Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Japan, radiation into the sea 3,355 times the normal

The rate of radioactive iodine in the sea, 300 meters from the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima, is 3,355 times the legal limit. This was announced by the Japanese Agency for Nuclear Safety. The Deputy Director of the Agency, Hidehiko Nishiyama, downplayed remembering that the local population was removed and the fishing has been prohibited in the area.

The Japanese government on the initiative of the Ministry of Industry, has ordered an urgent inspection of all nuclear reactors in the country to ensure that no repetition of scenarios such as those that led to corruption and the "criticality" of the central Fukushima nuclear power.
The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Banro Kaieda, sent a letter to that effect at the top of the 9 regional electricity companies nipponiche and two other operators that run nuclear plants. Japan 54/55 reactors, all located along the coast and spread over an archipelago with a very strong earthquake risk.

The initiative, based on what has been explained by Kaieda during a press conference broadcast on TV part, was created after examining mechanisms and deficiencies which led to the crisis of central Fukushima, whose development is still to be safely achieve.

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