well this year he seeks to destroy the ski lift you can see if. you visit. new clear meltdown of fears of a whirlwind trip to a novel. called love and it's not just realises that responding to a fire and explosion the way you treat your world is a hell. of a horror to say radiation levels may one of the reactors and dangerous to cuba help people towards one of the key containment levels protecting one of the reactors as the new damage from under around two hundred pounds and i have now been evacuated from the surrounding area. authorities have confirmed they need two thousand five hundred people said states i'm one of the three thousand and six council

adequate and devastating tsunami that hit northeastern japan and. countries around the world will help to japan hit by natural are not made catastrophes some experts say this is another example of how mankind's on april the progress of science citing it will spill in the gulf of mexico as. a very warm welcome to you this is our scene live from moscow japan's prime minister has addressed the nation as fears intensify a possible nuclear disaster at a power plant struck hard last friday's kind of strong quake and tsunami the company running the focus shiva facility has admitted a meltdown. as

a possibility following the explosions around the complex a thirty kilometer no fly zone has been imposed over the site there are also fears of a radioactive leak downwards to one of the same levels protecting the. increasing radiation levels are now being detected throughout the country including in the capital hero meetings of the fund to gauge how station tuesday morning show is not a trick pairing waiting patiently is being emitted within a single hour explosions at the side taking place since friday's earthquake and tsunami damage the cooling systems there were several people have been injured in the blast almost one hundred fifty people have been exposed to radiation engineers using seawater to cool the reactor complex to avert nuclear meltdown i've been it it's been a hundred kilometers to the plant to the tokyo electric all the situation he has

got a lot more serious. and not just the fukushima power plant but the whole country actually we're heading straight for all the foreign journalists and journalists crews we've come across this morning are looking for suspects if they can get and try to get the facts right but it is very real now. down at the fukushima plant and a major radiation. country already. measured small amounts of. french embassies warn that. radiation treatment. hours. three hundred kilometers south of st. so on and so. we've come across that in for the actually. doing the online district around britain. morning it was one or two previously increased sister was it a four reaction number for. you. fuel rods and what's significant about this is.

normally a reactor the ground said and the fuel rods which should contain radioactive substances this one hundred seven hundred eighty three the much greater potential of a serious radiation leak managed to put the fire out right now parts of the brain still very serious because the explosion early this morning again in a previously in tanks nuclear reactor that actually damaged the container and that prompted radiation levels around for questioning or to rise to four hundred times for maximum level one normally it's almost a year. and actually prompted the prime minister and the tokyo electric power company for the first time to come out and address the nation and admit possibility of a different intentional meltdown warned residents and it becomes a radius to stay indoors or not to side because if they do they would scarce. sensual. exposure to radiation levels that could be catastrophic so it seems

like we could be on the verge of a major meekly but here in japan it could affect the whole country and potentially spritz a rupture as well. and then going to thank you professor at the international christian you know beth. that he thinks along now in grave danger. there is a serious risk of contamination at this point but the contamination is probably limited to the fukushima area near stories 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 if the level of coolant in the reactor pressure vessel falls below a certain level and the tops of those rods will be exposed to the air there is

a super heating of the air and any water great program on them that causes oxidize ation essentially very rapid rust him which produces hydrogen and hydrogen is what as we have seen as cars the explosions in reactors 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 easily generators which are pumping it's a mixture of seawater and boron that is more work acid but boron in the forecast has a very good neutrons or her so it's good at slowing the reaction down and seawater and boric acid has been pumped into these reactors and those pumps must continue working well the amount of water pressure required in this situation is extremely

high because those reactor cores are so hot as the water hits them it turns very rapidly at the steam and that steam has to be moved away from the reactor rods and more water put into its place so. a constant stream of water has to be maintained. well higher than normal levels of radiation have been detected in the japanese capital but they all fortunately there is no imminent risk to health on the. we do get reports from various sources saying that levels of radiation in tokyo itself could see were two hundred times the norm you know it was mentioned earlier and so it is clear to say this is normal enough to be feared however there are also three four three different for six or seven years and repeated slightly different picture summations. levels are thirty three times higher north of tokyo and. we said earlier it will take around ten hours to provide for in

the real true radioactive fallout to reach the japanese episode so we're looking to possible. significant rise levels around. you know of course the falklands are still waiting for the authorities to come out and maybe make statements the prime minister has already said that everything is being run in order to prevent further review i think weeks and explosions but of course in the circumstances since that was prior to the social service warnings of course in these particular circumstances it is obvious that the public is waiting for the authorities to come out and say something you know this is obviously the situation is dire the relief efforts are continuing all across and you're actually seeing frank there more experience coming from the country just when i was arriving here i first couple of scenes from three thousand members or. twenty five hundred have

