new pin meltdown fears grow in japan on to a knowledge of loss of the fukushima power plant and it's not just reactors at risk on after a fire an explosion where used fuel rods are held it's. thoreson say radiation levels near wall of the reactors on dangerous to human health as well ports one of the key containment levels protecting one of the reactors in damage around two hundred pounds of meat longer than all the surrounding our. authorities have could lead to two thousand and five hundred people dead so far and

their ultimate three thousand on the side of the powerful earthquake in a devastating tsunami that hit the northeast and just pummeled finds a country around the world offer help to japan by not till i'm not make attempts to feed as some experts say this is another example of how mankind's on able to handle the progress of science science in the oil spill in the gulf of mexico on channel. a very warm welcome to you this is our seed live from also with me alice said that our top story now japan's prime minister has addressed the nation is is intensifying about a possible nuclear disaster and a power struggle on fridays catastrophic earthquake and tsunami the country has also reports. and he told the international atomic energy agency that is atomic

plant is now releasing radioactive materials into the atmosphere of the company running the focus is that he has admitted a meltdown is a possibility following the explosions out the complex a third long as a no fly zone has been imposed over the site they're also fears of a radioactive leak reports of damage to one of the key taman levels protecting the reactor increasing radiation levels are now being detected throughout the country cruising in the capital tokyo readings of the france gauge the power station on tuesday morning showed three years naturally occurring radiation is being emitted within a single hour the explosions at the site have taken place since friday's earthquake and tsunami damage the cooling systems several people have been injured in the blast one will go one hundred fifty people have been exposed to radiation engineers using seawater to cool the reactors of the complex to avert nuclear meltdown i

would bet it isn't one hundred kilometers of the fukushima claude's. well the situation it has got a lot more. not just the plant but the whole country actually heading straight for the for all the foreign journalist journalist crews we've come across this morning and looking for a fix if they can get and try to get the facts right but it is a very real now of a nuclear meltdown at the fukushima plant and a major radiation leak could affect the whole country already when. they've measured small amounts of radioactive substances in the french embassy has warned that. the radiation could it take you in ten hours and that three hundred kilometers south of the. ones we've come across it in for the exit now we're doing things very unwise to stick around because. this morning at the

fukushima plant. previously in fact we had a sister who was headed for the reactor number four which is used to house used fuel rods and what's significant about this is. normally a reactor there and seventy fuel rods which contain radioactive substances this one hundred seven hundred eighty three in the much greater potential of a serious radiation leak managed to put the fire out there and now. it's very serious because the explosion early this morning again in a previously in tanks nuclear reactor actually promise that container and that prompted radiation levels around for christina to rise to four hundred times for maximum level one normally it's almost a year. actually prompted the prime minister and the tokyo electric power company for the first time to come out and address the nation and possibility of a potential nuclear meltdown they've warned residents and becomes the radius to

stay indoors or not to go outside because they believe they were scarce. sensual. exposure to radiation levels that could be catastrophic so it seems like we could be on the verge of a major meekly disaster here in japan that could affect our whole country and potentially scripture oxer as well. chrysippus in that place in the international question universe. but these people are now in grave danger of exposure serious risk of contamination of this point the contamination is probably limited to the fukushima 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 a geographical area around the plant you tories are having to focus on the reactors

whose temperatures are the highest and that may require the conversion and 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 and 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 aim which produces hydrogen and that hydrogen is what as we have seen as caused 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 there are a number of fire trucks of fire emergency vehicles pumping water into these exposed or damaged reactor buildings these pumping trucks have to continue working there are also diesel generators which are pumping it's a mixture of seawater and boron that is more or acid boron in the forecast that is 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. but it's very difficult for normal people to imagine the amount of crash or water pressure that's required in this situation we think of high pressure water is coming out of a garden hose or a 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 returns very rapidly and the steam and steam has to be moved away from the reactor rods and warm water into its place so a constant stream of water has to be maintained. well higher than normal levels of radiation out in detail in the on the capital with the author of the missing there is imminent risk to health our correspondent there isn't safe for us but in the world i think still they're saying about the rising levels of radiation in the capital. well the latest that we have been getting from the japanese officials is that they did acknowledge that the radiation levels were to be raised of course following the explosion but they did say that there will not be a significant rise in the radioactive materials in air however we have to keep in mind that reports are coming from various prefectures from around the entire

