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Controversy over radioactive water release in Japan

For some time there have been various controversies regarding the release of weakly radioactive water into the sea from the damaged atomic plant of Fukushima and lately the authorization granted to a substantial release of water contaminated by radionuclides from storage tanks there is talk of two voices of concerned experts among this team of inspectors called to check that the correct procedures for the safety of the nuclear plant are respected. It seems that there should be no particular problems even if some say that the real leaks of radioactive substances from the plant are not known and not sufficiently monitored. China has reportedly banned the import of fish from a fifth of prefectures from Japan (with restrictions also on some foods) and there are also complaints from South Korea with requests for further controls.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 07, 2023 n°: 5382
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Controlled release of radiation into environment

The case of the possible release into the environment, from the containment tanks of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, of more than one million cubic meters of water considered weakly radioactive (due to tritium that escaping special decontamination treatment) into the sea or perhaps causing it to evaporate into the atmosphere has caused debate about the regulations established by international authorities on this type of operation and apparently considered almost normal in the maintenance of the ten-year activities of a nuclear plant, although typically for much smaller quantities. In the meantime there is talk of a series of safety flaws found at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, then Japanese fishermen protest against the decision taken for Fukushima by the Japanese authorities and there is no shortage of complaints from China and Taiwan.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 17, 2021 n°: 4688
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Ten years since the Fukushima disaster

A ceremony in Japan recalls that ten years have passed since the melting of the cores at the Fukushima nuclear power plant caused by a strong earthquake of magnitude nine and subsequent tsunami waves more than sixteen meters high, while the decontamination of the affected area proceeds slowly and some say that the company that manages the plant has learned little from its mistakes and important safety flaws remain. There is talk over time of a peak of four hundred and seventy thousand people forced to evacuate and about forty-one thousand were allowed to return to their homes, then the fuel rods were also removed from reactor three, but for the other two the date (in 2019) was postponed to 2029 and postponements would have been decided with regard to the release into the sea of contaminated water from the cooling tanks, there is also the technical challenges that are difficult to solve.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 11, 2021 n°: 4656
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Delayed dismantling procedures in Fukushima

The Japanese authorities announced that the procedures to remove spent atomic fuel rods from reactors one and two will be delayed by five years, raising doubts about compliance with the decommissioning procedures of the Fukushima plant, then in practice all the various scheduled dates of intervention were postponed. It seems that the delay is justified by safety measures having to build a barrier around unit one to prevent the spread of radioactive dust and for the decontamination of the unit two. The nuclear power plant had recently shown obvious vulnerability due to the impact of Hagibis typhoon, forcing operators to release radioactive water from storage containers (thirty-six of which were lost because they were dragged away by vortex) due to heavy rainfall that saturated the management capacity of the temporary cooling system of the melted reactors.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 28, 2019 n°: 4278
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Controversy in Japan over radiation and typhoons

The decision of the Japanese environment authorities to release radioactive water directly into the Pacific Ocean because the capacity of the containment tanks, filled with more than one million tons of water, was depleted before time from nuclear reactors damaged by a tsunami in 2011, has caused protests from environmentalists and especially fishermen who fear the collapse of the fish market by thwarting efforts to revive the sector and not to only in this country. The water contains tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that is difficult to separate and considered relatively dangerous (compared to other radionuclides that for years some say have been spilled into the sea due to leaks of the cooling system ), and there would be other contaminants whose presence has been admitted by the plant operator in the past. Then there is the talk of controversy about the weakness of infrastructure in Tokyo after the passage of Typhoon Faxai, which also caused three casualties.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 11, 2019 n°: 4185
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Compensate damage to the Fukushima inhabitants

The company that manages the atomic plant of Fukushima must compensate a strong sum to one hundred and fifty-two local residents damaged by the nuclear accident of 2011 (the most serious after that of Chernobyl in 1986), at least from what results from a verdict of the Yokohama district court that stresses how disaster could be avoided by adjusting the plant with a proper barrier against tsunamis. In March of last year a Kyoto court in the west of Japan had already identified the same responsibilities with compensation for a hundred ten resident of Fukushima, but in September 2017 a court of Chiba near Tokyo had judged responsibility only of the operator of the plant. About twelve thousand people forced to leave their homes because of the radiation would be involved in various legal disputes that always concern the underestimation of the tsunami risk by the the government and the operator of the atomic power plant.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 20, 2019 n°: 4010
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Tsunami test declined by Fukushima managers

The operators of the Fukushima atomic plant would have missed the opportunity to do a simulation test to examine the possibility of a disaster in the event of a tsunami in August 2002, at least from what is apparent from the written testimony of the chief to nuclear agency security in those times that highlights how nine years before the huge wave that caused the core to melt into three reactors the TEPCO company refused to respond to the governmental demand. The cause of the disaster was the prolonged absence of refrigeration of the kernels for lack of power and an emergency diesel generator did not work because located in a place too low flooded by the sea water. A few days ago a camera connected to a long inspection mechanism had filmed the debris leaked under the reactor core container number two and this means the presence of a large slit at that point.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 01, 2018 n°: 3680
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Return to Iitate in Japan despite the radiation

Within walking distance of time from discovery of a new relevant radioactive leak from the damaged plant in Fukushima, where not even the robots specially designed to withstand over one thousand Sievert of radiation were able to advance sufficiently inside a reactor to inspect the leak because blinded, the authorities have decided to bring return the population at the end of March in the city now deserted of Iitate; but radiation monitored in this area are still at a level dangerous to health, and then according to some it is a stretch to accelerate the process of turning on the power plant after the disaster of 2011. Others claim that the nuclear industry is still alive and well without having made much progress after the discovery of the alarming vulnerability of many power plants in the world almost as if it was almost a foregone conclusion that there will be no more extreme events that could damage the reactors.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 22, 2017 n°: 3388
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Two other reactors restart in Japan

Despite public opinion in Japan is worried about the safety of nuclear installations in the country the authorities would decide to restart another two reactors in Saga Prefecture after the 2011 disaster in Fukushima that led to the shutdown of all plants, the other two reactors already restarted are at Sendai in Kagoshima Prefecture and at Ikata in Ehime Prefecture. There are also a couple of plants at Takahama in Fukui Prefecture that were restarted last year, but later were turned off by the court for security issues. Some point out how little is learned from the lection about the danger related to strong earthquakes occurring at the Kumamoto Prefecture in April 2016, then there would also be problems related to corrosion detected in some ventilation pipes (all near the sea) caused by salt.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 20, 2017 n°: 3360
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Radiation levels monitored in cattle in Fukushima

Farmers who had head of cattle in the area of Fukushima nuclear disaster often did not want to kill the animals, considered as family members, obeying to the government order since the radioactivity in this area is about fifteen times higher than reference values considered safe and continue to feed them regularly, but is proceed also to check every three months for what could be the first study of the impact on large mammals of prolonged exposure at low levels of radiation within twenty kilometers from where three reactors have melted. In particular the checks were carried out on a farm twelve kilometers away from nuclear power plants and since there being no previous studies it is difficult to value the data collected and assess if the livestock is dying from radiation; then will need to conduct additional monitoring.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 23, 2016 n°: 3258
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Hidden information about the Fukushima disaster

The authorities that manage the Fukushima nuclear plant argue that hide information about the disaster happened five years ago at the station with the merger of three reactors and the resulting huge radioactive leak into the atmosphere and at sea has been a government decision. There were pressures apparently about how to handle the situation by communicating to the public for two months instead of core meltdowns a core damage (a decision defined as regrettable with one important difference about the severity of the event considering possible decisions by other countries to take measures to deal with radioactive pollution), with the sea water contaminated in an uncontrolled manner. Lately has been reported a blackout of the cooling system of the icy wall that contains the leaks of radioactive water but without picking up of the radioactive levels monitored.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 29, 2016 n°: 3185
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Fukushima children fall ill for thyroid cancer

Despite the authorities seek to scale back the size of the health issue apparently the children of Fukushima prefecture get sick of thyroid cancer as a percentage from twenty to fifty times higher than the national average monitored in 2014 and then three years after the nuclear accident. Would be one hundred and sixty teenagers diagnosed with thyroid cancer including suspected cases, showing that the number has been increasing over the time. Some also argue that the Japanese Government would not have sufficient stocks of iodine tablets medicines stored, useful to absorb radiation in the human body, that the radiation levels taken from volunteers near the Fukushima Daiichi would be eight to ten times higher than the official values, then was unprecedented for the oceans the huge of amount of radioactive cesium released in the sea.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 25, 2016 n°: 3155
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Fifth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster

Five years after the nuclear accident in Fukushima despite has been made important progress in setting up the atomic plant the situation remains of security risk both for the environment since it lacks a cover type sarcophagus, both for the population because of radioactive leaks that technicians fail to control; then compounding the picture has recently received the news that the plant operator has admitted he hid for two months the initial meltdown (over fifty percent after three days) in active reactors affected by the tsunami. From data obtained on the disaster some argue that the damage could be much greater than that stated in particular as regards the losses at sea of radioactive coolant, but despite this and protests of the population the authorities have decided to reactivate some reactors in the country to compensate the energy deficit.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 11, 2016 n°: 3092
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Reactivated a nuclear power plant in Japan

Just days away from the 70th anniversary of the release of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki while still speaking of the abolition of all nuclear weapons today will be reactivated in Sendai in Japan a nuclear power plant (in practice the basic technology is similar to that used for a bomb), at least according to the statements of the authorities who are still carrying out safety checks on the reactor number one of the plant that would provide the electricity Friday. The majority of the population from surveys is contrary to these reactivations after the serious accident happened at Fukushima and anti-nuclear activists have also protested yesterday in Kyushu. As regards the safety operations of the Fukushima plant continues to extract from the plant big scrap then there would be a judicial inquiry for negligence regarding the disaster management. - [2016.. the plant operator has admitted that concealed for two months the initial meltdown core].

