nuclear meltdown fears grow in japan after another blast of the fukushima power plant and it's not just reactors that respond to our fire an explosion way huge a fuel rolled so on balance. will force you say radiation levels near one of the reactors are dangerous to human health reports one of the new containment levels protecting one of the reactors has been down and around seem to be callous and. up an evacuation from the surrounding area. i will force you to have

confirmed nearly two thousand five hundred people dead so far and more than seventeen thousand are the so called quake and devastating tsunami that hit northeastern japan on friday. countries around the world all the help to japan is by natural and manmade catastrophes some experts say this is another example of how mankind are unable to have been for progress in science sizing the oil spill in the gulf of mexico and turning up. a very well conceived this is our sea life from moscow i know i said it's japan's prime minister has addressed the nation is fears intensified about a possible nuclear power plant strong ai last friday for catastrophic earthquake

and tsunami the company running the focus human nuclear power plant has a new mrs and. well down is a possibility following the explosions after complex a thirty kilometer no fly zone has been imposed over the new facility there also fears of a radioactive leak with reports of damage to one of the key containments levels protecting the reactor will increase thing a radiation levels are now being detectives throughout the country including in the capital tokyo readings at the front gates the power station on tuesday morning. is worth of now hearing radiation is being emitted within ethanol hour explosions at the site of taking place since friday's earthquake and tsunami damage the cooling systems there several people have been injured in the blast more than one hundred and fifty people have been exposed to radiation engineers and you can see water to

the reactors complex to avert a nuclear meltdown either ben it is one hundred kilometers that's from the question of station. one hundred degree on the situation that it has got a lot more. and not just the focus. of the whole country actually heading straight for all the foreign journalists and german screens we've come across this morning looking through. it and trying to get the fuck out of it because i did a very real now a nuclear meltdown at the fukushima. country already when. measured small amounts to substance is warm the. radiation.

morning. to you previously in fact truth makes it. those are the forces of reaction number four which is. used to fuel rods and what's significant is. normally a reaction around seventy fuel rods which contain radioactive substances it's one hundred seven hundred eighty three so the construct of potential of a serious radiation leak there they've managed to fire a gram now. it's very serious because the explosion early this morning previously in tanks nuclear reactor that actually damaged the container and that's prompted radiation levels around fukushima to rise to four hundred times for maximum one normally it's almost in a year and so it's actually prompted the prime minister and the tokyo electric power company for the first time to come out and address the nation and the possibility of a potential nuclear meltdown he's warned residents in

a thirty kilometer radius to stay indoors or not because if they do they risk here . and so. exposure to radiation levels could be catastrophic so it seems like we could be on the verge of a major nuclear disaster here in japan that could affect the whole country and potentially scripture oxer as well. a higher than normal level of radiation out there detected in the japanese. authorities say there was no imminent risk to help . joins us live now by the way from thinking i mean that was foreseen. the rising levels of radiation. for us at this point we're to get reports from various sources saying there's levels of radiation in tokyo itself christine where two centimes the norm you know as was mentioned earlier already you say that that is normal enough to be our series of however there are also reports from different

for sectors coming in and they paint a slightly different picture there's information. he's a little bit thirty three times higher north of tokyo and as we said earlier it was six around ten hours after the last four in the real true radioactive fallout to reach the japanese capital so we're looking possible. significant rise level towards the evening on monday. afternoon well of course the public are still waiting for the authorities to come out and maybe move further statements the prime minister has already said that everything is being done in order to prevent further review at weeks and explosions but of course in the circumstances since that was prior to the social service going to of course a need for to solution circumstances it is obvious that the problem is waiting for

the authorities to come out and say something this is obviously the situation is dire at this point everybody in tokyo seems to be on the pulse there is no panic i would not say says there is a higher than usual number. being warned by people for course we do have to hear more from the police authorities and their reaction to the are using to do it to the levels in the city and in the country as well do you want tapping into. rage across the country. well or says you can imagine the efforts the relief efforts are continuing all across the premier actually being frank there morris care is coming from various countries just. when i was arriving here i personally saw a couple of things from arising as well and of course we all know that russian russians atomic agency is also sending its specialists. so these

boards are being forced to help to deal with the situation that is found in. following the earthquake and is receiving me. great to talk about the numbers of. twenty five hundred have internet firm so far more than seventy thousand. on monday afternoon alone in one town in the north. two thousand bodies were recovered we can expect the numbers to rise significantly and the exact number of the people who died in these car seats is anything but it just became a sad story and we will first will continue to watch and see how many how those numbers change whether or not it is interesting will change with further. leaks. in the country is grateful to hear.

