nuclear crisis worsens in Japan and global alarm is 03/15/1911 - 14:01
Today there was a reply in that province which affected the plant. In addition, there was an explosion. And they began to suffer inconveniences reactors 4, 5 and 6, so that there are flaws in the six. France says the situation is to a degree of Chernobyl.
Earthquake in Japan, the nuclear crisis over the hours and the work of the operators have not brought relief to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Quite the contrary. Today is the hardest day of the plant since the earthquake of 8.9 magnitude on the Richter scale on 11 March. A new set of problems triggered the alert to the point that France, one of the leading nations in nuclear power, says the crisis in Japan was only a degree of Chernobyl.
André-Claude Lacoste, Chairman of the Nuclear Safety Authority of France, one of the atomic members of the Security Council of the UN, said today that after the new problems, the nuclear crisis reached level 6 of the International Nuclear Event Scale and Radiological (INES, its acronym in English). This is the second most serious level and is below the tragedy of Ukraine's Chernobyl plant in 1986 which reached level 7.
The alarm for a leaking radioactive nuclear disaster continued to rise steadily in the Fukushima nuclear plant. The first problem I had today the plant was a strong aftershock of 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale with epicenter in the province where it is located. Then came an explosion that caused a fire in the reactor 4 of the Kozloduy dramatically worsened the situation: the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed the direct release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere.
"The Japanese authorities said Monday that the pool of spent fuel storage in reactor number 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi center was in flames and radioactivity emitted directly into the atmosphere," said a statement from the IAEA.
"In the place of radioactivity measured rates up to 400 millisieverts (the measure establishing the degree of radioactivity) per hour," the IAEA and said it remains in contact with the Japanese authorities and watch closely the developments of the situation.
Japanese media said the fire would be "apparently off" but still the inconvenience. Earlier there had been another explosion in the reactor 2 of the plant. For the IAEA, its core is damaged. Moreover, the reactors 5 and 6 also suffered overheating in the drums where they keep the nuclear fuel. Thus, the six plants of the plant are in deep trouble. The number 1 is the bearing the brunt and where most operators have worked since 11 March.
The dangerous level radioactive leak prompted the government to expand the evacuation area to 30 miles. The Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, and other officials warned of danger of further leaks occur and advised people to stay indoors. Some 180,000 people have been evacuated from a radius of 20 kilometers.
"Please keep off the streets. Stay at home. Close windows and seal cracks in the windows. Do not turn on the fans. Hang your laundry in their homes''he advised.
"The level seems to be very high, and there is still a big risk that the radiation increase further," said Khan. "We are deploying our best efforts to prevent new outbreaks and new radioactive leaks," he added.
This and the worst nuclear crisis has affected Japan since the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. It is also the first time that such a nuclear threat was made in the world since the disaster at the Ukrainian nuclear plant in Chernobyl in 1986. Indeed, Ukraine offered today to send to Japan the same experts who worked on the nuclear disaster.
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