been confirmed so far. but just on monday afternoon alone in large towns in the north for japan two thousand two thousand bodies were recovered we can expect the numbers to rise significantly and the next number of the people who died in the service is anything but again the game itself slowing and we will freeze we'll continue to watch and see how many how there is some good change. well start since the quake to pass just a disease on to carry a doctor over jake the russian a p g's gratian is rapidly becoming more dangerous. 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 at the site of plants and there's no truth danger to health or property you know far down red 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 getting further and further out of control each day we wait here in japan to a much more grim situation then the day before and it's 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 to and if that doesn't

reduce panic it just makes people all the more uncertain when they believe they can't trust fully the information they're being given this intuition is very much difficult to control there's no doubt about it you're you have a site there you've had already explosions and significant radioactive releases at the site of the reactors so you're having extremely high levels of radiation in that local area making it extremely difficult for people to conduct the kind of work it may be. well emergency services remain on high alert in russia's far eastern region close to northern japan the danger of a radioactive cloud reaching the area is said to be minimal but that's not something some tourists and foreign workers from feeling that they're in a good job is there for us. after the first reports about yet another explosion at the nuclear power plants were released emergences officials for this surprising

region have been turned supplied chap sport radiation levels here in the civilian region russia's closest policy to japan we talk to representatives of the ministry sometime ago they showed us a car which they quit with professional geiger meters which would measure radiation levels at different places around the city of the car will be raising the city of. so be much use as ministry here assures that as a tuesday morning there is no increase in radiation levels and there is no cause for the residents to climb. and in the worst case scenario. there's no threats to the health of the people radiation readings are at a normal level you know while we know that russia's defense ministry says it is ready to evacuate its its personnel from arlen's which is the closest cause of the region to japan and the residents for example are searching for their personal geiger counters to measure radiation levels we also know from pharmacies that sales

of he or dean have rocketed and people obviously want to make sure that they are well propounds for a possible threat of radioactive a mission in case if there is a nuclear catastrophe in japan probably what we know from what we know from people we've spoken to is that he believes the emergence is ministry of russian there reports about north already asian levels is just that they are not quite sure whether japanese are playing down the throughout all the nuclear catastrophe or not . in a sense that this. is that. they maybe can pick up where you are today one hundred sixty miles or one hundred sixty kilometers away. from the radioactivity was going on. if it can be detected or. if it gives me great concern about what's going on. what's happening to the people there maybe there are also because

the japanese government could be playing it down so that they don't cause a lot of. planes leave the international airport of use no surprise because into the shuttle after what we know there are no edition flights arranged also air companies say that there are no extra demands but from what we see for example now a plane for moscow was about to leave is that there are so many passengers with small children around let's ask them why they decided to leave now. no use i don't know if i am staying but my wife and my child are leaving for mosco it was a planned flight but now that there's a new clear through which we want to send him away anyway your solution is getting usual of course we're always afraid we've been hearing so helene we're always on high alert weeks we have our emergency luggage always packed and some extra cash lying around. you. know people here indeed are not new to natural disasters

such as tsunamis and earthquakes but with a new clear throughout same place it seems that they have to be prepared for the unknown really and a lot depends on the wind it is very crucial so what people should be closely monitoring now is weather forecasts it will take a radioactive cloud if there is an explosion inside a core of a nuclear reactor less than a day to reach this part of russia. just to recap our top story now the situation with nuclear power plant grows ever more time with another blast at the plant reports one of the reactors containment fields have been breached to boggle forty three thirty kilometer radius they fly zone over fukushima nuclear the country's prime minister has addressed the. saying a nuclear meltdown is now possible throughout the country radiation levels are said to be on the rise and traces even now there's hated in tokyo however the government

still insists public health is not out risk out the epicenter of the problem pushing the plant cells readings that show three years worth of naturally occurring radiation is being emitted within a single hour the plants have been thrown into crisis since friday's devastating quake and tsunami which knocked out cooling systems and all three of its working reactors have knobs and not by explosions several people have been injured in the blast far more than one hundred fifty people have been exposed to radiation. or japan's economy is facing its biggest challenge since world war two after being hit by one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history although the quake skeery bypassed japan's industrial heartland the shock waves have been felt the business sector all for more details are now joined by our present and your book over a year this is the second business day since the earthquake and tsunami to see just

how much of an impact it all having on the markets all those who say it is a big challenge for japan it's courage to make a forecast as to how long the problems with laws and what we can say is that. significant losses power supply is critical in the country firms like got to listen to stop production because with a little not fifty four prostrations out of action there are simply running out of energy carmakers should builders and technology companies worldwide a short of supply is after the disaster well and that is for jeopardizing the exporting powerhouse and also disrupting the global manufacturing chain transportation is also a fact that ports sustained major damage with most of them out of a. ration for months and damage to all of our nurses causing hughes petrol cancer and some commentators are already describing what's happening on the markets as