we basically right now we can see is a good thing worse situation for g.m. . and any time for our veterans he's really going to see that to us and taking what we're now to is going to regret jake is from iraq. his opinion on the developing a situation. being whether now we we've seen the radiation levels are rising beginning to spread low level even reaching. several kilometers away from the side what do you think engines of this for japan for the wider world. well the implications are grim. each day radiation has been person has been detected further and further away from the site so certainly there is a sense that the radiation is spreading further and further from the site being detected for example out to sea and in very very low levels in tokyo so the

implications are that the spread of radiation is increasing rather than being controlled and the implications of that for japan are devastating of course on human health and human habitation and communities hopefully this will be contained so that the very worst of this is localized to the side of the plants and there's no true danger to health or property you know far downwind and of course officials in japan maintain that there is. no danger of it's a noble self that you ation had that things happen getting progressively out of there and of course avoiding panic is essential but are we getting the full story. well it certainly appears that we're not getting the full story in the sense that every day we are told that the situation is under control and that efforts are succeeding in reducing the risk but yet every day we see this situation in getting further and further out of control each day we wake here in japan to

a much more grim situation then the day before and it's hard to imagine i think it's hard to give accurate information i think it's hard for the government to get accurate information but i think that there's a growing distrust among people in japan that the information that we're receiving is not informing us to the extent that we would like it so when it doesn't reduce panic it just makes people all the more uncertain and when they believe they can't trust fully the information they're being given a good walk. doing now to prevent any further damage will have. control. this intuition is very much difficult to control there's no doubt about it your you have a cite there you've had four explosions and significant radioactive releases at the site of the reactors so you have any extremely high levels of radiation in that local area making it extremely difficult for people to conduct the kind of work

that may be useful you had three aftershocks over seven point zero on the richter scale will make it difficult so in a sense what you have is you have people trying to repair an automobile damaged but that's moving at one hundred miles an hour without brakes or steering so the work that might be done that might be effective is getting increasingly problematic to perform out of course japan is a very high risk about quit for the time isn't it and with hindsight that's one thing but what's it wrong when you're going to have it within your power in the space given the thought i think that japan is a lie within the pacific ring of fire. yes i think it is i think that it is it's at times like this that we are confronted by the dangers that are posed by nuclear power plants and placing them in areas like earthquake zones really really increase the dangers but this is illustrated to me of the dangers of nuclear power as a source of energy when you have

a coal plant exploded people are hurt but once the explosion is done and the danger is reduced with nuclear power plants the danger from a mishap but also the danger from spent fuel which is over a thousand spent fuel rods stored at this site that danger extends on for hundreds of years and the money i'm in so there really is no way to say we can do it safely and looking back at what's happened that the fukushima plants the exclusion zone has been wiped out of person coloma says is that why not is that too little today's . it seems as though because the other plan because there were several plants that were still out there were not fully under control and still aren't under control at the beginning of this accident that song should've been expanded immediately rather than as the dangers cried out hesitantly and that being said everyone there were reports yesterday of people as close as three or four kilometers away not having

still being in the area that didn't leave when they were first trying to do should have been an absolute accusation of people close to those plants immediately once the troubles began and once there was a sense that solving the problems was not going to be easy. dr roberts said jacob speaking to us from the hiroshima peace is cheap many thanks for your thoughts. well russia has been pledging help and support to stricken japan sending crews them urgently work is an aid and this is the first quake triggered last. has more from us on moscow's involvement in all this catherine as the world is being done to help to. russia has of course our pledge to have all kinds of support every kind of assistance necessary to the japanese government and to people in these very difficult days of course following the tsunami earthquakes and to stress that the

