Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Pentagon sent experts to nine nuclear Japan

Washington. .- The Department of Defense announced today the United States sent a team of nine specialists on biological and nuclear threats to advise the Japanese authorities. The Pentagon spokesman David Lapan, also reported that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has approved a round of initial $ 35 million for humanitarian aid.

The nine military will work with the Japanese Government to consider the consequences of a radioactive leak from nuclear plant in Fukushima, northeast of the country, caused by the earthquake and tsunami of last Friday, has caused at least 14,000 dead or missing. Its mission will also advise U.S.


commanders deployed in Japan to decide whether to send additional troops, he added. EE. UU. and has sent 34 officials of the Department of Energy Regulatory Commission Nuclear Energy and other agencies to assist in several areas, and 3,260 tons of equipment to Japan to measure radiation levels after the explosion of three reactors destroyed the plant, said Tuesday the government.

The Defense Department also announced today that military families and civilians working in the 85 U.S. bases in Japan will be relocated. Pentagon notification occurs hours later that the State Department authorized the displacement of employees of the northeast area of Japan.

"The U.S. government also works to facilitate the departure of U.S. citizens in a radius of 80 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant," said Lapan, as recommended on Wednesday the U.S. embassy. UU. in Tokyo. This relocation will be temporary, he explained, and families "back when the situation in the region has been resolved." Meanwhile, said the U.S.

military remain in Japan and the United States "has full capacity to meet its alliance commitments to defend Japan and maintain peace and security in the region." The United States has 38,000 soldiers deployed in Japan in 85 bases on the islands of Honshu, and Okinawa and 11,000 Kyshu on ships of the Seventh Fleet.

They also work for the Department of Defense U.S. 5,000 civilians, 43,000 Japanese and 25,000 contracted under the agreement for mutual cooperation and security signed in 1960. The United States has sent 14 ships, two fire trucks, 113 helicopters and 17,000 sailors and Marines to participate in rescue and assistance, and 448,000 liters of water and 1,906 tons of food.

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