

The number of evacuees, meanwhile, rose to 210 thousand, in a radius of 20km from power. Parts of the nuclear fuel rods in the reactor number 1 were briefly exposed to the air this morning after cooling, the level of the water temperature fell to evaporation and a fire truck pumped water into the reactor.

Earthquake in Japan, off 11 nuclear power plants

The government of Japan has decided to declare an emergency on nuclear energy. The measure was announced in the case of radioactive leaks from nuclear plants or failures in the cooling system. This would not have occurred but the level of fear is high and the level of radiation at the 'number one nuclear power plant in Fukushima is on the rise.

The eleven central atom 'next to the disaster areas have been closed then, half of them due to lock automatically controlled. The IAEA, the International Agency for Atomic Energy, has assured that the extinguishing operations were completed successfully and safely and that the installation of Onagawa was extinguished a fire in a turbine.