find out what's really happening to the global economy because the reports on our. breaking news this hour asvab radioactive fallout is cleared after an explosion at the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan the reactor group has believed in injuring our new poll workers people within a twenty kilometers of the plant of being evacuated it follows japan's worst ever wait and the resulting tsunami over seven hundred people are confirmed dead but as the rescue continues that number is expected to grow.

old with a very warm welcome to you just one story domination the world's attention right now and that's the disaster in japan our classes destroyed part of a nuclear facility in the tsunami hit north a twenty kilometer evacuation zone is in place but all say radiation levels remain within the expected range the explosion has struck the focus shima one nuclear plant some two hundred fifty kilometers north of tokyo the roof on one of the walls that caved in injuring at least four workers official say the reactor is not affected well it follows first days eight point nine magnitude quake that triggered a massive tsunami could spread to struction dozens of kilometers inland over seven hundred people are now confirmed dead but it's thought that number could read. more

than a thousand thirteen hundred people are still missing rescue is at a scene a recruiting shocking devastation with entire villages washed away and towns ravaged by the tsunami a possible radiation leak from before the human nuclear plant remains the biggest concern laiva bennett is in tokyo for r.t. ivor what's the latest that you can tell us. the latest news you got here is good news in fact as a government spokesman at the fukushima one power plant has in the last hour or two come out and said that the nuclear reactor there is not damage that was the main fear and in fact the radiation levels there are decreasing since the explosion happened bit earlier today their main fear earlier was that the reactor itself had exploded in xplosion was the damage and if that was the case then radiation would have been leaking and then we would have had nuclear meltdown on our hands and that

was actually a major concern until now because radioactive elements cesium and iodine both great actually kulas that were in their reactor they were remnants of those found outside so the fear was that early cooling system a failed the backup generators that also failed and then the reactor itself went into meltdown and started to leak it appears that's not the case now and the radiation levels have also dropped earlier today there were so to be a thousand science the normal level that's normally experienced at the fukushima power plant and it was said only about three hours ago on japanese media that if you stood outside the entrance of the power plants just for one hour you would experience the levels of. radiation you would experience in a whole year so we've had some good news then that official note from the japanese authorities that the reactors not been down age that

a nuclear meltdown how's been avoided but are people in japan still concerned that the problems there might ask a late. well that's definitely a concern and the author of these are acting accordingly because they've. kept they've increased the evacuation zone around that main nuclear power plant where the explosion happened from ten kilometers to twenty kilometers that and also in the last two hours that hasn't been. struck yet in this still back waiting for thousands of people there and in fact also telling people to stay in dogs in some parts because they feel even if they leave if they go outside they will be exposed to this radiation so still at dangerous levels in the atmosphere it's not as much as it was but the health warnings are being issued and by stopping is being issued on television and through other media outlets to people if they are going outside

this should cover up their face and mouth and nose and not breathe in any really really ation they should cover any exposed areas of skin if they go inside and scrub themselves clean from being outside and avoid drinking tap water until they know it's definitely safe so the concern is still that there are is a lot of radiation in the in the air and people are being evacuated not just from that one plant but also another plant a nearby village apparently still on high alert and still very concerned about the possible ramifications of what's happened in its northeast are about is the workers there managing to really containing incidents. as i said they've extended the evacuation zone and they've also done that to another secondary our plant where there are concerns that every could be radioactive fallout there from frequences the ten kilometers also preventing vehicles going closer than sixty kilometers on the highways and i've heard that journalists trying to get. to the area to those

evacuation areas they can't get close to sixty kilometers the police and emergency vehicles are saying that i was a closed so all got emergency vehicles so it seems like they've sealed off the area and from here it seems like they've got it under control so if less stopping people from by the sounds they getting from within sixty kilometers of the side what i want are people living near the nuclear facilities what's actually happening to that. some are being evacuated but about an hour ago there were some people were told to stay indoors in fact that was when the concern was that it could in fact be a nuclear meltdown. ending with the concern being that they get reactor itself had cracked and radiation was pouring out so they weren't sure then of what the radiation levels were and what they could be rising to if they evacuate in there and so people there their concern is if they get if they're exposed to radiation