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 11, 2015 n°: 2912
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Judicial lock restart for two reactors in Japan

After reviewing the complaint of nine citizens judicial authorities in Japan have placed the unresponsiveness to restart two reactors in the town of Takahama since judged inadequate the safety standards and optimistic the predictions of nuclear the plant operators who claimed that no strong earthquake would hit the area in Fukui Prefecture; moreover there are ongoing actions against for other two reactors for which has already been authorized the restart in Kagoshima Prefecture. Meanwhile while the media broadcast footage of a molten core of Fukushima performed by a robot about sixty new nuclear plants are under construction in the world whose twenty-six in China and although it is modern technology (4th generation) is the doubt if the authorities have put in account extreme natural events, whereas not enough automatic systems to stop nuclear reactions.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 15, 2015 n°: 2810
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Japan wants to restart some reactors

The authorities in Japan argue that the country needs Atomic Energy and which is now better prepared to handle these plants, but four years away from serious accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant although progress has been made in securing nuclear plant remain questions on the amount of losses of radioactive water at sea and of radionuclides released into the environment in the absence of a cover, then some argue that nuclear power now costs are high compared to renewable energy without considering the risks and the problem of having to store the waste in safe locations. The incident at the Fukushima plant was not only both a natural and technological disaster, but also social and policy as well which resulted in a change of mentality about how the authorities can require citizens to risk on safety and on their future.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 11, 2015 n°: 2780
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Progress in securing the Fukushima plant

After finding several times reduced levels of radiation and that the water contamination problems were resolved by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant operator, the control international engineers of the atomic energy (the organization is based in Vienna) stated that progress has been made in securing the damaged plant although the overall time, quantifiable in thirty-forty years, determined to complete the expensive operation in practice do not change. The situation remains complex despite having been employed by April a new robot to search for the atomic fuel rods in the reactor core one and has been removed the spent fuel rods from the reactor four. Three days ago a tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean had fear for the atomic station damaged, but the waves generated were not high.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 19, 2015 n°: 2763
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Removed fuel rods at Fukushima

The safety of the nuclear power plant damaged Fukushima Daiichi continuing slowly and the plant manager informed that have removed four hundred tons of spent uranium rods in a reactor that still was left by March 2011, this is the first of four phases in which will also remove the other used fuel rods from reactors, but considered less dangerous, then also will be make the difficult operation (never tried before) to extract the core fused by reactors. It will take decades to reclaim the atomic plant still full of highly radioactive debris and in the meantime some complain about the lack of safety of two nuclear plants in Satsumasendai southwest of Kagoshima Prefecture that authorities intend to restart in a high-risk earthquake zone with several active volcanoes and next to a volcano that fear might erupt.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 10, 2014 n°: 2676
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Japan divided between renewable or atomic energy

While in Japan is setting up a sixty megawatts offshore photovoltaic park, the largest of its kind in the world with thirty modules of two megawatts mounted on floating platforms in the sea, at the same time two atomic plants should be started between the protests of the population that fears disaster after the worst nuclear accident happened Fukushima plant and accused the authorities of trying to stop the so-called "green revolution", but some have claimed that the energy requirements of the country have reached unsustainable levels (for the price of imported fuels compared to economic production). One of the plants to restart, according to the population at risk, is to Satsumasendai near the volcano Sakurajima; then we must consider that it is estimated that tens of thousands of people died of cancer after the accidents at Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011, without considering the damage to the flora and fauna.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 11, 2014 n°: 2624
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An ice wall in Fukushima

The works for the construction of a refrigeration system to freeze the ground beneath the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant should begin in June in order to stem the losses in the soil of highly radioactive water from the cracked reactors with a sort of ice wall, in practice by passing coolant to minus forty degrees Celsius steel tubing to thirty meters underground for a perimeter of about a kilometer and a half around the atomic plant. Some argue that this ice mass could collapse all the land around the power plant thus undermining the functionality of the decommissioning system, but the authorities have given assurances on the procedures adopted. There remain, however, doubts concerning the fact of how not to be proceeded to build a sarcophagus covering as Chernobyl.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 28, 2014 n°: 2532
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Difficult management of the Fukushima plant

Three years after the worst nuclear accident in Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant that continues to release radionuclides in the environment is still spoken of leak of radioactive water into the sea from the reactors cracked that according to the statements of the authorities who run the safety steps of the plant should be stopped within the next year by a kind of wall of ice in the underground, whereas the loss is one of the worst since last summer when about three hundred tons of radioactive water had leaked from one of the large decommissioning containers. In February another incident occurred due to a failure of the staff who had accidentally opened a valve of a tank pouring into the ground about a hundred tons of radioactive water, measured at two hundred and thirty million of becquerels per liter (the safety threshold is ten becquerels) without having reached the sea.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 11, 2014 n°: 2466
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Decommissioning operations in Fukushima

Continue the removal operations with remote-controlled crane of the over a thousand highly radioactive fuel rods from the pools located inside the reactor number four of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant and at the same time the Japanese authorities are seeking an agreement with fishermen's associations respect the release of radioactive water into the sea to facilitate the process of decommmissioning by now saturated, but the fishing communities already struggling with the loss of image due to previous reports of uncontrolled spills from the atomic plant have expressed concern about the operation. Experts claim that the release of small amounts of radioactive water is a widespread practice, then there are skeptics who suggest first other maneuvers, while some voiced doubts on the staff recruited by the plant operator that was recently refinanced.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 07, 2014 n°: 2439
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Controlled radioactive water release at Fukushima

International authorities that for ten days have witnessed the operations of decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have suggested to the operators to carry out a controlled release of radioactive water into the sea, which apparently is a regular operation and perform in other nuclear facilities in the world, since the continuous input in the cooling circuit of the three reactors melted of water which is then stored in large containers makes problematic the subsequent operations of decontamination and re-entering in the circuit. To make this type of intervention must adopt appropriate safety measures to comply with the environmental rules laid down in these cases and take advantage of the lower amount of water in the cooling system to try to achieve a stabilization of the reactors that will always require a long time.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 06, 2013 n°: 2386
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Technology disposal of industrial waste polluting

Continued controversy and doubt on the part of some about the skills on a technological level of the operator of the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima after they have started the removal of fuel rods from nuclear reactor number four not active at the time of the tsunami (as well the five and six), since even if the core is not molten the bars may have been damaged by small pieces of debris thrown by the explosion of hydrogen occurred in the structure, which has been uncovered and subsequently a bit repaired and strengthened, then there could be the danger of an earthquake during the delicate maneuver. The treatment of industrial waste pollution is a high-tech sector in constant evolution that allows, for example in the nuclear sector to regenerate the spent fuel rods or storing the waste with a treatment that makes them less hazardous for the environment.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 22, 2013 n°: 2374
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Storage risky for radioactive water in Fukushima

The information given by the operator of the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima that the recent rains have caused the overflow of radioactive water from some storage tanks, then maybe ended up in the sea, adds to other surveys of radioactive leaks that the authorities are quick to minimize with the statement that "everything is under control", as has happened recently to a loss of a human error as very small but with water with two hundred thousand becquerels per liter of beta-emitting radioactive isotopes including strontium 90 (considering that the limits for this isotope are highly persistent is thirty becquerels per liter). Then have to consider that even the subsea barriers of containment recently loosened by the storms apparently are struggling to prevent radioactive water seeping from under of the nuclear plant ends up in the sea and in this way can contaminate the food chain.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 22, 2013 n°: 2348
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Olympics in Tokyo not far from Fukushima

Celebrations in Tokyo in triumphant tones after the award of the Olympic Games of 2020 in the capital of a Japan in economic recovery unlike the competing countries struggling with various problems, but some point out that the central severely damaged of Fukushima (in the middle of endless controversy) is two hundred and thirty kilometers far that as regard radiation is not so far considering that there isn't still a sarcophagus covering the reactor and the wind can carry the radionuclides. Meanwhile, South Korea which already had imposed a limit on imports of fish, has banned the import from eight prefectures including Fukushima check out the catch from other areas even if arrive from Japan assurances on safety of their food, but the recent dumping of radioactive water into the sea have led some to claim that losses are structural.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 09, 2013 n°: 2310
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Allocated funds for Fukushima nuclear power plant

Following the decision of the Japanese government to allocate funding for emergency management in the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima, some have suggested that they are also taken major initiatives with regard to the proper functioning of the system that provides to decontaminate water cooling of the reactors, since for example the large containers have been assembled in haste with an economic technology with strips of steel plates placed side by side that can hardly withstand long times of decommissioning provided. Recently one of these containers were spilled about three hundred tons of radioactive water that reached the sea, then the cracking a connecting pipe was repaired with simple adhesive tape of plastic type, without considering that the staff is forced to continuous checks for repair any leaks.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 04, 2013 n°: 2306
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Radiation from Fukushima to monitor

Still problems with the decommissioning of the damaged plant in Fukushima since the large containers of water to cool the reactors in some cases show signs of leveling off and the plant operator has communicated a level of radiation eighteen times higher than that reported recently by instruments that apparently were able to measure up to a maximum of one hundred millisieverts per hour, in a difficult situation to monitor where technicians exposed to high levels of radiation fail to detect the continuous loss that filter in the ground and then into the sea. The loss could have been caused by cracking of the connecting pipes between two of about three hundred and fifty containers constructed with cheap materials and made in a hurry near the nuclear power plant to handle the emergency with a temporay assembling and then with little seal to the solicitations.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 02, 2013 n°: 2304
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Serious accident in Fukushima for radioactive leaks

It would be of three level on a scale of seven according to the International scales of measurements the severity of the accident on the circuit of decommissioning for cooling the reactors damaged with loss of three hundred tons of cooling water highly radioactive in the soil and then sorted in the sea, so that the authorities in a meeting with the plant operator should establish measures of restriction for fishing. From time occurred losses of radioactive water into the sea that the technicians did not know how dab, with proposals for subsoil drainage appropriate pipes or with containment walls by freezing the soil, then the water had recently formed a radioactive puddle very close to a tank which presented the losses that has been pumped into another tank, in a series of radioactive leaks caused by the meltdowns of three reactors hardly documented with clarity (..international aid required).

