Tsunami Japanese nuclear emergency decree
The International Atomic Energy Agency said the earthquake paralyzed the activity of eleven nuclear power stations. The Japanese Government has denied any radiation leaks
NUCLEAR ALERT. The authorities are trying to revive the cooling system of the Fukushima nuclear power plant (AP)
Vienna | Friday March 11, 2011EFE | The Universal15:37
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The Japanese authorities have declared a "nuclear emergency" in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale rocked the country, said the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ).
According to information provided by the authorities Nipponese the UN nuclear agency, the quake and subsequent tsunami cut the flow of electricity in the plant and the emergency diesel engine that should fill the gap does not work, due to damage natural disaster.
Currently, authorities are still trying to fix the alternative energy system to put in place as soon as the cooling mechanism of the nuclear plant, the IAEA said in a statement issued in Vienna.
Nuclear fuel requires a continuous cooling even when the atomic sites have stopped working, recalled the UN nuclear agency.
In another nearby nuclear plant, Fukushima Daini, authorities have established the "heightened state of alert", without the IAEA to provide more details about the situation.
"The IAEA seeks more details on the situation in Fukushima Daiichi and other nuclear power plants and research reactors, including information on power supplies, cooling systems and the condition of the reactors," he said.
The earthquake paralyzed the activity of eleven nuclear plants, although the Japanese Government has denied the existence of radioactive leaks.
However, as protocol dictates Japan in these cases, the government has declared a state of emergency nuclear energy.
Thousands of people residing within a radius of three kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi plant were evacuated at the request of local authorities, to detect problems at the plant.
In the United States in 1979 was one of the most serious nuclear accident in history at Three Mile Island plant, due to very high temperatures caused a partial meltdown of the reactor core of the second and subsequent radioactive cloud.