then they would suffer severe health consequences and radiation poisoning leading to cancer and so people are staying indoors at the moment. or the evacuation process will get underway again now they've seen that the radiation levels are dropping and i've heard this is just one of more than fifty reactors in japan isn't it what states are they all in following the earthquake disaster. it was five other reactors in the in this key area of fukushima where that one explosion as happens that seems to be the main problem because. as i say the secondary one there's been an evacuation ten kilometers around there what happened there was that the earthquake actually shut out the cooling system so they couldn't do their job and the reactor then started to eat up what normally happens then is the backup generators. or and work to cool down the reactor again but because the

earthquake it was so severe the electricity just completely by chance it's got hotter and hotter and so all these five of the pursue nuclear reactors were actually operate under a state of emergency of and it's still being watched very closely. now one of the worries for people who are living in taipei where you are several hundred kilometers away from where the explosion actually happened it was hard to put your finger on it here because in the streets it's like a ghost town there's really no one around it's very strange from for a saturday night as well i imagine it will be a lot more busy you know it just be actually speaking to an english couple here who are here on holiday they've been here about a week they witness the earthquake. in in that center of tokyo they said that there wasn't any panic there was it was one sort of very restrained and deliberate

. actions and people were even although there were no cars on the streets people were actually. not running they were walking in even waiting for the green pradesh street man to come on and their street crossing allowing them to cross even though there's no traffic with these buildings swing around them so everyone still remaining very calm but on that on the surface clearly there are some thieves because no one is in the streets those that are not wearing face masks as well so there it is potentially a concern that the radiation not spreading near and of course the capital more that because it has shaken wasn't hit by death or they've got three year general situation there like now which. as i say is very quiet out on the street in terms of infrastructure things still are still on back to normal there's no damage seemingly on the streets here i haven't seen any but coming from the airport it was very hard to get to the center of town there were no taxis

a vehicle there were no buses running. trains were running very very sporadically in one of the two hours or so it took me for half hours to get into the center normally it takes a maximum of one and a half hours i'm told everyone was crowned on the trains not really knowing much as they also had only just flown into the country. it will very keen to catch up with loved ones though and see what was going on and so. is mild panic but it is in a very restrained way it seems ok artes and i belive that i've got updated from take care. well there are fears the aftermath of the explosion at japan's fukushima nuclear plant may affect russian is a far east the region situated closer japan could be vulnerable if spreads were the colonel island sakhalin and the pacific for survival strong have also been threatened by high waves following friday's earthquake. in the village all that is

on the russian island as lynn just two hours flight from tokyo gauging people's reaction there. well it's not in the immediate proximity of course and it's not yet clear how serious consequences of a possible radioactive contamination for the local residents could be but what we're seeing is that the accident at fukushima and this recent explosion is definitely adding to local residents' worries will shortly after a few fans natural disaster on friday their main wars were about ten other tsunami which could he be there a close to the one which could be more furious more strong one but what they're worried now is about a possible radioactive contamination we saw residents who were going to pharmacist looking. searching for their own geiger counters to measure the radiation levels and. that which is actually quite hard to do on

a weekend unless you work in the hospitals and or is or is a doctor at you while emergency officials are saying that they will keep the public updated on the latest and say that there will be enough time to vacated necessary now for a cause reports of weather forecast. for those who live on the coral islands which is just several miles away from japan's coast we know that it was eleven thousand people have been already vacated to c.t. from the areas which could be flooded and rescuers are urging local residents to move deeper inland and to shelter about the sea levels. will wilson or from the fisherman that despite reports had been saying that waves did not reach heights evolve a meter around the curial arlen's we know that the waves were as high as three meters on saturday morning. dr robert jacobs a research things the professor of nuclear history culture at her russia. says

a release of radiation into the atmosphere could lead to serious health problems roll wind. having studied the history of these incidents in the past i know that at this reactor there had been attempts to reduce the pressure inside the reactor core and to cool the reactor to avoid meltdown. to see an explosion as we saw in that building obviously indicates a failure in those efforts. clearly the situation in this reactor is not under control if there is an explosion of that sort that blows the building apart so it would. it's hard to say exactly what it reflects but it would certainly indicate the likelihood of a partial meltdown in the potentiality of a full meltdown clearly any exposure to radiation at all is bad for the human body and bad for human health there's been warnings already on japanese television and