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 21, 2013 n°: 2294
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Report of the released radiation levels in Fukushima

The complaints about the lack of transparency of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant operator about the levels of radiation released into the environment have also led to the reporting of data on the quantities of highly radioactive material ended up in the sea from losses in the reactors, quantifiable from twenty to forty trillion becquerels starting from the date of the nuclear incident in March of 2011, and in particular related to tritium. Are being evaluated with testing the levels of carcinogen strontium released into the Pacific Ocean, while the same operator has confirmed that the radioactive water in the basement has passed a containment barrier specially built for protection and ended up in the sea, without considering that difficulties continue to manage large amounts of water that are pumped every day to feed the process of decommissioning which would have reached the limits of use.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 07, 2013 n°: 2283
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Still leaks from the Fukushima plant

The admission a few days ago from the same operator of the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima that had leaked into the sea of radioactive water coming from the tanks used in the process of decommissioning of nuclear power [20/08 about three hundred tons] has provoked criticism of public opinion, even if the losses were denounced by independent researchers for a long time they had done analysis on fish caught by local fishermen. There are many unanswered questions such as why the central bait steam intermittently or how much radioactive water ends up in the sea from the leak in the basement of reactors and how they were carried out repairs flaws, how long will maintain the seal (while it is now clear that the large containers for the decommissioning will be replaced), then if the operator is able to handle the emergency, which take a long time and considerable financial resources, effectively.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 02, 2013 n°: 2279
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Last goodbyes to the director of Fukushima plant

There have been in part favorable opinions on the work of Yoshida, director of the Fukushima nuclear plant at the time of the tragic nuclear accident in March of 2011 and who died at the age of fifty-eight years for esophagus cancer, in fact his decision to cool the reactors with sea water has probably prevented more serious damage to the environment (and to the population health) even if the plant operators did not want this operation to be carried out since it would compromise the functionality of the reactors. The Japanese authorities have stated that the tumor was not due to radiation, although by now there are many doubts about the real health situation of the staff who worked in difficult conditions in the early stages of an emergency, while still trying to remedy the uncontrolled leakage of the decommissioning process that produces four hundred tons of radioactive water per day.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 10, 2013 n°: 2259
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Survey about shellfish in the Fukushima area

A study carried out for four months on the living status of shellfish in forty-three places by the Chiba prefecture of Iwate in Japan would have highlighted the disappearance of the shellfish Thais Clavigera in a coastal area of about thirty kilometers near damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant, then also the Cellana grata, another species of shellfish, was found a decline and high doses of radioactive material in their bodies. The researchers verified that the Thais Clavigera, a kind of shell quite common on the coast of Japan, has been extinguished by eight of the ten monitored places within twenty km radius zone alert established due to severe nuclear accident in March 2011. The cause is almost certainly connected to the radiation and not to the tsunami since molluscs are in good health in areas affected by the large waves generated by the tsunami. - [05/06] Reported a new leak of radioactive water from the plant.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 03, 2013 n°: 2175
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Problems with an electrical panel on Fukushima

Due to the failure of a switchboard control panel in the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant the cooling pools that contain the atomic fuel rods to cool remained without electricity (from Monday morning), but engineers have advised that temperatures monitored are well below danger levels and there would be no problem for a few days while searching for the cause of the fault. - [21/03 the switchboard maybe damaged by a rat has been restored]. In case are unable to solve the problem will proceed with a backup system of water injection to maintain the temperatures within the sixty five degrees Celsius and for the moment the temperature of the warmer pool is approximately thirty degrees. From the technological point of view usually water is used natural also to cool the reactors, since it has excellent characteristics as a moderator, but at the same time the defect of a high capacity to absorb neutrons.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 20, 2013 n°: 2163
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Still uncertain situation at Fukushima

Two years after the tsunami that devastated Japan, causing a serious accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and nearly nineteen thousand victims, the authorities announced after a minute's silence in memory of the incident that the radiation level is under control, but people yesterday protested against nuclear power plant damaged and the actual situation is not clear, since despite the work carried out by taking a structure removes debris the reactor number three is still in poor condition without any coverage to protect the area has been taken. The exclusion zone shows a landscape of eerie silence and everything seems to stand still waiting for activities to start, but it will take decades to remove the fuel rods from the reactors and to build the sarcophagus containment while the radiation continue to propagate undisturbed.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 11, 2013 n°: 2155
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Risk of thyroid cancer monitored in Fukushima

Individuals exposed in the most contaminated nuclear plant in Fukushima show an increased risk of cancer and in particular women and children would have a seventy percent more likely to develop thyroid cancer, since this organ is the most exposed to radioactive iodine, especially in children in which radioactive isotopes tend to concentrate in the thyroid, but the risk as a whole is quite low and these cases are not so frequent (considering that it takes about three years to develop a thyroid cancer). In the most contaminated area for international organizations there would also be a seven percent higher relative risk of leukemia in young males exposed and six of breast cancer for females, then four other cancers in girls, but in the rest of Japan the percentage increased risk would be negligible. - [A fish with high level of radiation has been caught in a port near the Fukushima plant].

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 01, 2013 n°: 2147
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Wall collapses at Chernobyl without damage

Due to the weight of the snow would collapse part of a wall and roof of the containment of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, without anyone being injured, in addition the cement sarcophagus would not have been damaged and therefore were not detected increases of radiation levels in the nuclear power plant and within thirty kilometers of the so-called exclusion zone. A French company that is building a new thirty thousand tons containing sarcophagus was sent away as a precaution the eighty experts. To perform maintenance operations in areas subject to the action of radiation and in critical condition should use automated technologies and also in the central damaged of Fukushima have been developed of the kind of armored robot equipped with arms able to lift the weights, but remains quite poor handling.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 14, 2013 n°: 2134
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Children with signs of abnormality due to Fukushima

Following a check-up to identify some evidence of thyroid cancer in children who were exposed to radiation after the Fukushima disaster, which occurred in March of last year, it would have been some signs of abnormality found in forty percent of cases out of one hundred thousand children tested, bringing to mind the conditions of exposure of the population in the accident at Chernobyl in 1986 on the city of Pripyat inhabited by forty-seven thousand people of which seventeen thousand children. The Chernobyl experience to deal with the radioactive contamination as a result of radioactive isotopes of iodine 131 and cesium 134-137 could also be useful in the case of Fukushima, since it was found that high doses of ionizing radiation can destroy marrow stem cells, then the cells of the gastrointestinal tract and those cardiovascular, also with problems to the central nervous system.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 01, 2012 n°: 2070
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Tests of nuclear power plants considered at risk

Using sound pulses with high intensity conveyed in sea California coastal authorities would be test the level of safety of a nuclear power plant on the coast, in fact the sensors placed on the surface of the sea should allow recording of the echo in order to draw a three-dimensional map with the geological conformation of the faults in anticipation of possible earthquake and subsequent tsunami, but environmentalists complain that these trials with loud sounds may cause harm or discomfort to the most sensitive marine mammals. Another type of problem always about the safety of a nuclear power plant is being discussed in Japan, since the Oi plant resuming operations after the Fukushima disaster due to power shortages in the country apparently was built just above an terrestrial active fault and therefore have a high risk for the reactors in case of earthquake.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 15, 2012 n°: 2056
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Construction of a new nuclear power plant in Japan

New regulations regarding nuclear power plants in Japan require that older plants than forty years should be abandoned and those that were under construction and meeting particular criteria of safety can be completed, and then to Oma (a city six hundred and fifty kilometers north of Tokyo) have resumed the construction of a nuclear reactor that had stalled since the period corresponding to the Fukushima disaster. The authorities said that the plant under construction has yet to adopt all safety requirements before can be put into operation, however by 2040 all power should be off, in accordance with the demands of public opinion. Should be noted that in France after the announcement of the shut down of the "old" central of Fessenheim control over other reactors in the country would have highlighted a number of shortcomings in security systems.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 02, 2012 n°: 2017
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New reactors in Russia and a movie for Fukushima

A technology for the design of fast reactors considered "barely controllable" is being used in Russia in the construction of new nuclear power plants that are fuelled by plutonium derived from the disposal of old devices, but the cooling system that uses a kind of liquid metal raises questions about security, since it catches fire if it is contact with the air. In addition to nuclear weapons that can be disposed of and used in fast reactors and breeder, there are those with isotope Pu-239 which apparently are not suitable for civil and remains the problem of their storage stable to allow a minimum of security in the time. Regarding Fukushima to a year and a half after the disaster at the nuclear power, the citizens have not yet found a solution to many problems due to radiation, while in a movie some trying to reconstruct the tragic event.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 11, 2012 n°: 1998
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Minor accident at French nuclear plant

There would have been no radioactive leak or fire in the "old" nuclear power plant in Fessenheim in eastern France and burns to the hands of two maintenance workers of the plants was caused, according to the declarations of the authorities on nuclear safety, spill of vapors of hydrogen peroxide; but the memory of Fukushima has caused complaints about the type of nuclear power plant (the oldest in France) considered obsolete and located on the border with Germany and Switzerland. The concern about the safety of the operation of the reactors had been reported for some time, especially in the event of an earthquake of a certain magnitude or extreme weather events. France uses nuclear energy than any other country with a rate of about seventy-five percent that arise from the splitting of the atom and there are many proposals for the transition to more sustainable energy for the environment and less dangerous.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 06, 2012 n°: 1994
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Conflicting reports on Chernobyl and Fukushima

