Technicians dressed in diving suits cross the security perimeter and get lost in the horizon walking towards road vehicles. They go to the heart of the Fukushima nuclear plant, the place that everyone tries to get away. Japan lives in fear and uncertainty its first nuclear exodus from the atomic bombing that destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Tens of thousands of people from towns located around the plant were evacuated, but even those supposedly outside the danger zone try to flee. "We do not know what is going on. The government is lying. I fear it is another Chernobyl," says Onoda waiting his turn to petrol at a service station of the Tohoku Expressway.
A man crosses the line of cars, half a kilometer long, hoisting a poster has written that he is willing to pay for a barrel of fuel: '50 .000 yen "(about 500 euros). The panic has increased for hours by contradictory reports of the Government, ensure that hours after he had controlled the situation admitted the possibility that it had triggered a meltdown process in reactors 1 and 3 nuclear power plant.
The country is now at the emergency level four of the seven possible and technicians do not rule out the occurrence of further explosions at the complex. "We hope that if that happens, the reactors are not damaged," said government spokesman Yukio Edan. Although the security perimeter is 20 miles, police checks and prevent closer than 30 kilometers.
Shops and public buildings are closed and people in the area begin to suffer problems with food and water supply. Even the posters announcing the "closed indefinitely" to prevent the entry of supermarkets that hundreds of people crowding in front of the windows hoping to buy supplies. "Who knows when we leave? I'm so scared," said Junko, a mother of two who was looking for food in a '7-Eleven 'with completely empty shelves.
Radiation levels have already exceeded the safety limit in the vicinity of the nuclear plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) and about 200 people are under observation after receiving unrealized amounts of radiation. Three of the four nuclear reactors have had cooling problems.
A 'minimum' leakage of radioactive cesium, the collapse of one of the capsules that protect the reactor number 1 and incidents of the last hours in the third international experts have been describing the situation as 'very serious', in contrast to Government attempts to downplay the crisis.
Authorities in several cities near the plants have begun to distribute drugs to alleviate the effects of a hypothetical radioactive contamination in police stations and hospitals, many of whom became a haven for those left homeless. Tezuka was born, raised and lived the last 25 years in a small village in the shadow of the nuclear plant.
His initial reluctance to be evacuated became urgent when he heard the explosion Saturday injured four workers in the reactor number one. "The smoke enveloped all. We think it would come out alive," he said before boarding a car that would be evacuated to the city of Iwaki, 200 miles south.
The earthquake that hit the east coast of Japan on Friday, the scale has been revised up to a scale of 9, and the tsunami that caused minutes have overwhelmed one of the most advanced and organized the world. The city of Sendai, facing the epicenter of the earthquake in the Pacific Ocean, 130 kilometers from the Ojika peninsula, is being abandoned by many of the survivors.
Most of the population of one million inhabitants, no electricity and the earthquake off the supply of running water. Rooftops and helicopters fly over rooftops, rescuing survivors, one by one they were saved from the waves in the last minute. "We know that there are still people alive and we are focused on their rescue," said a firefighter who works in a ruined building with four floors, near the port area.
An expanse of rubble marks the spot where three days ago a leading seething tourist destinations. The elderly say the landscape reminds them of their city after the bombing it suffered during World War II, when it was completely destroyed by Allied pilots. The extreme situation has not altered the orderly nature of the Japanese.
There have been no looting, the survivors wait patiently for their turn to drink or get some food and there are no scenes of panic. The residents of Sendai and the towns of the east coast await the arrival of aid resigned. Those who can leave with the direction of Tokyo and the western cities that have not been damaged.
The rest is preparing for another night of cold and hardship at Ground Zero of the tsunami. 
Tens of thousands of people from towns located around the plant were evacuated, but even those supposedly outside the danger zone try to flee. "We do not know what is going on. The government is lying. I fear it is another Chernobyl," says Onoda waiting his turn to petrol at a service station of the Tohoku Expressway.
A man crosses the line of cars, half a kilometer long, hoisting a poster has written that he is willing to pay for a barrel of fuel: '50 .000 yen "(about 500 euros). The panic has increased for hours by contradictory reports of the Government, ensure that hours after he had controlled the situation admitted the possibility that it had triggered a meltdown process in reactors 1 and 3 nuclear power plant.
The country is now at the emergency level four of the seven possible and technicians do not rule out the occurrence of further explosions at the complex. "We hope that if that happens, the reactors are not damaged," said government spokesman Yukio Edan. Although the security perimeter is 20 miles, police checks and prevent closer than 30 kilometers.
Shops and public buildings are closed and people in the area begin to suffer problems with food and water supply. Even the posters announcing the "closed indefinitely" to prevent the entry of supermarkets that hundreds of people crowding in front of the windows hoping to buy supplies. "Who knows when we leave? I'm so scared," said Junko, a mother of two who was looking for food in a '7-Eleven 'with completely empty shelves.
Radiation levels have already exceeded the safety limit in the vicinity of the nuclear plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) and about 200 people are under observation after receiving unrealized amounts of radiation. Three of the four nuclear reactors have had cooling problems.
A 'minimum' leakage of radioactive cesium, the collapse of one of the capsules that protect the reactor number 1 and incidents of the last hours in the third international experts have been describing the situation as 'very serious', in contrast to Government attempts to downplay the crisis.
Authorities in several cities near the plants have begun to distribute drugs to alleviate the effects of a hypothetical radioactive contamination in police stations and hospitals, many of whom became a haven for those left homeless. Tezuka was born, raised and lived the last 25 years in a small village in the shadow of the nuclear plant.
His initial reluctance to be evacuated became urgent when he heard the explosion Saturday injured four workers in the reactor number one. "The smoke enveloped all. We think it would come out alive," he said before boarding a car that would be evacuated to the city of Iwaki, 200 miles south.
The earthquake that hit the east coast of Japan on Friday, the scale has been revised up to a scale of 9, and the tsunami that caused minutes have overwhelmed one of the most advanced and organized the world. The city of Sendai, facing the epicenter of the earthquake in the Pacific Ocean, 130 kilometers from the Ojika peninsula, is being abandoned by many of the survivors.
Most of the population of one million inhabitants, no electricity and the earthquake off the supply of running water. Rooftops and helicopters fly over rooftops, rescuing survivors, one by one they were saved from the waves in the last minute. "We know that there are still people alive and we are focused on their rescue," said a firefighter who works in a ruined building with four floors, near the port area.
An expanse of rubble marks the spot where three days ago a leading seething tourist destinations. The elderly say the landscape reminds them of their city after the bombing it suffered during World War II, when it was completely destroyed by Allied pilots. The extreme situation has not altered the orderly nature of the Japanese.
There have been no looting, the survivors wait patiently for their turn to drink or get some food and there are no scenes of panic. The residents of Sendai and the towns of the east coast await the arrival of aid resigned. Those who can leave with the direction of Tokyo and the western cities that have not been damaged.
The rest is preparing for another night of cold and hardship at Ground Zero of the tsunami.
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