fukushima nuclear power plant russia has sent a number of emergency ministry personnel to japan they're working in a number of locations we know that a lot of them have already arrived in japan and have basically tried every kind of gear with them to be completely honest into it for at least two weeks they're every i guess. substance piece of this area to help the people that are in. the system. look for survivors least trapped. the problem also that another harry urges ministry personnel has left moscow yesterday that's monday heading for egypt. egypt and those personality deal specifically with the radiation affected areas so all in all the emergency ministry is expecting to have at least one hundred people working in japan doing everything necessary

everything in their power to give assistance where it may be needed of course they will be able to help a lot more with things like looking for survivors that may be trapped under the rubble while the situation with the potential radiation leak from the fukushima nuclear plant is of course a lot more complicated there. there are is that relations are going the moment with the surrounding play kilometers out a radius of play for others everybody if they actually did from that song but even so it may still be too late to help all those in the vicinity of course russia knows from firsthand experience how difficult it is and how horrifying it is to deal with the aftermath of the brainiacs the radiation they try to fight yeah there is a goal accident at each of the chernobyl power plants has left the country devastated of course and many mistakes have already been gleaned from that experience of

living one very bitter lesson that perhaps not everything is under human control as my colleague ali exeter shows stimpy of. it was a frail old experiment that led to history's biggest nuclear disaster in april nine hundred eighty six the chernobyl reactor exploded as a result of the wrong individuals being in the wrong place at the wrong time and the very near they had very poor knowledge of the physics of the reactor. but that they knew nothing of the reactor physics the personal drug the reactor into st it was out of control while the earth or it is clearly knew who to blame for the fallout even the soviet union's top scientists were at a loss as to what to do in the days the catastrophe unfolded. of a nuclear power station mission free this was something unseen before a nuclear power station with flames and smoke over it was very good or of

a century on history seems to be repeating in japan despite the orthorexic there of having the situation under control the fukushima nuclear power plant has already seen explosions and that's despite advanced safety systems which the chernobyl reactor never have before you. it was completely full sea means. the reactors happen to be happening and this is very an exception. in that only if the sea be decent. that such a situation is unfolding in one of the world's most technologically advanced countries has heightened the sense of alarm internationally but some experts say one should look into how the japanese have been dealing with nuclear physics to get clues as to their continuing difficulties in dealing with

a disaster so that technology is dead he told. a society that government regulators believe that the technology can be operated safely but there's a built in psychological complacency if you're operating something that's so inherently dangerous when you go to work every day do you keep thinking about how dangerous that technology is that would be over time rather damaging psychologically so in other words they convince themselves that they've mastered this technology and unfortunately with nuclear power there's no second chance the japanese nuclear drama is certainly not the first case of man's over reliance on technology it can be a dangerous friend and when mishandled can strike in disastrous fashion we have always seen this with these they call tech with disasters you remember last year there was a massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico again you have a very competent famous company that seemed to know what it was doing but they

simply have no plan for conjuncture conditions that would create a disaster so this is the human condition we simply or people it seems to handle these technologies will probably not ready for them the nightmare that the chernobyl reactor became was eventually sealed off within the massive concrete tomb called the circle forgets the catastrophe provided valuable lessons in how to deal with a reactor disaster but also stern warnings about the dangers of nuclear energy what new lessons will be learned and what implications they will have for nuclear technology the world nervously waits to see lexie russia ascii art scene. of a similar that i think the professor of international christine taking people are now in great danger of exposure. there is a serious risk of contamination at this point but the contamination is probably

limited to from crushing the area. in the event of an im event such as this the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from a steam explosion will be quite large but it will be relatively contained to the geographical area around the plant the authorities are having to focus on the reactors whose temperatures are the highest and that may require the development of coolant and cooling materials such as generator power and pumping power away from the other reactors so the situation does seem to be getting worse if the level of coolant in the reactor pressure vessel the r.p.v. falls below a certain level the tops of those rods will be exposed to the air there is a super heating of the air and any water vapor around them that causes oxidize ation essentially very rapid rusting which produces hydrogen and hydrogen is what