Following the authorities declarations that the exclusion zone around Chernobyl of thirty kilometers would now be safe and suitable for human habitation and farming, even if with the prohibition on food crops, some indicate that the radiation in the area would still quite high and although it plans to build a new sarcophagus to protect the reactor exploded in 1986, which should be completed in 2015, still remain very highly the radioactive material that can not be removed and also around the center are tons of particles that have been projected at the time the explosion of the reactor. Regarding Fukushima after the "circumstances a bit strange" some time ago that the fish caught near the plant was put on sale (because are considered safe) a study on butterflies would indicate, however, clear genetic mutations.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 17, 2012 n°: 1977
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Little sense of responsibility for Fukushima

A study conducted in Japan to understand what were the causes that have caused the disaster at Fukushima showed that the plant was in a vulnerable condition and unable to guarantee safety in case of earthquake or tsunami, and although the authorities had had various opportunities to take appropriate measures would deliberately postponed any decision to avoid serious damage to the nuclear power plant, and so it was a manmade disaster caused from the man and the lack of coordination in the organization of emergency and not caused by the tsunami. A few days ago had been reported yet another difficulty in cooling the fuel tank containing spent nuclear in the four reactor to cause of an inconvenient, but despite the protests of the people the atomic plant of Ohi will be partially reactivated to prevent electrical blackouts during the summer months.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 06, 2012 n°: 1940
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More precise earthquakes warning systems

To give the alarm and emergency in time to warn the population in case of earthquakes and tsunamis for the researchers are not enough data from seismometers, since for more than seven magnitudes the accuracy of these instruments would be less accurate, and in the case of the tsunami that struck in March 2011 Japan the data on the strong earthquake in the sea and the consequent high tsunami wave had been underestimated. From the data obtained by good network of seismographs Japanese was took up a magnitude of eight on the scale Richther for about two minutes, which definitely produces a large tsunami, but not as disastrous as it has also caused the worst nuclear accident in central Fukushima evaluated after shock also crossing the GPS data of a magnitude of nine; so for the researchers would be required more accurate detection systems also in preventive function.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 20, 2012 n°: 1875
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Mexico relies on nuclear power despite Fukushima

A clear interest in the development of nuclear technology in Mexico dates back to 1956 with the establishment of a special commission for the exploitation of atomic energy, and despite the serious accident of Fukushima (recently there was also a loss of coolant at low radioactivity, this time at the village of Tokay) authorities appear intent to increase a few beyond the actual five percent the share of electricity from nuclear power plants in addition to improving the service management in the distribution grid to the population. In February 2007 the Mexico have signed an agreement to modify or install new turbines and generators in the plant at Laguna Verde, with significant technological improvements; another country interested in increasing the number of nuclear power seems is the India and aims to leverage its deposits of a "poor" type of nuclear fuel work it with complex procedures.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 21, 2012 n°: 1850
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Anniversary of the Fukushima disaster

At one year after the tsunami that hit Japan resulting from nineteen thousand dead and missing final remembers the scope of an awesome natural event that at least with regard to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has caused a serious nuclear accident almost comparable to that Chernobyl, albeit with considerable differences as regards the type and amount of radiation released into the environment due to the different type of reactor design, that in the case of Fukushima were obsolete but at least equipped with a holding vessel which allowed to limit a little the damages. In any case the area hit by radiations (which remains high) will remain contaminated for decades, with consequences not only on population but on the whole environment and the natural food chain, so we should continue to monitor the food over long distances of time.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 11, 2012 n°: 1841
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An instructive lesson from the Fukushima disaster

The number of mistakes made in the emergency management after the tsunami that swept away nearly an year ago the Japan and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could provide according to the researchers an instructive lesson to improve the safety of other nuclear plants, especially in coastal areas that could suffer the same kind of damages in case of earthquakes and tsunamis, so for example being able to quickly restore the electricity, or even find fuel for transportation is very difficult without planning ahead. The supply of electricity and fuel assumes an accident that they are sheltered a whole series of structures (electricity pylons, bridges, roads..), then requires an organization able to perform the repairs; but in the case of Fukushima the structure was built almost at sea level, the emergency generators were not raised and the "plans" was careful to save money.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 09, 2012 n°: 1839
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Reclamations anti radiation in Japan

Groups of workers they would be proceeding to reclaim the city of Itate in Japan while some argue that it would be better to rebuild in another place not contaminated and then with all those high-pressure wash is likely to channel only particles of radioactive cesium in the local river, then there are other places where they were found very high levels of radiation at times due to the use of building materials obtained from quarries near the damaged plant of Fukushima Daiichi and citizens need to be made at least one control with Geiger counters. The authorities in the country would be to turn on those reactors that have undergone stress tests, but the population to nearly a year after the nuclear accident in Fukushima is still concerned about food security and it seems that some typical Japanese habits are a few changed also for cause of the psychological consequences of the disaster.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 03, 2012 n°: 1834
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Radioactivity into the sea away from Fukushima

Samples containing radioactive cesium-137 were taken in the Pacific Ocean for more than six hundred kilometers from the nuclear plant of Fukushima Daiichi, but the levels of radioactivity would be quite low, non-hazardous to health and should not constitute any danger of contamination to the chain food even if the data collected would do well to note the difference compared to the condition that had before the Japanese nuclear disaster. Despite the radiocaesium is considered harmful because of the long half-life of radioactive charge (about thirty years), the researchers point out that the sea has a great capacity to dilute pollutants that are dispersed by the currents slowly with time. Not very clear, the situation regarding the safety of reactors with damaged Fukushima and some report that there have been increases in core temperature monitored - [28/02 a false alarm].

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 22, 2012 n°: 1825
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A probe to inspect the reactors in Fukushima

A kind of endoscope was used to monitor the reactor number two by technicians who are proceeding with measures to secure the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi, and although it was not possible to film the water level it seems that temperatures in core are actually less than the boiling point and then the nuclear fuel rods should not return to heat up (but some considered premature the declaration of the so-called cold shutdown of the entire plant). The radiation monitor in the other reactors would still be too high for to use the probe and obtained the video would suffer too much distortion, moreover the public send away from the damaged plant (more than eighty thousand) it seems that it is not yet allowed to return to their homes and would not change the set of twenty km exclusion zone with discomfort for all activities.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 21, 2012 n°: 1797
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Few prevention in Fukushima

A report describing the measures taken to deal with the Fukushima nuclear disaster (according to some premature the disclosure of cold shutdown) showed that the technicians who worked the plant had not been informed of the whole picture of the situation and previously a simulation calculations performed on computers of any tsunami that had hit the plant had shown that the works were necessary for the prevention and elevation of the wall of protection. The evacuation order for the citizens seem to be limited to a generic hurry up and run away with no information of where to take shelter and exposing people to radioactive fallout, which affected areas that were identified in the simulations, while the staff who worked in the atomic plant believed that the cooling systems of reactors one and three were working while they were out of order.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 29, 2011 n°: 1776
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Cold shut down.. for the plant of Fukushima

The Japanese authorities have stated that the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi have reached a state of "cold shut down", meaning that temperatures in the reactors are less than one hundred degrees, allowing in this way to proceed now with the decommissioning of contaminated facilities (and construction of appropriate coverage) that will take decades and then for over forty years will have to wait for the real safety of the decommissioning of the severely damaged plant by the tsunami in eleven March that caused twenty thousand victims. The radiation released into the environment would now be only a fraction of their peaks in the emergency phase, but this should not suggest that the situation is resolved since the half-life of radioactive airborne particles by wind and discharged in sea water used to cool the cores partially melted is very long for the food chain.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 17, 2011 n°: 1765
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Loss of radioactive water into the sea to Fukushima

The technicians who work to secure the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Dai-iki reported that about three hundred gallons of radioactive water would spill into the sea from a hole opened in a plant for the decontamination of water, but the loophole would be closed with sandbags placed on a duct damaged that caused the loss of a basin to the sea as soon as a few days ago pointed to the measurements of the radioactivity values higher than safety limits set, two hundred and seventy times for the cesium isotope with mass number 134 which has a half life of about two years of radiation, and three hundred twenty-two times for the isotope cesium 137 with a half-life of about thirty years and therefore harmful to the environment and food chain. Decontamination facilities are in place to "clean up" the water following the partial merger in the cores of the atomic plants. - [07-12] There would also be a reminder of four hundred thousand packs of a baby food formula for children a little contaminated from radiocesium.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 06, 2011 n°: 1755
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Rice with radiocaesium in Fukushima Prefecture

By examining a batch of rice ready for the distribution, even if not yet sold, from a farm about sixty kilometers from the damaged nuclear plant Fukushima Daiichi would be found a sample of rice with radiocaesium above the limits of safety and so would be prohibited marketing and sale of rice in the Fukushima Prefecture. The authorities try to prevent contaminated products from rural areas may enter in the food chain, but monitor all levels of radioactivity after the wind and rains spread radioactive particles in the eastern part of Japan is fairly complex operation. Proceed to various check out in the city of Tokyo to reassure the people, since there have been several previous alerts for the contamination of products (green tea, meat, mushrooms), but this is the first time that triggered in the country a ban on the sale. - [29/11] A television showman that had drank and eat aliments from the Fukushima area seems is falled ill of leucaemias.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 18, 2011 n°: 1740
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A tungsten vest for the Fukushima technicians

To safeguard the health of the technicians working at the nuclear safety measures still out of control from the eleven March, a Japanese company that produces robotic exoskeletons suitable for assisted walking type would put up a heavy tungsten radiation protection as a motorized order to accommodate the operator's movements through sensors. The vest designed so as not to alert the operator of about sixty pounds weight may be a barrier between the body and the radioactive material more than stop the action of radiation, but can still be a contribution to avoid damage to the health of the working on nuclear power plants damaged like that in Fukushima Daiichi. The situation from the point of view of nuclear plant safety is not very clear after the declaration of the presence of radioactive xenon gas in the reactor number two because his presence was unexpected.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 11, 2011 n°: 1734
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Stress tests for the international nuclear safety

