Thursday, March 17, 2011

Nuclear disaster in Japan: A Race Against Time

Destroyed: Reactor Number 3. After fighting the earthquake and tsunami on Japan desperately against the ever threatening becoming nuclear disaster. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the experts had to be removed on Wednesday temporarily because it was too large due to excessive radiation health risk.

Five days after the devastating natural disaster, the Japanese Emperor Akihito turned to his people. In the first pure television address his rule expressed the 77-year-old monarch of the victims his condolences. The situation in the nuclear power plants he described as unpredictable.


To minimize radiation exposure to about 180 members of the emergency team worked in rotating shifts in the danger zone. In addition to the imminent or already partially elapsed core meltdown in the reactors experts are giving increasing the fuel rods in the relatively weakly protected cooling ponds of great concern.

Fears of a huge nuclear disaster threatens to push the consequences of the devastating earthquake of magnitude 9.0 and the subsequent tsunamis in the background: Millions of Japanese have already had to endure a fifth day without water, electricity and heating. According to police, more than 450,000 people have sought refuge in emergency shelters.

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