2011年4月20日星期三

Japan keeps Publishing House on returnees to nuclear zone - voice of America

VOA News April 20, 2011

Japanese officials say, are considering it, steps to legally enforce a zone within 20 kilometres from the crippled nuclear power station Fukushima.

More than 60,000 people have been out of the zone shortly after the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, which set, evacuated cooling systems out of action in the work. But Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on Wednesday that some residents and others to stay again despite the Advisory away themselves were a Government car.

Edano said, the Government talks local about ways to legally enforce the restriction. Press reports Prime Minister Naoto Kan said probably the measures during a visit in the region will announce on Thursday and that the restrictions as already this week can enter into force.

In this work, engineers are working since Tuesday at more than 10,000 tons of highly radioactive water from the basement and utility tunnels on one of the six reactors for pumps. Officials said water levels in the tunnel-about two inches per day has increased hatte-- down about an inch were Wednesday morning.

Create a device which facility of the decontamination of 50 tons of water per hour, so can to keep it facilities at the nuclear fuel rods from overheating has asked a French company, Areva,. Officials hope that the system is in operation at the beginning of June.

Officials with the Tokyo electric power company, the plant operator, the heavily damaged reactor building published the first photos of within two on Wednesday. The images were sent by remote-controlled robot to measure radiation levels, whether people can go safely back in.

Japan's NHK television said the robot access to one of the buildings has been hampered by the debris. Another building was the home so that the lens of the camera immediately to MISTED steamy.

Kyodo News Agency cited a doctor, some of the men fight, say that to stabilize men examined the plant are at risk of depression or death by overwork. The doctor said that the workers of some of the lost, pushing their own family members in the tsunami itself of moral responsibility.

Despite the problems, an official at the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday in Vienna that leaking steadily down come the levels of emissions from the plant. IAEA experts Denis Flory, said that, if something unforeseen happens, he not leaking expect radiation in the environment, continued current levels to increase.

The Japanese Government has set for the first time radiation safety for school playgrounds in the Prefecture around the facility. It said, normal playground activities should remain permissible radiation of the current situation.

National Police late Tuesday said that the confirmed death of toll in the earthquake and tsunami has now 14,000, with more than 13.600 crowned is still lacking others. More than 90 percent of the victims back so far from drowning died, and, that were more than 65 percent of them above age 60.


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