A new international nuclear safety of power plants would be developed to avoid a repeat of serious accidents such as occurred in Fukushima, in order to establish a kind of standard compliance program that includes several steps to ensure even through stress tests the safety of nuclear plants. The situation of the reactors of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima-Daiichi is not clear with contradictory statements regarding the "cold" (about a hundred degrees or less) shutdown procedure of the plant, as some claim by examining the reactions of the nuclear fuel partially melted in the reactor core number two that would still active, but technically it should be impossible at temperatures much lower than those of exercise, even if the times stated for the safety complete measures are not exactly reassuring.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 03, 2011 n°: 1727
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Unchanged situation at Fukushima

The nuclear power plant out of control at Fukushima Dai-iki for the tsunami that has damaged the March 11 continues to worry the control atomic energy authorities that in recent days have sent technicians to monitor the situation and verify that the decontamination operations to carry out regular, and for weeks in Japan seems to be discussed on the level of contamination of certain foods and particularly the rice. Rice samples contaminated in the city of Nihonmatsu to fifty-five kilometers from Fukushima had attracted media attention with countries that would suspend the import of certain food from Japan. The overall situation seems unchanged after the announcement of the installation of new devices for decontaminating water and the proposed construction of a retaining wall into the sea to prevent the spill of radioactive water from the plant.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 11, 2011 n°: 1707
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Monitored the levels of radiation on children in Japan

In elementary schools that are affected by the serious nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the disastrous tsunami that hit the coasts in the eleventh March in Japan, the school staff monitors the daily radiation data that some areas would be rather high, given that the limits for exposure of the children had been lowered by the authorities under one millisieverts per year because the young body is more sensitive to radiations. The data regarding the amount of radiation released into the damaged reactor and still out of control six months after the merger of a core of the "old" plant (and partial fusion of two other reactors) gave high levels of radiocaesium, but the limit of the amount exposure throughout the country had already been increased to twenty millisieverts per year that would be equivalent to the limit established for workers in nuclear power plants in some countries.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 10, 2011 n°: 1681
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Icebergs created by the 11 March tsunami in Japan

The waves generated by the tsunami that struck in March of eleven and devastated Japan have crossed the Pacific Ocean to reach the West Antarctic ice sheet, causing the rupture of the pack and the separation of large icebergs to a phenomenon of repeated bending of the ice operated by waves not very high (about of thirty centimeters), but that caused fractures in the ice. As regard the situation of the out of control nuclear plant in Fukushima Daiichi few days ago the last wave of radiation that emanates from the damaged reactor indicated a peak at full scale for the instruments more than ten Sieverts per hour and measured at the base of a ventilation stack positioned between two reactors. Such high levels of radiation are considered lethal to man even with an exposition of few seconds and then putting at risk the health of staff who are responsible for reactor safety.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 11, 2011 n°: 1655
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Demonstrations in Japan against nuclear weapons

During the approach of the anniversary of the date of air raid with atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima on 06/08/1945 and the second on Nagasaki three days later, a group of about seventeen hundred protesters from the region of Fukushima asked remediation work to restore to the population of the areas contaminated by radiation, in addition, the organization that is committed "for the abolition of atomic and hydrogen bombs" has also demonstrated against nuclear power plants to produce electricity. The authorities are monitoring the food security of radioactive contamination in recent days have decided to ban the shipment of foods derived from processing of cattle from northeast of the Miyagi prefecture after checking levels of radiocaesium in some head of cattle exceed the recommended permissible levels while to Fukushima a ban had already been told to farmers.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 01, 2011 n°: 1646
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Contaminated food in Fukushima prefecture

The Japanese authorities have decided to establish a set of controls on foods derived from animals in all the forty-seven prefectures of the country after a lot of meat contaminated with radiocaesium from the Fukushima prefecture has entered the distribution chain, probably due to radioactive straw that farmers have continued to give to the cows although there was a ban already from March to use the forage stored outdoors (advise that some farmers would not have seen). The source of contamination with radioactive cesium in quantities not very clear was caused by the meltdowns of three reactors in the early stages of emergency after the tsunami of eleven in March that made unusable the cooling systems of nuclear power and it is estimated that at least five hundred cattle have been processed and shipped to distribution after eating contaminated straw.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 20, 2011 n°: 1636
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It will take decades to decontaminate Fukushima

The Japanese authorities have said that in order to make safe the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi out of control will take between three to ten years and even decades to be able to resolve permanently the disastrously incident happened the 11/03, and proposed action plans on the damaged reactor of 2021 to begin talking to remove the nuclear fuel melted. For the disposal of the entire system will take several decades before the technicians can begin work on the structures evidently highly radioactive, even if still think to implement a contingency plan based on short-term measures taken to deal with radiation in other nuclear disasters cases. To note also that radiocaesium were found in amounts six times the legal limit in the beef (immediately removed from the market) of some cows from the city of Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 11, 2011 n°: 1628
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Series of stress tests on Japanese nuclear plant

The Japanese authorities have declared that take into consideration the proposals of the local population in addition to procedures already adopted in Europe to develop the plan of stress tests on the fifty-four reactors nuclear power plants that provide approximately the thirty percent of the energy consumed in the country and if they were shut down for maintenance can cause energy shortages hard to fill. The nuclear crisis management and the reconstruction after the devastating tsunami that claimed over twenty-two thousand victims (?) has been greatly criticized causing resignations and bitter controversy, so much so that the safety of the plant in Fukushima Daiichi seems to find endless trouble with leakage of radioactive liquid in the soil after the attempting of "technology" type to try to establish a cooling circuit decontaminating the water present in the envelopes of the reactors.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 07, 2011 n°: 1625
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Ventilators instead of air conditioners in Japan

For to limit the energy consumption of the Japanese population, the authorities have recommended to adopt a series of measures aimed at saving and also planning to distribute the electrical power per hour depending on the needs of production facilities, not to mention that the government must give up elevators and rooms too cooled by air conditioners. Citizens as well as using ventilators and fans should give up the escalators and air conditioning systems in the subway; also need to save on all electrical equipment in order to achieve a cut of about a ten percent of the total energy consumption. As regard the nuclear power plant in Fukushima out of control still struggle to avoid dumping in the sea radioactive water inside the reactors after the suspension of the decontamination system of the radiocaesium used lately.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 20, 2011 n°: 1610
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Saving energy consumption in Japan and technology

At a distance in time of three months from the devastating tsunami that devastated Japan the situation is rather complex with the people involved in reconstruction having to deal in the case of Fukushima with issues related to the radiations, and then an economy in trouble that is also influenced by shortage of electricity due to the stop of some nuclear power stations. The authorities have called for a reduction of at least a fifteen percent of energy consumption that could increase during the summer for cause of the air conditioners and other equipment, but in this case, an aid could arrive in the coming months from the production of a new type of solar cell which uses strips of aluminum furniture that automatic focus the sunlight on high-performance tubes solar cells, while allowing to use less expensive silicon and heat the water with the excess of heat.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 11, 2011 n°: 1603
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Discussions about the atomic energy

After Germany's decision to a gradual decommissioning of nuclear installations, some as soon as possible for to not be able to overcome the so-called stress tests, in other countries is starting a discussion about the opportunity to continue to building nuclear power stations and in the meantime in Japan are still problems with the out of control Fukushima plant, in fact, an oil trace would be leaking into the sea from the reactor number five, in which authorities claim was made from some time the "cold shut down", but a few days ago engineers had verified that the cooling pumps had stopped, causing a rise in various temperatures. The verification of the level of radiation absorbed by two technicians involved in safety setting up of the nuclear plant were recorded values over the limit, forcing the authorities to increase the maximum exposure in this case from 100 to 250 milliSieverts for cause of the emergency.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 01, 2011 n°: 1594
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Nuclear power plants controlled

While in Europe are to test nuclear plants to verify the safety in case of accident or other circumstances that may weaken the resistance of the reactor in a critical condition in the technical report that Japan will seek to meet the above program for the so-called cold shutdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant in six to nine months' time. The situation is always more complex and the nuclear fuel rods in the cores of the different reactors would be almost completely fused, but the temperature in the containment vessels would not be critical and the melted bars immersed in water, then the various temperature and pressure data should not worse. Less favorable than could be the security issue from the perspective of the radiation released in the environment, since the casings of the reactors would be cracked also if the engineers continuously monitor the data.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 25, 2011 n°: 1588
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Forecasting systems for earthquakes

Examining data on the atmosphere above the epicenter of the tsunami that struck Japan the 11/03, the researchers would have noticed that in this period varied the concentration of electrons in the ionosphere, probably due to release of radon gas from the undersea fault in the days before the strong earthquake, and this finding led to the correlation with the data of other strong magnitude earthquakes in order to develop a reliable forecasting system. At other times in the past observation of the release of radon gas was allowed to monitor geological movements (with swinging results) and now with the observation of infrared radiation could be an increased heat in the ionosphere following the action of the radon gas. According to some also the observation of micro-variations of position of the Earth's crust by satellite, in many cases allow the prediction of earthquakes.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 19, 2011 n°: 1583
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Plans to deal with radiation in Japan

The Japanese authorities are trying to manage the plant in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power out of control with measures to contain the radiation and prevent the water from the base of the first reactor at the nuclear station will infiltrate into the ground or contaminate the ocean, since the core would be almost completely melted and technicians think of using water leakage from the containment vessel to establish a cooling cycle that allow by January to the so-called cold shutdown. The meltdown of the reactor would begin in the first few hours after the tsunami that hit the "old" central not equipped with an efficient ventilation system to lower the reactor pressure vessel, meanwhile, seems to continue the plans for the evacuation of citizens (more than eighty thousand have already abandon their homes), for example from the cities of Iitate and Kawamata about thirty miles from the nuclear power plant.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 18, 2011 n°: 1582
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Found radioactive waste in Japan incinerators