as we have seen as cars the explosions in reactors at the moment i can say that the authorities are doing everything they can the most immediate concern which has come to us in tokyo over the past twelve hours last night is that the amount of fuel available in the north that is gasoline and diesel fuel and diesel fuel is one of the keys to resolving this situation and there are a number of fire trucks of fire emergency vehicles pumping water into these exposed or damaged or reactor buildings at these pumping trucks have to continue working there are also diesel generators which are pumping a mixture of seawater and boron that is more work acid boron and or gases neutron absorbers. so it's good to see on your reaction down there she was

here and working as it is being pumped into the reactors and those pumps must continue working it's very difficult for normal people to imagine the amount of pressure water pressure the trick or in this situation we think of high pressure water is coming out of a garden hose or police water cannon well the amount of water pressure required in this situation is extremely high because those reactor cores are so hot as the water system it turns very rapidly into steam and that steam has to be moved away from the reactor rods and water cut into its place so a constant stream of water has to be maintained and about and remain on high alert in russia so far in the region close to northern japan and danger of a radioactive cloud in the areas that's been minimal about not stopping some tourists and foreign workers from fleeing. the mergence is

ministry's say they have reinforced check the radiation levels here and say that as of now they stand at last that the average for these area but not residents all this region choose to leave we had seen people sitting on their backs today early morning at the lobby of the hotel and they were desperate to get the at the for a slight they could and leave to moscow and other cities up russia that's where the locals here most of them try not to panic and to run about their businesses as usual and they also say that features they are now seeing in japan look so familiar so what they had been through several years ago. this is how the trest and looks like you can hardly see the needle tracing the way form as a card to mourn it or a father is listening for every beat but things can change quickly. and you are

now seen in the real time a new earthquake is here in japan this is the wave trace it's strong it has a magnitude of six point five. this is what an earthquake of magnitude nine translates into. your eleven is not new to quakes has been running these say snakes station in russia's far is over twenty years now but even for him friday's events came as a painful and vivid reminder he and his old friend survived an earthquake of similar intensity in civilian and nine hundred ninety five they don't need t.v. reports to know what the people of japan are experiencing now. it was a sustained sense of vertigo ceilings were caving in the first thing i did i rushed to my daughters i grabbed the older one while my wife took our newborn rushed into the street thank god we're live on the first floor. yuri too was lucky to back

years quickly but dozens of their friends were buried alive. in the innocent and have to go to these were in a car with us we arrived and there was nothing but time was no longer women start hauling in their fists and can say a word used to be streets with houses have been turned into just full of shit. then if you go risk earthquake was russia's most destructive in one hundred years over two thousand people died the town was never a built but the sea snake station was real and it was shut down shortly after the collapse of the soviet union and yuri was left without charge but the earthquake changed all that not only was the station reinstated dozens of new ones had been built these times moscow calls yuri several times a day. we're always on high alert hopefully better than the americas our

stations was the first to report. so quickly felt insecure leaners this is the closest part of russia to japan and while a tsunami threat has receded there is no relief for the people here but the danger now one of nuclear catastrophe everyone here understands that in the worst case scenario it will take a radioactive cloud less than an hour to reach the coast of russia exiting the direction of our t.v. from the sea region or we are following all the continuing developments in japan since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country the natives we're getting is that fears are increasing of a nuclear meltdown of the reactor. power plant was hit by an explosion with a major concern is radio active. carmel's after reports of damage to one of the containment levels protecting one of the. has increasing radiation levels on

our a detector throughout the country including in the council take you readings at the front gate of the power station on tuesday morning so three years worth of naturally occurring radiation is it being emitted within a single hour the explosion at the sites were triggered by friday's earthquake and tsunami. how could they be two thousand five hundred people dead and more than seventeen thousand existing but that number is expected to rise dramatically the situation is worse than ones will realize the double tragedy also damaged the cooling systems of a new clogged and it is happening using cebu water to cool the reactors at the complex in an attempt to of but not found will be following this story all day long here on r.t. you say to stay with us for the latest updates the temperature more news from japan in just a few moments. the

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