country and in one region just north of so kill levels of education in just four hours ago or so ready were thirty three times more than the norm of we also have to remember that. the levels of radiation in japanese capital were expected to rise well as such awards the evening so we're thinking where we should be looking at significant arrive raise. in the next couple of hours since it is early evening in tokyo right now. the rest of the country is concerned of course there is still no there is still no definite reports and one cannot judge exactly what is happening to the levels of. radiation but they are significantly higher than the norm as he had said previously especially around. the scene of the explosion in the i think the power. of the country's been assessing the damage cools by the quake

and tsunami do we know what's happening in some of the rescue operation in the country. well as far as the rescue operation is concerned they are poor and rescue workers coming into the country. i have seen them with my own eyes when i arrived in tokyo i have you know it seems from south korea actually on their way to tokyo they have a right with us at the same time but of course you also have to we also have to point out one interesting thing and that is the fact that all with. the nuclear disaster everybody has stopped talking or mentioning of the. the fact that rescue operations really should be still undergoing i mean we have become so he has survived a manger earthquake which has been upgraded where. the higher category has survived the tsunami there are still people missing just a reminder twenty five hundred have been. least three thousand are missing but the

numbers could be a lot higher and you also have to remember the fact that the aftershocks are still continuing we have them on our own throughout the day today in fact when we were at the airport the ground was still shaking it was about three or so so if you would have after announcing that despite the fact that the western media especially seem to focus on nuclear disaster for understandable reasons they rescue our efforts are still going on because obviously we asked the man of the earthquake and the tsunami are very very hard to overestimate what's the feeling among the people and take care at the moment is that panic to people feel that being given all of the necessary information. well i would not say that there is any panic whatsoever in fact it seems to me that course there are a lot more people on the streets with you know. covering their faces i don't know

if that would actually help in terms of radiation or if they're just trying to protect them from the pollution but i would say the feeling on the streets is calm and i would even read to go as far as to say need a lot of people are choosing to stay indoors now and those who are out there walking to and fro work i mean they're just not just concerned with their health or really have nerves of steel but really there is no sense of urgency on the streets i don't know whether that has to do with cultural. culture traits or maybe it's because we are listening in the japanese capital we are listening and believe in the government by the same time we also have to remember that with thousands of people being evacuated lens of thousands of people being that it is. a city their power plants maybe the situation will change especially you also have to remember that we we're still waiting for further information from the government regarding

the levels of radioactivity of radiation in the japanese capital of the moment and maybe those levels that will be raised in. the sense of urgency in the rise as well however right now everything seems to be calm people seem to gather control and going about their days. as normal as it would be in these circumstances when as you say people are. visions listening to the information coming out from the gulf and from what you've been hearing how it took people in taking. the government's handling of this crisis do you think that they think they've acted appropriately and with enough knowledge and see that they've moved quickly enough on all of this . well i believe that there is some sense that some people are closer to. see because that is where the government is i think we will probably will be more likely to agree with the governments and of course there have been suggestions and

stories by various international observers who did say that japan was prepared for this kind of disaster and they had to act as quickly and urgently and importance and did the best they could in given circumstances however people in northern parts of the country believe that the government is not telling the truth and of course they are there in. the most not just by not just the explosions at the power of be our nuclear power plant but also gave them the hardest hit by this is not me and so you kind of have a true graphical division which does make sense because the closer to the government. probably the more likely we are to believe the government and be satisfied with their actions and vice versa the further away they are the less likely the government will be extracting influence over them so i would say that is the situation that we're looking at right now. many thanks for. speaking to us from

. well five days since the quake put to pounds need this in the seas carrying paul conductor upper jacobs from the peace institute that i spoke to at the a says the situation 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 then very very low levels in tokyo and 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 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 down and 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 he had every day we see this issue ation getting further and further out of control each day we wait here in japan to a much more grim situation than the day before and it's it's hard to imagine i think that 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 it 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 had four explosions and significant radioactive releases inside only 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 that may

be used for. well later in the program our team will be bringing you the economic implications of the current designs for civilians in japan or his union with a quick preview for. japan's prime minister's statement that a substantial radiation worst amount of radiation leaking from the country's nuclear power plant was followed by a massive selloff on the chokers stock exchange as investors were trying to guess how badly japanese companies could be hit more later in the program. russian families living in a safe proximity to japan offering temporary foster care to children caught up in the ongoing disaster in russian regions close to the danger zones emergency services remain on high alert although the threat of a radioactive cloud reaching the area is set minimal stopping song taurus and foreign workers from falling. over is that. after the first