Ash contaminated with highly radioactive substances over one hundred and seventy thousand becquerels per kilogram were found in an incineration plant east of Tokyo some time ago, and also in incinerators or other plants for water treatment residue may speak with radioactive cesium to one hundred and forty thousand Bq/kg. The news about the various contaminants have been reported only recently and apparently the ashes of the incineration plants as well as generally end up in the atmosphere is recycled for use in construction materials and this raises some questions in terms of safety and health because there could be a fallout on the food. Radionuclides of cesium for example are very mobile and have a decay time of about thirty years and can contaminate the food chain without proper food inspections.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 14, 2011 n°: 1579
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Afterthought on nuclear safety in Japan

Two months after the serious accident at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima authorities (who have given up salary) have stated that there may have been some underestimation regarding nuclear safety and also the development program for the electricity use should in future a greater share of renewable energy, while the atomic plant of Hamaoka considered insecure has been closed. Meanwhile there have been some criticisms about how the emergency was handled after the devastating tsunami that claimed more than twenty-seven thousand victims and the situation regarding the safety of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is not very clear after that has been established an exclusion zone to protect the health of the population. As regard for the waste of the various nuclear power plants seems to be buried deep in Mongolia.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 11, 2011 n°: 1576
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A model of the atom based on quantum theory

The conception of the atom of planetary type of E. Rutherford and based on classical mechanics still had some uncertainty and doubts, especially after the discovery in 1900 by Max Planck (Kiel 1858-1947 Göttingen) that between matter and radiation the energy would be exchanged in a quantity proportional to the frequency of the radiation and the electron rotates around the nucleus not like a planet around the sun, but on the basis of dynamical states (quantum states or discrete not continuous, based also on wave theory). Planck was a scientist who contributed in a decisive way to discover the structure of the atom so as to produce a kind of revolution in modern physics, and subsequent studies were strongly influenced by these theories, but at the same time it appeared the problem of how the energy produced from the atom was used and the numerous warnings to the peace of Planck remained practically unheard.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 23, 2011 n°: 1562
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Controls on food in Japan

Some control tests on maternal milk have found traces of radioactive iodine in four cases close to Tokyo and then the authorities have decided to carry out further analysis on the food though it seems there aren't particular problems for the health of the population and also the strong earthquakes that shake Japan (the last of magnitude 6.1 in Chiba prefecture) did not cause damages. The radiations that emanates from the damaged nuclear power plant with variable levels of intensity, since the atomic plant would not be stable, forcing them to constant interruptions of operations provided to restore the cooling of reactors, in addition, also approximately sixty families who still live in the evacuation area must leave their homes, but the less favorable position in terms of radiations would be for some opinions into the sea in front of the plant.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 22, 2011 n°: 1561
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Evacuation area targeted in Japan

Due to the weather and the wind that carries the radioactive particles at a distance in a particular direction by the nuclear power plant damaged the Japanese authorities seem to be considering a targeted evacuation plan and therefore regardless of radius of twenty kilometers that in the meantime has become exclusion zone due to the accumulation of material that emits radiations. The population of the houses in rural areas often asked to leave their homes at times refuses to reach the evacuation centers and assistance, but the measures taken to protect the health of citizens would leave people enough time to organize. Operations to secure the plant continue to transfer water from the basement to radioactive storage tanks and decontamination equipment so can reuse for cooling the reactors.

e-mail: info@salutary.eu
Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 21, 2011 n°: 1560
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Suffering environment

Have been allocated funds for the construction of a new sarcophagus to contain the radiation at Chernobyl atomic twenty-five years after the disaster of 26/04/1986 still due on the population of health outcomes, while a year after the accident to a oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the spill of nearly eight hundred million litres of crude oil is still studying the long-term consequences on the ecosystem. The environment is suffering due to severe accidents (as currently happen in Japan) and climate change which have significant socio-economic consequences and impede the orderly development because of lower income and livelihood, especially for poor areas with high population density, while industrialized countries appear to have significantly decreased their emissions.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 20, 2011 n°: 1559
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Radiation unhealthy even for robots

The radiation measured by the robots within the structures of the Fukushima nuclear plant would be enough highin about ten to over fifty milliSieverts per hour, and therefore dangerous for the technicians who work to secure the damaged nuclear power plant, but it seems circuits that robots can not operate if they crossed a certain threshold quantity of ionizing particles. To measure radiation using various scales depending on the type of use and quantities, such as Becquerel for with regard to nuclear "accidents" and those that may be harmful to the cells of organisms was chosen Sievert and sub-Sievert. Making an X-ray exposes the body to a one milliSieverts and a scan until up to twenty milliSieverts (also depending on the equipment used), and some tips to avoid making too many Tac and scans.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 19, 2011 n°: 1558
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Plan to reduce the radioactivity in Japan

The Japanese authorities have submitted a plan in stages to reduce the radioactivity and secure the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, which provides in six to nine months even to a cold shutdown of the reactors, the removal of fuel rods and the position of special cloth on the plants to contain the radiation and then construct a concrete sarcophagus on each damaged reactor. For some citizens evacuated from contaminated areas will be allowed to return to their homes thanks to measures to contain radiation in the air and on land and in the sea near the center will try to absorb for example the radioactive cesium. The population that has repeatedly demonstrated against nuclear facilities in the complex is quite skeptical about the authorities' statements and how the emergency was handled (given also the lack of reliable information).

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 18, 2011 n°: 1557
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Ionizing particles and Geiger counter

One of the most popular tools for measuring ionizing radiation and particles is the scintillating Geiger-Müller counter using a metal cylinder containing a rarefied gas and a wire stretched close so then to establish a potential difference near the limit necessary to establish a discharge, so just have an ionizing particle strikes the tool to charge the spring discharge, which will be appropriately amplified and counted acoustically and visually. Hans Geiger (1882 - 1945) German physician assistant of Rutherford in Cambridge was one of the researchers who studied the trajectory and the position of alpha particles in the Cavendish laboratory, using the thin metal layers to see the difference in penetration of radiation and thus allowing later to E. Rutherford to develop in 1911 the atomic model of planetary type.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 16, 2011 n°: 1556
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Early research on radioactivity

One of the first scientists who do researches on the phenomenon of radioactivity, in those days just discovered, was Ernest Rutherford (Nelson 1871 - 1937 Cambridge) who managed to discover that the process was mainly caused by the enactment of radioactive particles from ionizing atoms that have this type of feature, and then each ionization process results in the transformation of the atom. Studies by Rutherford and his collaborators in the famous Cavendish Laboratory came to find that the structure of the atom should be of global and then with a core in a compact space of positive charge and gravitated around long-distance (in relationship with the dimensions) electrons of negative charge, then practice in using the method of "alchemical" type devised by Marie Sklodowska Curie was able to obtain the transformation of the matter by splitting atoms.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 15, 2011 n°: 1555
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Searching for other obsolete plants as Fukushima

After the disaster happened in Fukushima some are wondering if there are no other nuclear power plants in the world just as obsolete as the Japanese one, considering the same dangerous conditions with the possibility of potential earthquakes, tsunamis or other adverse conditions that may promote accidents that end up to cause lasting harm to the environment and to all the ecosystem. The same unit of a nuclear installation will wear pretty quickly (including concrete structures) compared to other conditions of use and old plants were not designed for easy replacement of worn or damaged parts, then it seems that to Fukushima secondary emergency devices have entered into damage to cause of the tsunami, while modern designs include automated systems with for example water tanks placed directly above the reactors.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 14, 2011 n°: 1554
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Slow improvement of the situation in Japan

Continuing aftershocks in Japan's own in the area of the damaged nuclear power plant, but without causing further damage or suspension of assistance from the technicians, in addition, the authorities have indicated that the nuclear radiation released by the plant are slowly decreasing and that the incident at least regarding the level of radiation and their total amount would be less severe than Chernobyl. The decision to classify the incident as "nuclear disaster" would be derived from the fact that radiation has been dispersed widely over time in the ocean, air, plants and drinking water, but the biggest concern derive for the possible contamination of the food chain whereas some elements have a decay time of their appointment unhealthy even of decades and also the so-called radioactive "scrap" remain long in the environment.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 13, 2011 n°: 1553
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Fukushima as Chernobyl

Strong aftershocks are continuing in Japan without causing major damage apart from the temporary suspension of transport services, but it seems there has been a radiation leak from the atomic plant of Fukushima and now the nuclear incident was officially classified at the same level of Chernobyl, seven on a scale of seven and therefore of the utmost gravity and also the evacuation area was increased. The technicians that have turned off yet another fire at a reactor are forced to operate a nuclear plant obsolete and badly damaged by the explosions, and seawater used to manage the emergency (some argue that the situation is worse than Chernobyl). To succeed to securing the contaminated plant will probably take several years and also the solution of the sarcophagus can hardly be achieved in a short time.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 12, 2011 n°: 1552
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Reduced the risk of radioactive leaks in Japan

A month after the devastating tsunami that devastated Japan with a balance of near twenty-six thousand victims (of which many elderly people who were unable to save themselves), considering the unlikelihood of finding alive a few more dispersed, the authorities said that the risk of radioactive leaks from a damaged nuclear power plant would be considerably reduced even though there are difficulties to prevent a return to the sea other radioactive water used to cool the reactors. The technicians who work to secure the nuclear plant have used injections of nitrogen to avoid explosions of hydrogen which is formed when the water level of cooling of the fuel rods is too low. According to some the prolonged use of sea water in the reactor could cause a weakening of their structures and would require opportune repairs.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 11, 2011 n°: 1551
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Technology for the research on the atom

The technology used for the study of nuclear physics have required decades of experimentation to arrive in December 1942 to the implementation of uranium and graphite stack of E. Fermi (1901-1954), considered the first nuclear reactor developed by man, and it seems that the use of complex calculations have been also used an early electronic computer called successively jokingly "maniac", but capable of unimaginable benefits for the period. The research on the atom in practice were made possible thanks to the discoveries of Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) and described in her "Treatise of radioactivity", in which explains the process of exposing to the action of neutrons of radioactive minerals up to achieve a kind of transformation of matter (stuff of alchemists), so could say from certain points of view, on the whole a decidedly unhealthy use of the technology.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 09, 2011 n°: 1550
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Settling earthquake in Japan