in the region to take really take precautions to minimize exposure to radiation and people are now being told to stay in their homes rather than to a backing away which would be an indicator of the presence of radiation in the atmosphere but it's not a simple matter to keep radiation outside of the house although it will minimize exposures so the people in those areas and the people in the downwind areas are certainly in significant risk having exposures that could lead to health problems depending on the size of the of the releases and the amount of radiation that enters the atmosphere the nearby atmosphere there's a possibility the areas around the plants could be left. could be left much like the area around turmoil as areas that wouldn't be whipped and it wouldn't be entered that's a worst case scenario if that's the case to contain that area into a small areas possible is the goal so people there people in those areas should follow the guidance of the government officials but they should definitely take

steps to minimize their exposures in any way to radiation if there's a stigma. if you can release the radiation into the atmosphere that can easily go into the upper atmosphere and then spread. in the upper atmosphere around the globe this kind of radiation will typically come down from the upper atmosphere with precipitation like rain or snow which makes if if there is a very very significant release into the atmosphere people in people certainly in jack in japan and in the region here and potentially even across the pacific ocean would want to avoid exposure to rain over the next week or two. we're reminding you now of the main use this hour fears over radiation leak in japan remain after a massive explosion at the fukushima one a nuclear plant it's understood the blast was caused by a failure in the cooling system and not the reality itself the level of radiation

in the control room is a thousand times higher than normal but authorities say it's within expected limits but they're concerned of a possible meltdown at one of the plants reactors however it's the container housing it was not damaged by the blast evacuation zone is now a radius of twenty kilometers the u.n. nuclear watchdog is calling on japanese authorities to the art date information on the damage and the possible consequences of the blast. well the situation because she is seeing comparisons drawn to teach a novel nuclear explosion which was the world's worst atomic plant disaster that happened twenty five years ago in ukraine with the effects of the contamination are still felt today well let's talk now to our correspondents at it from. here and peter all over he's the moscow for us i first to you alexy in ukraine we can of course see that white plume of smoke over the fukushima plant from the thirty's and

getting enjoying the day what can we infer from that. well it is really hard to judge what this white smoke was caused by but definitely it reminds us of what happened twenty five years ago quarter of a century in the ukrainian town of chernobyl back then of course it was the u.s.s.r. now it's part of sovereign ukraine the white smoke was indeed coming out of the open a cracked open reactor after the explosion which happened early in the morning on april twenty sixth nine hundred eighty six indeed the one the accident which is now taking place in japan it looks like just like the chernobyl accident with one exception that in japan there's far more of this white smoke coming out of the reactor as we've seen at the different pictures shown by the japanese television all throughout the day it is hard to say what caused this explosion yet we have

heard no official explanation so far we've heard a version that it was caused by some explosion of hydrogen cooling systems inside the nuclear facility but it is really hard to say whether this was so i've been to several nuclear plants myself and i've seen those cooling systems hard to imagine that they could produce an explosion like that as we've seen on the footage from the japanese television so of course we're all waiting for some viable explanation of what the explosion was caused by from the japanese government ok that's cause i have to pee tonight he's a must for us. have experienced dealing with some serious atomic. hazard to help been offered to japan yes. well that's right the experience gained in the lessons learned from dealing with the nine hundred eighty six. a key seat if it comes to their request going for any help with dealing with the cleanup if the situation in fukushima number one now as of yet russia has said she wanted terri in

a to japan and probably more thoughts needed however there has been no requests. full. of assistance when it comes to the containing and cleaning up of this kind of nuclear disaster that we're seeing here however that doesn't rule out the possibility of it coming in the future we look at japan's own systems that they have in place will be stretched to the limit at the moment it's not just fukushima that has problems a. state of disaster has been declared by many reactors across japan so we just unease authorities will be stretched to the limit and the possible continues the possibility of outside help being requested especially from countries like russia who have the experience of dealing with and of containing a new nuclear disaster that becomes more and more likely. save in ukraine for us at this stage all the way all the similarities that we know

between needs and focus on behalf of channel. well obviously this white smoke coming from the reactor building is the only ovie resemblance which we can see between the two incidents twenty five years ago chernobyl and at the fukushima plant now a days that's where the similarities and the situations are basically different simply because what caused the what caused them you know the the fallout internal was caused by a massive human error what is happening now in japan is of course the result of a natural disaster the earthquake happened which happened on friday and the other big difference and this is a very significant difference between the two events is how the government has been responding to the to the events obviously twenty five years ago the government of the soviet government kept most of the information secret from the general

