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The image, obtained by satellite, Fukushima Plant, which shows that the reactor number 3 is on fire. ***
Japan is preparing for a potential radioactive catastrophe.
Two new nuclear blasts FUKUSHIN-1.
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Madridpress.com Wednesday March 16, 2011.
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Japan on Tuesday faced a potential catastrophe after explosions in two reactors at a nuclear plant Fukushima-1 affected by the earthquake on Friday to send low levels of radioactive particles to Tokyo, leading to escapes from the capital and queuing to gain basic supplies.
Fear of a replica of Level 7 in 72 hours.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan , asked people who were in a radius of 30 km around the facility, located north of Tokyo with a population of 140,000 people , not to leave outside in the middle of the nuclear crisis worst since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.
While growing concern for the impact on Japan's economy burdened twice nuclear disaster and earthquake, Japanese stocks fell to 14 per cent before closing with a drop of 9.5 percent, extending the decline of 7.6 percent seen the previous day. The two-day retreat erased about 620,000 million dollars from the market.
Radiation in Maebashi City, 100 kilometers north of Tokyo reached 10 times normal levels, reported Kyodo news agency. In the capital only low levels were detected, so far "are not a problem," city officials said.
"The possibility of increased radiation leakage is increasing," Kan said in a somber address to the nation. "We are making every effort to avoid spreading the leak. I know that many people are worried, but I would tell them to act calm," said Khan.
On Tuesday there were two explosions on two of the reactors at the nuclear facility after days of desperate efforts to cool. Kyodo news agency said the nuclear fuel pool in the reactor number 4 could be boiling, suggesting that the crisis is far from overcome.
levels of 400 milli sieverts per hour were recorded near the reactor 4, the government said. Exposure to more than 100 military sieverts year is a level that can cause cancer, according to the World Nuclear Association.
The central operator 750 workers withdrew, leaving only 50, while it has imposed an air exclusion zone of 30 km around the plant.
FEAR IN TOKYO.
"Radioactive Material Tokyo reached but not harmful to humans because by the time you get there will be dissolved, "said Koji Yamazaki, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Hokkaido." If the wind intensifies, the material will fly faster but also more dispersed in the air. "
winds on the nuclear plant is moving slowly to the southwest in a direction that Tokyo would include, but are diverted to the west later on Tuesday, reported a forecast.
Despite appeals for calm, Tokyo residents rushed to stores to stock up on supplies. Don Quixote, a department store open 24 hours in the Roppongi district, selling radios, flashlights, candles and sleeping bags.
In a sign of growing regional concerns about the radiation risk, China said it would evacuate its citizens from the affected areas but had not detected abnormal radiation in its territory. Air China said it had canceled its flights to Tokyo.
Several embassies advised their citizens to leave employees in the affected areas. Holiday suspensions were multinational companies or ask their workers who either march said they were considering plans to move to another location outside of Tokyo.
"I have fear. Very afraid and would rather be in the eye of a tornado," said 10-year old Lucy Niver Egan, Minnesota (USA), who was vacationing in Japan. "I want to go."
Japanese media have taken a more critical by Kang response to the disaster and criticized the government and the nuclear plant operator, TEPCO, for not providing enough information about the incident .
citizens want information about health risks. "A very intense radiation, such as occurred at Chernobyl and Japanese workers at the nuclear plant is unlikely in the population," said Lam Ching-wan, a chemical pathologist at the University of Hong Kong.
However, the explosion could expose people to radiation for a long time, which may increase the risk of thyroid and bone cancers and leukemia, he said. Children and fetuses are particularly vulnerable.
"scene from hell"
still is knowing the extent of destruction caused by Friday's powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami, while rescue teams were moving through the region north of Tokyo, where it is feared that at least 10,000 have died people.
"It's a scene from hell, quite a nightmare," said Patrick Fuller, International Federation of Red Cross, from the coastal city of Otsuchi.
Kan Prime Minister said that Japan was facing its worst crisis since World War II, with financial costs estimated at up to 180,000 disaster billion, analysts say the Japanese economy, the third largest in the world, could fall back into recession.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday that the magnitude of the earthquake rose to 9 from the previous 8.9 degrees, making him the fourth most powerful since 1900.
The automotive industry, shipbuilders and technology companies were struggling for supplies after the disaster forced to close factories in Japan, and ceased global production chain.
Almost 850,000 households were without power in northern Iraq, according to Tohuku Electric Power Company and the Government said that at least 1.5 million had no drinking water. Tens of thousands of people remain missing.
economic impact estimates are beginning to emerge. Hiromichi Shirakawa, chief Japan economist at Credit Suisse, said in a note to clients that the losses would range between 171,000 and 183,000 million dollars only in the region affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
The earthquake has forced many companies to suspend production and shares of major Japanese companies tumbled Monday, with Toyota dropping nearly 8 percent.
international firms faced disruptions in their activities due to the earthquake and tsunami destroyed vital infrastructure damaged and toppled ports from factories supplying high-tech components to steel.
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says the plant "is out of control."
Energy Commissioner, Günther Oettinger , has described "apocalypse" the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant caused by the earthquake that hit Japan last Friday and said that "almost everything is out of control" in that plant.
"There has been talk of apocalypse and I believe this is particularly well-chosen word," Oettinger said in an appearance before the commission Power of Parliament. The sheriff said "very concerned" about what is happening in the last hours in central Fukushima considering that "almost everything is out of control."
"I hope not the worst happens, but we can not exclude the worst happens in the coming hours and days," warned the Commissioner for Energy.
Oettinger has insisted that, although Japan has "great engineers" and "art" can no longer guarantee the safety and operational control of the plant.
The Commission is in permanent contact with the International Energy, his delegation in Tokyo and with "all possible information sources" to monitor the situation, has said Energy Commissioner.
has also announced that Japan's nuclear accident and its consequences be addressed at the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU to be held on 24 and 25 March.
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