The strong aftershock with a magnitude between 7.1 and 7.4 on the Richter scale that hit the northeastern part of Japan would have caused four victims, a hundred injured and a loss of water from the nuclear power plant in Onagawa, but apparently without endangering regarding the increase of nuclear radiation outside the plant. The technicians who worked to secure the damaged central of Fukushima (that also look at whether to build a cooling system external to the reactors) have temporarily suspended work due to tsunami alarm, then returned, since the earthquake was found in the sea at a depth of fifty kilometers off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. European geologists have reported that even in the Mediterranean would have to install an automatic system alarm in the event of a tsunami for areas considered rather seismic.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 08, 2011 n°: 1549
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Radiation more or less positive

Radiation can be used for therapeutic foster care by radiotherapy for cancer and also for certain skin diseases (eg curieterapia), but can also be very harmful to the body and the same Marie Sklodowska Curie who did long researches on the radioactivity, died of leukemia, probably for having excessively exposed to radiation that emanate from elements such as uranium, polonium and radium. The couple Pierre and Marie Curie are known for studies of radioactivity and in particular Marie in difficult conditions by examining the properties of pitchblende and calcolite discovered in 1898 that these minerals were much more active than uranium, to be able to extract the polonium (named of the Marie Curie country origin) and after another exhausting attempts, the radio, described as "naturally bright and fascinating azure" (not knowing the danger of the element).

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 07, 2011 n°: 1548
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Closed a leak of a Japanese nuclear reactor

The technicians who work to secure a nuclear Japan would be able to first slow and then halt completely the emission of highly radioactive water from a vessel containing a reactor, injecting a vitrified solution and hardening of chemicals type into the leak of about twenty centimeters, also are going to verify that there are no other losses. Several countries have introduced controls on food imported from Japan in some cases by changing the permissible limits of radiation, while the fish contaminated with radioactive cesium beyond the legal limits had been caught in a sea area south of the nuclear damage plant and the fishermen have reported the collapse of the price of the catch fish by more than sixty percent. The India would be the first country to have established a three-month ban on imports of certain food from all over Japan.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 06, 2011 n°: 1547
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Slightly radioactive water spilled into the ocean

Work continues in Japan to try to secure a nuclear power plant damaged, where the technicians were forced to discard some eleven thousand five hundred tons of water contaminated with iodine¹³¹ radioactive a hundred times above the safety threshold, as authorities announced compensation for the population and the local farmers. In the damaged reactor cooling operations need continuous supply of large quantities of water that eventually accumulate in the base and is mildly radioactive and therefore not too dangerous to health as opposed to coming out seems to be a small crack in the vessel of cement and steel (which would be difficult to repair). About eighty percent of the more twelve thousand victims (not counting missing persons) of the tsunami would have been recognized and the remains returned to family members.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 05, 2011 n°: 1546
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Long periods of time to decontaminate Japan

After the difficulties found to repair a leak radioactive water that pours into the Pacific Ocean come into contact with a reactor of a nuclear Japan is damaged, the authorities said that will require a long period of time (months) to secure the nuclear plant and decontaminate the whole area that has absorbed radiation and the solution of the problem can not be "just around the corner". The instrumental measurements outside of the ring of about thirty kilometers considered of concern for the health of the population would be above the safe limits, although the evacuation zone had been established to twenty kilometers, but the main concern is the contamination the sea and the food chain since the water that circulates inside the containment vessel of the core can transmit the radiation to such as iron elements.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 04, 2011 n°: 1545
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The discovery of the radioactivity

The researches on the field of the radioactivity were a consequence of the discovery of the X-rays and theories on light and electromagnetic waves of Maxwell and Hertz, in fact, to examine these studies J.H. Poincaré (1854-1912) advised the physical Henri Becquerel (Paris 1852 - Le Croisic 1908) to determine whether there might be a connection between X-ray and phosphorescence-phluorescence. Becquerel using the salts of uranium discovered in 1896 the phenomenon of radioactivity by exposing the rays emitted from uranium to the magnetic field of an electromagnet, also found that these rays impressed the photographic plate, and for this reason were called precisely "Becquerel rays". By studying the properties of radiation experienced that some type were stopped by a sheet of aluminum, while others were more penetrating, and through further investigation it was discovered the so-called cathode rays.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 02, 2011 n°: 1544
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Search for tsunami victims in Japan

Many of the victims of the violent earthquake and subsequent tsunami that rocked Japan have yet to be recovered and teams of soldiers are going to search for the missing, but apparently excluding the area is contaminated by the accident at the nuclear power plant that still worried about the difficulty to put it into security, since the bodies have absorbed large doses of radiation and may not even be cremated. Earthquakes are natural phenomena that cause changes in the equilibrium state of the crust, then according to geophysicists should monitor the possible Japanese volcanic activity even though the may not necessarily be a direct relationship. In the meantime it seems that the Japanese government will take control of the situation, while some talk of increasing the size of the evacuation from the nuclear power plant severely damaged.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 01, 2011 n°: 1543
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Some difficulties in the sale of fish in Japan

The Japanese fishermen who operate near the nuclear out of control plant still complain of lost sales of the fish lost in this way the means of subsistence necessary for the reconstruction of their houses after the tsunami that claimed more than eleven thousand deaths and untold damage, whereas that tourism, catering and export of goods are rather disadvantaged. Robots designed to operate in situations of environmental contamination should try to make the sale of the reactors (but temperatures within their structures are still high) before the construction of a sarcophagus to contain the radiation that in the ocean close enough to the atomic plant would be more of four thousand times above normal. Analysis of the fish caught outside the prohibition area would not have revealed traces of radioactive potentially dangerous to the health.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 31, 2011 n°: 1542
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Radioactive traces that are discussed

Traces of radioactive particles non-hazardous to human health from a Japanese nuclear power plant were measured on some land in Italy (low doses), but in the meantime seems to have led to discussion among the regions bordering with France about the safety of nuclear installations not far from Italy in case of a major seismic event. The tragedy of Japan has shown that even in a country accustomed to living with earthquakes and tsunamis is not easy to adopt security measures really effective, meanwhile, the rate of "radioactivity" (a term coined by Marie Sklodowska Curie 1867 Warsaw - 1934 Paris) measured in already contaminated areas continues to rise, and especially at sea for cause it seems to infiltration of water from the flooded basement of a reactor with highly radioactive water came in contact with the core partially damaged.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 30, 2011 n°: 1541
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Artificial elements strongly radioactive

The news that near a Japanese atomic reactor were found traces of plutonium, although the authorities declared that are not dangerous for the health, arises the question as the point to which the research may drive extent, in fact, Plutonium is a highly radioactive element produced artificially in the laboratory by Seaborg and Segrè in 1939-41 by subjecting an isotope of uranium to the action of deuterons accelerated, and if this sort of metal particles are inhaled into the body and therefore tend to settle, and with potentially carcinogenic effect over the years. The cause of environmental contamination of the Japanese nuclear power reactors around the bowls is not clear and may have been caused by radioactive vapors condensed, however, the utmost vigilance was expected to escape a situation that perhaps is a bit out of control.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 29, 2011 n°: 1540
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The meltdown of the core and leukemias

The absence of external cooling with water Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant because of removal of staff for a sudden and strong radiation leak seems to have caused the partial melting of a reactor, unfortunate event for a nuclear plant for the effect type "molten magma" of nuclear fuel inside the core, with the result that the steel structure and the radiation it releases are free to propagate in the environment (if also is damaged the exterior of concrete and steel). The Japanese authorities discloses fluctuating data always very high of radioactivity, which was about a hundred thousand times more than normal, probably a thousand with momentary spikes of one thousand millisieverts of radiations (later scaled down), but who cares about the long-term danger to human health for any tumors and leukemia in the exposed population.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 28, 2011 n°: 1539
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Increase radioactivity into the sea near Fukushima

The measured radioactivity in the sea a few hundred meters from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant of iodine¹³¹ would be more than eighteen hundred times above safe limits, and then resulting in damage to marine fauna and flora without considering the whole food chain connected to this natural cycle, in addition, the radiation leaking from a damaged reactor would be ten thousand times beyond the limits. According to the experts who are monitoring the situation from the point of view of safety on human health while the radioactive iodine decays fast enough (about eight days) the radiocesium would take thirty years to halve its unhealthy charge and would be detected doses more than eighty times over the legal limits. Japanese citizens in the metropolis of Tokyo is particularly difficult to find water and food while the victims of the tsunami are over ten thousand.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 27, 2011 n°: 1538
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The splitting of the atom

When discussing of nuclear energy back in the memory experiments of so-called boys of Panisperna street in Rome, a group of students including Henry Fermi, Edward Amaldi.. guided by a "political and physical" Orso Marius Corbino who was committed from 1918 about the development of nuclear physics Italian to reach the results that came to affect all subsequent researches. Already at that time aimed at big business for the exploitation of atomic energy that had not yet fully revealed all the dangers that this type of hidden technology, and it was for cause of the World War II that the research had a decisive boost from the Albert Einstein's decision to give his contribution to building an atomic device, then those researches in practice were used to develop the nuclear power stations to produce electricity.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 26, 2011 n°: 1537
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Increase the contaminated area in Fukushima

Continue the checks on foods from the land near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and while the Taiwan authorities have banned the import from five prefectures in Japan extends to thirty kilometers from the area around the nuclear plant where the population is asked to leave, a measure of prudence rather than security, but while considering whether to raise the level of accident severity to six on a scale of seven and special pumps and fresh water were provided by international aid. Usually the plants that are more contaminated in the case of nuclear incident are the cereals, in fact, the radionuclides transported to long distances by wind or weather and then rainfall would tend to breed in their ears (as verified in the case of Chernobyl) and for example the radiostrontium is considered more dangerous of the radioactive iodine.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 25, 2011 n°: 1536
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No hazardous radioactive cloud passes over Italy