population in russia as well as from the rest of the world and went on a massive secret campaign to just. safeguard this information and this was this is something which we cannot see today because the japanese government even though we have conflicting reports coming from the islands of what's happening there and we have no certainty of what caused this loss still the japanese government ordered the evacuation of people from the surrounding areas at the fukushima region this didn't happen twenty five years ago when fifty four thousand residents of the town of people next to the chernobyl power plants were kept in the town for more than twenty four hours and this of course caused some damage to them the people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat coming from the open reactor of course these mistakes were learnt the mistakes by that made by the soviet government and this is

what the japanese government is hopefully trying to avoid right now but clearly if the situation is internal and fukushima one are different despite what we can see in the pictures from the japanese television. well i'd say there are fears of course the need to melt down a machine applause all that means. well. the meltdown itself the nuclear meltdown itself is a very scary thing for all scientists as i've been calling it their worst nightmare ever indeed this meltdown is all about at the core of the reactor going into an uncontrollable state and that's causing a nuclear chain reaction first and then a powerful steam explosion like it happened internal this is like a romeo it's trying to control a crazy horse because nobody knows whether you would be able to get the can react to back under control or not this did not have an internal this was a result of a failed experiment when the scientists when the personnel the power station tried

to lower the output of the reactor and then bring it to a temporary halt. when the reactor started behaving in an uncontrollable fashion some of the personnel pressed the emergency brake button as we can as we can call it and just forty nine seconds since the start of the experiment the reactor exploded and that caused the fallout and the contamination of great areas all along the former soviet u.s.s.r. so obviously as we've been hearing from the japanese authorities right now the reactor stays intact it's not been damaged according to the authorities and. we hopefully think that such contamination as it happened twenty five years ago in your novel would be avoided this time but of course we have to wait and see what happens next with this developing story indeed wanted and we do know that the i.a.e.a. is saying that the japanese authorities are making preparations to distribute to residents near the. nuclear power plant peter that's right here in moscow

russia is a far east little unlicenced a few thousand kilometers into the sea from northern japan so what measures are being taken there and how worried. well that's right rush's territory lies very very close to japan and very close to of course to where this nucular uclear disaster has taken place now we've seen a partial evacuation of the coastal islands there's also high alert status in stockholm in russia's far east far east of course the major city there a lot of the stork many people living in that city will be very concerned about how close they are to this this disaster this taking place in northeastern japan now as it stands at the moment authorities in russia's tertiary are saying they've seen no increase in the levels over radiation record it's an either. or russia's far eastern seaboard now the main thing that needs to be watched to listen what all the

russian authorities and people on the ground there will be looking at is the whether the one thing that we can put in place you can try and close the reactor you can cover it with concrete you can try and do whatever you kind of stop radiation leaking but if radiation gets out into the atmosphere into the air then it can be carried anywhere by the weather so all eyes will be looking to see if any winds are moving towards russia or away from russia where they are heading to take any radiation they would be ok in the atmosphere so everybody very concerned and keeping a watchful eye over the conditions of the weather that we will see at the moment now we heard that the russian authorities are apparently not getting as much information out of japan as they would really be happy with concerning the situation at fukushima now they are planning the russian authorities are planning for all possible outcomes from that and you can react to their they are planning to for any foreseeable outcome that would include i guess any kind of full scale

meltdown and subsequent explosion and output over radiation that would come from that meltdown so everything being considered here in russia of course dealing directly in consultation with the international atomic energy agency and hopefully trying to. to gain any information they can give to their citizens the russian citizens on. the far east of the country in order to keep them safe and protected should there be any potential risk from radiation he said many thanks for that many thanks to both of you alexa he was speaking to you in ukraine and each one of the who's here in moscow for us. but when we consider nuclear accidents throughout history of course the worst that we think of is the chernobyl disaster of nine hundred eighty six that alexy which is speaking to us about that there have been more than you might think with japan no stranger to atomic emergencies well among the first major nuclear energy incidents was at a testing station in the u.s.

state of idaho at a steam explosion in one thousand nine hundred sixty one released small amounts of nuclear material but underlined the dangers of the industry the well known three mile island accident in pennsylvania in one nine hundred seventy nine saw partial core meltdown inside a pressurized water reactor japan's first major incident occurred in one hundred ninety nine talk or more to your brain processing facility north of tokyo workers there added too much ukranian directly into your precipitation tank two people were killed after radiation rose well apart from this limits japan's most deadly problem to date was a steam explosion at the mahal a nuclear power plant in two thousand and four four people died and eighteen was seriously injured. well this is our scene with continuing coverage of the tragedy in japan stay with us.

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