Japan March 11 lived the greatest catastrophe in its history. A magnitude 9 earthquake caused a devastating tsunami that swept across the coast to Japan. 13,116 killed, 14,377 still missing and 150,000 homeless, according to the latest count by the police. But the biggest concern during these 30 days has been and remains the state of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant severely damaged by the tsunami and the earthquake.
During this time they have lived explosions, radiation leaks, incorrect data, ocean dumping, contaminated water, food with high levels of radiation, ultimately panic and especially great lack of information. Although, the government spokesman Yukio Edan, appeared day after day to offer a balance of the plant, along with the operators of the company that owns the plant, TEPCO, little has been the peace who have given their data.
First, because many believe they have lied and continue to do so or at least hide information. And second, because every time I gave a positive to the hours the plant was living a new crisis. The little that came from Fukushima, it was through the 300 workers who were and are there, and does not seem sufficient since they have practically no contact with the outside.
The threat of a nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl (1984) hung over the world. The information was not getting promised a better future for the Japanese plant, but from the government and TEPCO was trying to convey a tense calm. The reactor containment vessels are destroyed in the number 1, 2, 3 and 4, the cooling systems of the Swimming pool of fuel do not work, the fuel rods have been cast in some nuclei and attempts to cool the cores were flooded reactors with tons of radioactive water are leaking to the outside and there are fears that high concentrations of hydrogen produced more explosions.
According to experts, the nuclear crisis by passing glimpse Fukushima has not ended and warn that it is a race against time in weeks or months to achieve stabilization of the plant. "It is obvious that the plant is unable to function normally," he acknowledged Edan. A statement of intent that passed through the central announce the restart and would never be dismantled.
The problem is how to dismantle something that is uncontrollable. Indeed, today announced Edan extending the evacuation zone of the plant, which until now was in 20 miles. Edan said the new evacuation plans apply to places like Iitate, 40 km from the plant and the town of Minami Soma, which have measured high levels of radioactivity accumulated.
The nuclear crisis must be added the humanitarian crisis has raised fears of radiation. Entire families have been forced to flee their homes around the plant, and now occupy are crowded among the more than 2,300 temporary shelters, which house a total of 153,000 people, which have been authorized by the Government.
In Rikuzentakata, one of the cities destroyed, a woman in her thirties still searching through the rubble of his home. "It's been a month and I am always looking for a personal object, or even find a picture," he said. "I am very concerned about what will happen now, or I can find work ...", he added.
And is that the Japanese economy is another major concern. In addition to the tens of thousands of people hit by the nuclear catátrofe and panic, the other will be the big bump that will face Japan's economy. The third largest economy in the world until 11 March and also one of the most indebted, will face reconstruction costs valued at 300,000 million dollars.
A money that will return the power to all affected areas, provide grants for companies that have stopped production, encouraging the Japanese stock market compared to international markets and especially, rebuild the country. Despite the nuclear crisis, human, energy (270,000 households still without power) and the Japan economy faces, the Japanese people has shown a value that seems to be impossible in other parts of the world.
In the capital, Tokyo, life has continued as if there was nothing that the curb, while the coastal towns, the most devastated by the earthquake, survivors continue to show a calm and know to be characteristic of Japanese . 
During this time they have lived explosions, radiation leaks, incorrect data, ocean dumping, contaminated water, food with high levels of radiation, ultimately panic and especially great lack of information. Although, the government spokesman Yukio Edan, appeared day after day to offer a balance of the plant, along with the operators of the company that owns the plant, TEPCO, little has been the peace who have given their data.
First, because many believe they have lied and continue to do so or at least hide information. And second, because every time I gave a positive to the hours the plant was living a new crisis. The little that came from Fukushima, it was through the 300 workers who were and are there, and does not seem sufficient since they have practically no contact with the outside.
The threat of a nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl (1984) hung over the world. The information was not getting promised a better future for the Japanese plant, but from the government and TEPCO was trying to convey a tense calm. The reactor containment vessels are destroyed in the number 1, 2, 3 and 4, the cooling systems of the Swimming pool of fuel do not work, the fuel rods have been cast in some nuclei and attempts to cool the cores were flooded reactors with tons of radioactive water are leaking to the outside and there are fears that high concentrations of hydrogen produced more explosions.
According to experts, the nuclear crisis by passing glimpse Fukushima has not ended and warn that it is a race against time in weeks or months to achieve stabilization of the plant. "It is obvious that the plant is unable to function normally," he acknowledged Edan. A statement of intent that passed through the central announce the restart and would never be dismantled.
The problem is how to dismantle something that is uncontrollable. Indeed, today announced Edan extending the evacuation zone of the plant, which until now was in 20 miles. Edan said the new evacuation plans apply to places like Iitate, 40 km from the plant and the town of Minami Soma, which have measured high levels of radioactivity accumulated.
The nuclear crisis must be added the humanitarian crisis has raised fears of radiation. Entire families have been forced to flee their homes around the plant, and now occupy are crowded among the more than 2,300 temporary shelters, which house a total of 153,000 people, which have been authorized by the Government.
In Rikuzentakata, one of the cities destroyed, a woman in her thirties still searching through the rubble of his home. "It's been a month and I am always looking for a personal object, or even find a picture," he said. "I am very concerned about what will happen now, or I can find work ...", he added.
And is that the Japanese economy is another major concern. In addition to the tens of thousands of people hit by the nuclear catátrofe and panic, the other will be the big bump that will face Japan's economy. The third largest economy in the world until 11 March and also one of the most indebted, will face reconstruction costs valued at 300,000 million dollars.
A money that will return the power to all affected areas, provide grants for companies that have stopped production, encouraging the Japanese stock market compared to international markets and especially, rebuild the country. Despite the nuclear crisis, human, energy (270,000 households still without power) and the Japan economy faces, the Japanese people has shown a value that seems to be impossible in other parts of the world.
In the capital, Tokyo, life has continued as if there was nothing that the curb, while the coastal towns, the most devastated by the earthquake, survivors continue to show a calm and know to be characteristic of Japanese .
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