According to some instrumental measurements the radioactive cloud formed as a result of contaminated vapors leaked from the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant (came into operation in 1971) would also move to Italy, but apparently highly diluted and therefore not dangerous to health and even it comes to air currents with a difficult to measure radioactivity, although the situation in Japan still worries and workers (some hospitalized for controls) have not yet succeeded in securing all the nuclear facilities. Meanwhile, for many stations around the globe are expected of so-called "stress test" to check the safety measures, operations that in case of the atomic energy can be risky and even to Chernobyl (came into operation in 1977) the accident officially occurred in 1986 for a simulation of a power failure resulting in increased pressure and explosion of the reactor.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 24, 2011 n°: 1535
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Saving energy and technology

The energy supply is one of the most pressing problems of industrial societies and the cost of energy can make a difference in the efficiency of production, then almost goes without saying that the choices of many countries are linked to the energy, decisions that affect the lives of millions of people and the environment in which they live. The energy is often wasted, whereas in modern societies can be saved on consumer devices with technology and also with simple designs set to safeguard the environment, for example with regard to the heating of various local, with good insulation can be avoided waste, and transportation are equipped with engines that not use new technologies (such as the internal mixed combustion and that stratified) and energy generating plants are not on "human scale" and pose a risk also the other innocent creatures.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 23, 2011 n°: 1534
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Smoke still comes out from Fukushima Daiichi plant

Grayish smoke continue to emerge from the nuclear reactors in Fukushima, even if the engineers have restored power to nearly all the cooling systems, but it seems to increase the level of contamination of the sea water and of the food, not to mention fodder for animals that for example had been enriched with bentonite at the time of the Chernobyl accident for the capacity of this clay to "dilute" the level of radioactive cesium. According to the Japanese authorities some contaminated food may already be sold on the domestic market (mainly leafy vegetables) also provided compensation for farmers who can not sell their crops as continues the difficult task of bringing relief to those affected by the violent tsunami that has claimed more than eight thousand eight hundred victims, and twelve hundred six hundred missing persons beyond to incalculable damages.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 22, 2011 n°: 1533
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Prevention from radiation and Potassium iodide

Exposure to radiation can cause leukemia, cancer in various organs and especially the thyroid, then depending on the amount absorbed in millisieverts DNA damage more dangerous for individuals of young age that might make a good prevention taking Potassium iodide pills within about twelve hours of exposure, the test was carried out in Poland at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 thanks to the administration of the antidote children then by comparison with Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (even if the conditions for such central Fukushima Daiichi are very different and in China the authorities do not recommend making supplies of iodized salt). Japanese engineers have announced the disposal and the decommissioning of nuclear power that still concern around the globe and it seems that the costs of "destruction" are generally higher than those for the construction of a nuclear power station.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 21, 2011 n°: 1532
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Contamination of food in Fukushima

Controls on food from the area of nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi have verified a significant radioactive contamination (especially spinach, milk and water) and also in Tokyo which is about two hundred and forty kilometers from Fukushima was found to have traces of iodine¹³¹ in samples of drinking water and the population for some days have been distributed stable iodine pills that allow a slight prevention. The technicians who work in nuclear power plant damaged exposing themselves to high levels of radiation were able to flood water to the reactors and to restore electricity to the cooling of some plants, but seems to find difficulty in reactors with the shells that do not allow more a just contain of the radioactivity, although efforts continue to limit the damage while there are controversy about the initial intervention retard.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 20, 2011 n°: 1531
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A sarcophagus for the nuclear plant in Fukushima

To protect the environment and the population from radiation raises the possibility of burying nuclear plant in Fukushima Daiichi in a concrete sarcophagus as at Chernobyl since the casings seem damaged at least two reactors, one fed with special "MOX with plutonium" bar highly radioactive and with decay time of thousands of years. In the meantime, continues to struggle against the nuclear power plant out of control trying to restore electricity to cool the reactors and to this end has been set up a dedicated power line after previous attempts were hampered by strong radiation, that the same Japanese authorities have declared harmful for the health (and that can cause cancer in the coming years to those exposed), while in the meantime the death toll from the tsunami officially rose to over six thousand five hundred individuals.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 19, 2011 n°: 1530
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Safer nuclear energy

Studies carried out in the '80s had shown that was possible to build nuclear plants much safer, assuming that nuclear energy can be considered safe, thanks to small and medium sized power plants equipped with closed circuit cooling without the use of pumps and closed in concentric circles of protection build with pre-stressed concrete that still allow access for maintenance. The main feature of these systems more secure was a limitation on the power output of the reactor and emergency (passive) facilities that commenced operations without human intervention in a mechanical way, then the research was oriented towards the so-called "cold fusion", which seemed be very promising, but inexplicably the projects were not developed, although it is shown that is possible replicate the basic chemical processes that allow these nuclear safer reactions.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 18, 2011 n°: 1529
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A technology not safe in Fukushima

The incident at the Fukushima nuclear plant raises questions about how it is possible that the very radioactive spent fuel rods in the first phase were apparently stored in a tank without special protection of a thick steel shell and therefore with a high risk of contamination for the environment. The technology used for the system is practically obsolete and, paradoxically, the lack of electricity makes it impossible to activate the cooling pumps (even if is try to reactivate them) and then exposing to extreme radiation the technicians that with various methods shoot water on the damaged reactors, but the level of radiation does not seem to diminish. It awaits the arrival of remote-controlled robot and special pumps to try to avoid a disaster of proportions that some say potentially superior to that of Chernobyl, a dangerous race against the time and the nature.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 17, 2011 n°: 1528
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Possible contamination of food in Japan

Due to the leakage of radioactive material from cracks in the concrete and steel outer casing of the reactor core number two (and probably others) of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is possible that there is danger to the health of the population and consequent contamination of food on which droplets fall of steam carried by wind or rain. The international authorities have declared that the accident was more serious than reported and therefore are of six on a scale of seven and now also in Japan and admit that the level of radiation in some areas is quite high, with a slight decrease in the nuclear power that seems could enables a small emergency team to continue to pump sea water into the reactors. Meanwhile the death toll of the eearthquake and tsunami is more than four thousand three hundred people even if the number of missing remains very high (near twenty thousand).

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 16, 2011 n°: 1527
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Danger of radioactive cloud in Japan

The health situation in Japan is rather precarious for the difficulties of the rescue workers to move into a territory devastated and shocked, but also increases the danger that releases a radioactive cloud from the number two reactor nuclear power plant in Fukushima due to the prolonged absence of the cooling of the fuel rods that could have merged as magma with the risk of damaging the core, whereas there was also an explosion that forced the evacuation of part of the staff and to extend the safety zone around the equipment. The Japanese authorities, who have asked for international aid, monitor individuals who have come into contact with radiation (in the simplest cases it seems are using heavy showers and iodine pills), although for the moment not seems there to be a so-called "Chernobyl danger", with statements in the complex rather contradictory.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 15, 2011 n°: 1526
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Worries about the health of the Japanese

After the explosion of another envelope of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, the authorities stated that the reactor core was not damaged, but in the meantime seems to increase the level of radiation released into the atmosphere that could reach large centers settlements based on the action of winds and rain precipitation. Also some controversy on the efficiency of prevention since the population would have only few minutes notice to save themselves by the tsunami despite being present automatic fire alarm, then for the lack of electricity many people could not get information profits or ask for help in a situation of devastation and cold. For some the nuclear fuel rods used in Fukushima would be of a "rich mix" that releases rather radioactive steam when released into the environment (with alerts also for other stations).

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 14, 2011 n°: 1525
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Japan upset

The earthquake that struck Japan of intensity very intense quantifiable of magnitude between 8.8 and 9.0 on the Richter scale shook a country accustomed to living with earthquakes (but apparently not of this magnitude) and in other emergencies do not stop the warning to radioactive nuclear power plant in Fukushima with technicians working to monitor pressure and temperature using seawater in another reactor plant of not new project after the reactor had significant problems with an explosion and flight envelope of a cloud not too radioactive to the Pacific Ocean. Yet we can not exclude the danger of possible merger in the two reactors with cooling system broke, while doing the temporary account of victims (officially thousand and six hundred, estimated over ten thousand) of earthquake or more properly the sea-quake an then the tsunami that wiped out entire communities of individuals.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 13, 2011 n°: 1524
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Problems at the nuclear plant in Fukushima

The radiation of the nuclear power plant number one of Fukushima had reached unusually high levels due to the failure of the cooling system after the violent "earthquake" of magnitude 8.9 located at sea about 140 km from the coast that has hit Japan, and the population (more than hundred and forty thousand individuals) were evacuated from an area of twenty kilometers from the nuclear plant not just recent as technology. Although in Japan there is earthquake-resistant construction that has held up very well to strong initial shock and the intense performances of magnitude greater than 6 the damage was considerable and resulting primarily from the high tsunami waves and there are over thousand victims and many missing and injuries, but is also high concern for the controlled escape of radioactive cesium to cool the hot core of the plant in Fukushima.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 12, 2011 n°: 1523
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Violent earthquake in Japan

A strong earthquake estimated of magnitude between 7.9 to 8.9 on the Richter scale located in sea in the north-eastern Japan rocked buildings in Tokyo causing panic in the population that has poured into the streets with fires and cars in some areas swept away by the waters and there is also a tsunami warning in the Philippines, Taiwan, Russia.. (with waves of ten? metres), the shocks began to affect the north-east of the country a few days ago and already the tools on that occasion had registered the epicenter of the island of Honshu at about ten kilometers deep with telluric movements which caused a 7.3-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami waves of small high just over fifty centimeters. Second some researchers is possible to monitor the movements of the earth micro satellites that could be predictive of potential earthquakes, without can to determine the exact day of the event.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 11, 2011 n°: 1522
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Fukushima alert