Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuclear crisis: PM

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 10:21

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Japan on `maximum alert` over nuclear crisis: PM

Osaka: Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan today said his government is in a "state of maximum alert" over the crisis at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, Jiji Press reported.

Kan told a lower house budget committee meeting that the situation "continues to be unpredictable" and that the government "will tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert," Jiji reported.

Radiation worries have disrupted efforts to restart the cooling system of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was battered by a huge earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that left more than 28,000 people dead or missing.

Plutonium has been detected in soil at the facility northeast of Tokyo and highly contaminated water has leaked from a reactor building, the operator said yesterday, while nearby seawater has shown high iodine readings.

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First Published: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 10:21

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Steven - Canada
I watched a documentary on Chernobyl. If the same hold true what can be expected is lies and more lies. The French denied that a nuclear cloud ever came over their territory. The Russians lied about the severity and the amount of radiation at every turn. To this day no study has ever been done on the larger population surrounding the disaster. The workers at Fukushima can expect in the very least to have health problems for the rest of their life and that their lives will be shortened.

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jerson - canada
...can stand in the state of ``standing on your head`` as long as the ``problem`` is fixed (for everyone`s sake).
It is ``unpredictable`` because rather than two to four individuals walking out to an ambulance (five person minutes) you waste ten individuals` time ``carrying a large tarp`` (one hundred minutes equals ten minutes times ten individuals) when you need those ninety-five minutes working on the ``situation`` that, hello, is gravely serious.
Seems to me you need to make, buy or beg storage tanks and then you need to lay the cables...and if it`s beyond repair and outside agency experts agree then you need to bury it.
Give up the pride. In this situation you don`t have the reason or the resources for it. Go man, go. This is your top priority.