jueves, 17 de marzo de 2011
Disaster in Japan
A huge blast has caused further damage at one of two nuclear power plants which the Japanese government had placed under a state of emergency, compounding fears of a nuclear meltdown.
Several workers were reported to have been injured and exposed to radiation.
As reports suggested the toll had risen to at least 1,700 deaths, an unconfirmed report on Japan's Fuji TV claimed that as many as 10,000 people were missing in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture.
There were also reports that the hourly radiation levels at the damaged Japanese nuclear plant match the allowable annual d
Japanese TV began warning people living near Fukushima nuclear power station to stay indoors. Residents were being told to turn off air-conditioners and not to drink tap water. People going outside were also been told to aviod exposing their skin and to cover their faces with masks and wet towels.
Prime minister Naoto Kan had earlier warned that a radiation leak might occur at one of the reactors at the Daiichi facility at Fukushima, which is close to the stretch of coast that took the full force of the tsunami triggered by Friday's 8.9-magnitude quake.
The reports of an explosion followed aftershocks and came as a huge humanitarian operation got under way. A team of British rescue workers was preparing to fly to Japan on Saturday afternoon.
The team, mobilised after the Japanese government requested help from Britain’s Department for International Development, is expected to consist of four doctors plus 55 fire service personnel from Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, Hertfordshire, Cheshire, West Sussex, Wales, Kent, Lincolnshire and Lancashire.
ose, increasing the risk of developing cancer for anyone exposed to the leak.
Japanese TV began warning people living near Fukushima nuclear power station to stay indoors. Residents were being told to turn off air-conditioners and not to drink tap water. People going outside were also been told to aviod exposing their skin and to cover their faces with masks and wet towels.
Prime minister Naoto Kan had earlier warned that a radiation leak might occur at one of the reactors at the Daiichi facility at Fukushima, which is close to the stretch of coast that took the full force of the tsunami triggered by Friday's 8.9-magnitude quake.
The reports of an explosion followed aftershocks and came as a huge humanitarian operation got under way. A team of British rescue workers was preparing to fly to Japan on Saturday afternoon.
The team, mobilised after the Japanese government requested help from Britain’s Department for International Development, is expected to consist of four doctors plus 55 fire service personnel from Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, Hertfordshire, Cheshire, West Sussex, Wales, Kent, Lincolnshire and Lancashire.
ose, increasing the risk of developing cancer for anyone exposed to the leak.
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