Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Nuclear Agency of Japan requested TEPCO to review their measurement systems

Nuclear Security Agency of Japan has asked the company operating the plant in Fukushima, TEPCO, to revise its system of measurement error after Sunday, when it reported a level of radioactivity in the plant to 10 million times to normal was actually 100,000, NHK reported. According to the Japanese network NHK TV, operators still working at the plant on Monday will try to drain polluted water from the reactor 1 while fears that delayed efforts to cool the units 2 and 3 due to high levels of radioactivity detected.

Also, Sunday was identified millisievert radiation than 1,000 when the reactor 2, which fears damage to the reactor core or in the pipes that carry radioactive water from the turbines and the core. Analyses of Nuclear Safety Agency and the utility said it has found water with high levels of radiation in the turbine building units 1, 2 and 3.

TEPCO has also asked independent research to investigate whether radioactive substances Fukushima out of plutonium, which so far has been unable to identify with their own methods. Fukushima Daiichi plant was seriously damaged by the earthquake on March 11 devastated parts of northeastern Japan and the tsunami generated by the earthquake, with waves up to 14 meters that inundated the plant.

The latest official figures reported a further increase in fatalities, which have already reached the 10,872 people killed, while 16,244 are still missing. Since the disaster struck, there have been over 700 replies and almost daily there is a tremor of 6 degrees on the Richter scale. The last, this morning (Spanish time) when you felt an earthquake of 6.5 degrees off the coast of Miyagi province, curiously, the most affected by the devastating earthquake of 11 March.

Soon after, authorities issued a tsunami warning in the area for the possibility that small waves reach the coast feet. An hour and a half later, however, the alert has been withdrawn, as recorded by NHK. In the coastal town of Ishinomaki (Miyagi) the tremor had a magnitude of 5 on the Japanese scale of 7 degrees, while most of the coast of the province felt a level 4.

Also in Tokyo might feel, though so far not been informed of the damage. Also this morning has been known that the chief executive of Tepco, Masataka Shimizu, 66, has returned to work after ill on 16 March, just five days after the disaster. The manager called and left on medical leave at that time the cabinet crisis that created Japan's government and the company, as recorded by the newspaper "Mainichi Shimbun, quoting officials of the company.

"He was not in the group of crisis, but has been receiving timely information from the state of the situation and has continued to give instructions," the publication said a spokesman for TEPCO. However, according to Kyodo news agency, Shimizu has been reinstated and to work. At this time, his absence at the head of crisis management has been questioned by several media.

His position has taken the company's vice president, Sakae Muto.

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