reports about yet another explosion at the nuclear power plant were released emergencies officials for this region haven't turned supplied jack sport radiation levels here in the civilian region russia's closest part to japan we talk to representatives of the ministry sometime ago they showed us a car which they quit professional geiger meters which would measure radiation levels at different places around the city of the car will be raising the city of. seoul the much answers ministry here assures that as of tuesday morning there is no increase in radiation levels and there is no cause for the residents to panic. and in the worst case scenario locals can make. home there's no threats to the health of the people radiation readings are at a normal level meanwhile we know that russia's defense ministry says it is ready to

evacuate if its personnel from the coral islands which is because. possibly 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 raw cases and people hold vigorously want to make sure that they are counted for a possible. radioactive a mission in place if there is a nuclear catastrophe in japan from what we know from what we know from people we've spoken to is that the believe the emergence is ministry of russian bear reports about normal radiation levels is just that they are not quite sure whether japanese are playing down the throughout the nuclear catastrophe or not. in a sense that they're playing it down is that. they maybe can pick up where your. hundred sixty miles one hundred sixty plummer's away. from the radioactivity that's

going on on the island if you can because. it gives me great concern about what's going on. what's happening to the people there may be there as well so because the japanese could be playing it down so that they don't cause a lot of. planes leave the international app or. according to the shuttle and from what we know there are no edition of flights arranged also at companies say that there are no extra demands but from what we see for example now a plane for a whole sky was about to leave it there are so many passengers with small children around let's ask them why they decided to leave now. because of course we're always afraid we've been here and somehow we're always on high alert weeks we have our emergency in order to always cranks and some extra cash lying around just in case you have

a strategic view my son was only two years old when the earthquake hit us back in one nine hundred ninety five you have no idea what we went through over two thousand people were killed i do not wish it on anyone i would take him away with me right now so that we could be away from what's happening here. people here indeed are not mutual natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes but with the new clear rattling police it seems that they have to be prepared for the no really and i'm not the pants 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 in the situation the fukushima nuclear power plant grows ever more dire with another blast of the plant and reports that one of the reactors containment fields has been

breached from japanese authorities have reported new confirmed to the international atomic energy agency that radioactive materials are now being released into the atmosphere japan's or thorazine says a thirty kilometer radius no fly zone over the fukushima nuclear plant more the country's prime minister has addressed the nation say a nuclear meltdown is possible we're now getting reports of the cooling system of two more reactors might not be working properly and this is what's led to the previous explosions we've seen throughout the country radiation levels are said to be on the rise with traces even now detected is it however the government still insists public health is not risk at the epicenter of the problem the fukushima plant itself readings that show three years worth of naturally occurring radiation is the miss is within a single hour the plant's been battling a crisis this is friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami which knocked out

cooling systems and all three of its working reactors have been rocked by explosions several people have been injured in the blast one move a hundred and fifty people have been exposed to radiation. well let's talk to go playing. universal not the public should do to try and minimize the effects of possible radioactive contamination many thanks for being with us here r.c.c. just how serious is the threat of radiation if human health how much can we sustain until it's too dangerous. radiation. or will it be a way. to ensure that i have. accumulated. this because from. radiation the cause.

is really born here and would you say that the radiation levels that are being reported around the fukushima plant at the moment have reached those as you put them dangerous levels. well. yes i would. go wherever. those are. all over the country. and what practical steps should people take in order to ensure that they're not affected by the radiation which seems to be spreading further further and. well as you may know the. clinton. station. has been arrested and. within thirty radius people are advised to stay indoors. and in case the need to do so can wear some of the

masks for their skin not to consume food from. work not to consume food reach it has been growing. so common sense measures in the work where you will. also. expect those there were no. and we've also you've been hearing that are being advised to take i had seen. well this is another issue of our very dear is the nature of a product or for our nuclear fuel. it is the propensity of both our thyroid gland club sort. and. so. accumulates in sight already and

a course. will be high to be anything but what will we handle as you go on which i will accident consequences. was the major who for once and. to be in the region or before that of your own parent as of. the servants. who grants. the civil all. national exhibits we share his unit the soup plate plus similarly he will each and every director which will go over there and guess what i did well and what a person do if they have already been affected what kind of help can they see. but also depends on the dogs you suppose some suspect has been affected by a high dose and immediately some were made maybe world or mobile officials

or isn't nearly every. involved in the sort. of preparedness. are read by chill. as the radiation would be nearly a killer measures in body's own police force but the course states or for the people who are reaching the decision or drive screen or. vary a great. university many thanks for speaking to us here on out since it will. are coming up in about twenty minutes time we talk to a former u.s. governor who also had to deal with a nuclear emergency and one hundred seventy nine are we coming back to our main story of course in just a few moments don't go away. wealthy

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