Japan may prohibit access nuclear plant

The Japan plans to prohibit access to the area evacuated around a nuclear plant damaged in the month last earthquake and tsunami.

Up to 80,000 people lived in the area of 20 km around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants, but almost all of them have left.

However, a few people have been back to check their home, despite the police.

The nuclear power plant has been leaks radiation since its cooling system has been damaged in the earthquake on March 11 and the subsequent tsunami.

Now, officials are indicating for the first time that the area around the plant can be concluded.

"We are considering implementation areas of caution as an option to limit effectively the entry," said the Secretary General of Government Yukio Edano.

Noriyuki Shikata, Member of Edano, said more details on how the access could be controlled are still developed.

"There are a number of people who can enter the area." Under the current regime, we are not able to enforce legally - there is no penalty for entering in the box. There is awareness of the need for a stronger application of the region, said Shikata.

Also, Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the nuclear power plant, said Wednesday that it distributes requests for compensation for persons who were forced to leave the region. The company offers approximately 12 000 US $ per person in initial compensation.

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Japan keeps strengthening access around nuclear plant

The national Government checks with local governments the possibility of creating a "caution zone" around the power plant with a radius of 12 miles, said Yukio Edano, the chief Secretary of Japan's Cabinet. Such a zone would legally enforceable, in contrast to the current evacuation, which is technically voluntary.

As the most radiation liability exemptions Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station were terminated, were some families have a distribution list information area in the last few days and remove well and some journalists have it explored been. Dozens of families left never to the initial evacuation in phases was ordered almost six weeks ago after an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March.

Growing activity in the area of evacuation concern deprived evacuated, which may be their homes while they are away. Nuclear experts have discussion was whether the continuous movement of people, animals and vehicles in the area will hamper decontamination after the nuclear power plant is fully stabilized.

Noriyuki Shikata, a senior Government spokesman, said on Tuesday that the Government did not have the legal authority on people and outgoing the evacuation to prevent zone, nor the legal authority to remove, those that stayed behind. Media reports have suggested that more than 200 homes in the zone, are occupied mainly older people, who are refusing evacuation centres in the gyms to live or farmers who refuse, their livestock.

Plans for a zone caution reported newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, which States that the Government should also inhabitants from their homes to allow Essentials short excursions in the zone.

The Sankei Shimbun reported newspaper on its Web site on Wednesday morning that residents received Minami-soma, which is partly within the north side of the evacuation zone, the city will warn airmen, that a legally enforceable caution zone could be created.

A spokesman for the police prefecture Fukushima, whose Gerichtsbarkeit zone includes the evacuation, said that the police no official figures for how many houses are still occupied. The 12-mile radius from the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident there the Japanese Cabinet after 78,200 residents of the area within.

Decontamination for a larger area to a nuclear accident is very carefully mapping the "hot spots" in the wind and rain may have concentrated radioactive fallout. Contaminated objects are sent to a specially lined landfill; even the dirt dug up might be if pollution is high enough.

Michael Friedlander, a former nuclear power plant operators in the United States and nuclear emergency specialist, today in Hong Kong lives, said in interviews last week and this week it was very important to prevent unnecessary activities in the evacuation zone. He claims that car tyres and other movement around the radioactive dust from the invisible hotspots smear, make it necessary, decontamination of other areas also, or from other areas with low pollution could lead.

But Michael Corradini, the Chairman of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin, said, that already use power crews set up electricity transmission lines on the evacuation zone, to the damaged power station, and with heavy repair equipment is brought and the power plant, the movement of individuals and their vehicles would have probably not much additional effect in the hot spots spread.

More than 62,400 people lived between 12 and 19 km from the power plant. People who were living in the greater area first to remain indoors, but since then asked, voluntarily, along with the residents of the five other communities outside the leave, the also some radioactive fallout as a result of wind and rain patterns received. The Cabinet has not released an estimate for the population of the other five communities.

Ken Ijichi, Moshe comma and Kántaro Suzuki contributed reporting.

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Final cut master access denied

Reporter denied access to the MastersA security guard Tara Sullivan in the locker room masters for an interview not Sullivan, it is "irresponsible" says can be that the guard that the Club PoliciesA spokesman for the elite excused knew Club, not, say, "It can not happen" only men can Augusta National members, but access may female reporter

(CNN) --eine blasted female sports reporter was all male Augusta National Golf Club on Monday, a day after a security guard would not to interview one of the stars of the recent Masters tournament.

Tara Sullivan, a reporter with the Bergen (New Jersey), trying other reporters join Sunday evening in the Club dressing room, Rory McElroy, a 21 year-old from Northern Ireland interview at the end of the four days competition gave up a big lead of. But a security guard said she could not enter because she was a woman.

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"This is not a question of sensitivity." Sullivan said this only a matter of my work is, "Monday." "I am reporter a credentials." "I should be in were allowed to."

On Monday, an official with the Augusta, Georgia, Golf Club, that the guard, error hatte-traded - say that although there are no women members in the Club, female reporter, and therefore the same access as men work should require for their said.

"It not should happen," said Steve Ethun, Augusta National Communications Director, pointing out that the guard out the Club policy. "We are working as hard as possible to ensure that it never happens."

The security guard, who was also female, "was very apologetic" in their access to the locker room in the clubhouse, according to Sullivan.

Sullivan responded with the appointment to federal law that mandates equal access for reporters in such changing rooms, what to get whatever their sex.

"(Guard) said it's kind of this open bathroom area," said the reporter. "I said, ' Yes, like any professional locker room, the I in go.'" "

Male reporter, including Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, in the locker room with was then Sullivan transcripts of interviews with McElroy. Charl Schwartzel won the masters, one of the four "major" professional golf tournaments of.

Sullivan said that it was mostly on completion of their newspaper column when she tried to enter the locker room. It was only after the story she wrote on her Twitter feed: "bad enough no female members in the Augusta." "But does not allow me to authors in the locker room interview is simply wrong."

Years ago it was the former Tatsache-, the the elite Golf Club only men as members-allows, came into the spotlight.

In 2002, women's rights activist Martha Burk started a movement aimed, forcing the prestigious Club, includes many Titans of finance and industry members to open their series of women.

But the Club then President, Hootie Johnson, these efforts, resisted including said in a statement that no changes would come "at the point of the bayonet."

To their situation, Sullivan said it accepted the apology of Augusta national officials. The reporter, said that the Club - and not necessarily the security guard self-supporting - guilt deserves for what transpired.

"It is up to (the Club), the the tournament week security personnel to... What are the guidelines, be informed" Sullivan said national fifth vowed back on Augusta master next spring will cover. "It was such a complete lack of awareness, the inexcusable for the people who run the tournament."CNN's David Wilke contributed to this report.

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