a market pressure prime minister statement that a substantial amount of radiation was leaking from a nuclear power plant was followed by a message selloff on the stock exchange as investors were trying to guess how badly major companies could be hit and let me quote something as the nikkei setting just under eleven percent this hour this was its second slump in two days and hong kong's hang seng is also lower about three percent and that's about seven hundred points and the bank of japan has another ninety eight billion dollars into the financial system to help stabilize the country's economy comes a day after the bank injected fifteen trillion into the economy to europe investor sentiment and we are monitoring the situation closely and we'll be bringing you more in an hour's time. many thanks for that update on how events in japan are affecting the world's markets if you think we'll have more from you shortly. russia

has been pledging help and support to stricken japan sending crews the emergency workers and aid and this is the first earthquake triggered blasts occurred. more moscow's involvement. russia has sent a number of emergency ministry personnel to japan and they're working in a number of locations we know that a lot of them have already arrived in japan and have basically brought every kind of gear with them to be completely honest independent for at least two weeks that everything of. substance basically necessary to help the people that are in. that assistance or side to look for survivors that may still trapped under the rubble also know that my mother has left moscow yesterday that's monday heading that large with our agent and those

a person now will deal specifically with that the radiation affected areas so all in all the emergency ministry is expected to have at least a hundred people working in japan doing everything necessary everything in their power to give assistance where it may be needed as most russia knows firsthand experience how difficult it is and how horrifying is to deal with the aftermath of the radiation the accident at the chernobyl power plant has left the country devastated of course and many mistakes have already been gleaned from that experience including one very bitter lesson that perhaps not everything is under human control as my colleagues here says came here find out it was a frail old experiment that led to history's biggest nuclear disaster in april ninety ninety six the chernobyl reactor exploded as a result of the wrong individuals being in the wrong place at the wrong time and

the. like they had very poor knowledge of the physics of the reactor they knew the manual and want to punish. the nothing of the reactor physics the personnel draw the reactor into st it was out of control while the earth or its. he's clearly knew who to blame for the fall out even the soviet union's top scientists were at a loss as to what to do in the days that catastrophe unfolded. as a remission free will this was something unseen before a nuclear power station with flames and smoke a quarter of a century on history seems to be repeating in japan despite the authorities claims there of having the situation on the control the fukushima nuclear power plant has already seen pick splosion and that's despite advanced safety systems which the chernobyl reactor never had been your. quick reaction was

completely false he means. the reactors have. been this is very. clean and we. see the decent do you agree 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 the technology is dead he told. the society that government regulators believe that technology can be operated safely but there's a built in psychological complacency if you're operating something so inherently dangerous when you go to work every day do you keep thinking about how dangerous that technology is that would be over tying rather damaging psychologically so in

other words the convinced 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 over reliance and technology can be a dangerous friend and one mishandled can strike in disastrous fashion we have always seen this with these caltech major electors asters you remember last year there was a massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico again you had a very competent famous company that seemed to know what it was doing but they simply haven't planned for conjuncture conditions that would create a disaster so this is the human condition we simply are able it seems to handle these technologies were probably not ready for the nightmare that the chernobyl reactor became was eventually sealed off within a massive concrete tomb called the circle forgets the catastrophe provided valuable

lessons in how to deal with a reactive 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 alexey russia's ski r.t. . well so noble may have been the worst nuclear disaster in history but is just one of a number similar to the latest japanese nuclear crisis in seven minutes time we talked to a former u.s. attorney general who had to deal with a similar nuclear most of the night in seventy nine he says that one of the most serious stepparents in some situations there's a lot of cohesive information. what's most scary is that we can't get ahold of the facts i know that very well from my time as governor at the time the three mile island was terribly frustrating you could not get a grip on what precisely the facts were people were telling you more than they knew

or less than they knew self-appointed experts kept showing up and the company that ran the plant was a very poor source of information they misrepresented certain facts or so we had to do was operate really as investigators and constantly go back to people for their version of the facts and then put that together with the with everyone else and. what we are following all the continuing development in japan since i'm a massive earthquake and tsunami struck country the latest we're getting is that fears are increasing all the nuclear meltdown ought to. react to out of the question when the power plant was hit by an explosion wall japan has reportedly now told the international atomic energy agency that the facility is releasing radioactive materials into the atmosphere the major concern is

a radioactive leak and that comes after reports of damage to one of the key containment levels protecting one of the reality is increasing radiation levels are now being detected throughout the country including in the capital take kids readings at the front gates of the power station on tuesday morning show three years worth of knots. current radiation is being emitted within a single hour its closure that was cited triggered by friday's earthquake and tsunami. have confirmed nearly five hundred people dead and three thousand missing but that number is expected to rise dramatically as a generation has worsened once with origins realize the double tragedy also damaged the cooling systems but focus shima nuke plants engineers have been using sea water to cool the reactors at the complex in an attempt to avert a nuclear meltdown we'll be following this story all day long here on r.t.c. to say without all the latest developments. and

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