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they say you either embrace japan or you reject it to do either adapt giving up your culture or you remain a stranger, a poor geiger. i'm a journalist. i've lived in japan for more than 30 years. i love and hate this country. i know it and i ignore it, i accept it and i oppose it as if it were my own country. i can happily sleep on to tommy, but i cannot give up some of my old and healthy habits, such as my coffee above all. and we never get used to earthquakes. i live on the 6th floor of an old building and every time there is $1.00 fee from small one. it makes me panic.

with if i would have been at room at 2 46 pm on the 11th of march, 2011. i would pay a lot of gentle here though. i don't that amount the from field with the but up is on mine. those he's whether been approved whether i've been, i've been when i came up with someone that took them as well, i got that letter from. do you know off that i'm out a do you sheet of it out of them a bonnie chin? i think you, i think with the one on my go to law, look again we're open 10. that said that i did not. i'm

a to run here. okay. good. because you on the back and i realized that we have survived the largest earthquake ever recorded in japan. nice degree on the richter scale at the epicenter east of the country and felt it as a magnitude for utopia. he then the salami arrives. a long 400 miles is a coast of to home. some places exceeds 30 meters and reaches up to 6 to 7 kilometers can whole region beautiful with its wooden plastic aluminum houses gets invaded quickly and swallowed by water.

ah . mm reactors have shut down so they're no longer generating. it's hard to believe the 1st deaf taurus report, so few known victims. and it's hard to believe those who say that nuclear power plants are safe or serious situation. he's pushing my dia, nuclear power plant, one of the 19 facilities existing in the country location 300 kilometers ne, tokyo. 6 it's owned by tip code, one of the 10 electricity companies of its kind, with its 6 nuclear power reactors. the power plant is one of the most important nuclear facilities in the world and considered one of the safest nuclear stations

in spite of its 40 years during the endless minutes earthquake, the power reactors in operation. 1235 sakes automatically stop and the operators activate the security procedures. the earthquake hates the cloud. todd, the high voltage mass full. and the cross station is isolated from the national electric supply. emergency diesel generates 10 on board to magically providing electricity to the cooling systems, which have the task of reducing heat inside the pro reactors once they have stopped working. barely an hour after the earthquake, a wave of 14 me, his devastates the nuclear power plant. crossing over the damn built the protection of the nuclear plant against waves of 6 meters maximum height. in a few minutes, the water fills all the technical rooms,

damaging the emergency generators located in the underground basement to workers drown without any tricity or monitoring indicators are out abuse. nobody knows what is happening inside the reactors. and the magnitude of the emergency is not clear. type coast top managers are abroad to promote japanese nuclear technology and the news broadcast my television is 2 contradictory. to be true. i have to do something. i called the manager, but the phone and the internet aren't working anymore to reactivate electricity in the control panels, the plant director muscle yoshi death or does the work is to extract the batteries from their cars and sands, others to buy batteries in the nearest supermarket? the workers succeed in restoring the electrical power of the panels in the control

room. but the internal pressure indicated that the reactors reveal the situation in all its gravity. if they don't act immediately, 3 reactors may explode. in order to decrease pressure, you need to release the radioactive gas that has accumulated inside the reactors. but in order to do so, ted combs asked the prime minister for permission. now tell can, who is also an engineer gives the green light. the circuits do not have enough power to open the vows. manual opening seems to be the only option, but the related procedures are not set out in the instruction manual. ah, i feel like normally not a need here are not 5. you know, god welcome. you also need any open eyes. dental hygiene. it's the 1st time that the japanese government has the k, the new came in to say that we all remember the accident, a in the even oxy green at cherry, 1999 with

a 100 people i contaminated of course i remember joe came water i gave the news of the accident, 3 days later, and the death told an injury only 10 days later. few in tokyo, there have been neither significant damages nor any victims. people aren't panicking and they start getting ready to spend the night. public places offices at friends, houses are in the open air is already up to the set up was much in my stuff because if you didn't that the soda we spoke with, what did it but what i put the number that is so each of the vehicle is that gonna cost you the answer to that data?

i don't know what to do. i can stay in tokyo where i would probably receive more news. no. it's better to try to get dokie walkie by car to come close to the damage nuclear power plant. nothing in the roads are blocked and the nuclear power construction and vice versa. perhaps a lot of people are trying to reach the north to obtain news of their relatives. even the railway work is interrupted. the country displayed and i have to go back to tokyo and try to catch a plane to akita the only way to get the full tissue is from the opposite side. oh ah, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people,

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ah alarmed by tiptoes long silence can wants to understand clearly the gravity of the situation he arrives the nuclear disaster sight. he takes charge, sending a team of workers to manually open the valve, having evacuated the population within a radius of 3 kilometers. the controlled release of radioactive vapor seems to be the acceptable solution. people start to believe that the worst phase of the emergency is now over a year. but in order to understand what's happening, i needed to go back to my school days. revisit some physics and the lessons on how

your power plant works. fukushima de cheese reactor type, general electric model of 1978. when an operation is like an enormous pressure saucepan, the nucleus contains bars of fuel made of uranium, the fission of uranium nuclear produces radioactive adams, which continue to generate residual heat for days after the reactors arrest. the heat in the reactors core is generated by nuclear fission. boiling water produces steam, which goes directly to the turbines and rotates them to produce electricity. the condensed then goes back into the reactor. mm. the extraction and replacement of the fuel is usually performed by means of an overhead crane acting between the reactor pool and the adjacent one. during this operation, the 2 pools are completely flooded. the transfer of fuel rods is performed under water through a common gate that works like

a valve. keeping the fuel isolated from the environment and refrigerated at every stage is therefore a matter of fundamental security. and this is obtained through different containment barriers. designed a bit like a metro raska. the 1st barrier is the capsule of iron, the core of the reactor. the 2nd barrier is the shell of reinforced concrete. the walls of the building of the last barrier between the reactor and the atmosphere. ah, at 3 46 pm on the 12th of march cameras, document a huge explosion that shatters the top of react to building number one and seriously injures food workers. among the operators at fukushima, diety, and the watching world panic escalades. fortunately,

the 1st recognizance shows only the top of the building has exploded. not the reactor which seems to be still intact. but got the line, the brother also there was the law. george all he got there or the mother. i drive without stopping until dawn. when i find myself in case and no soon, army is spared only a few reinforced concrete buildings. the rest has been wiped out, wrung out and regurgitated without any order or restraint. when at about a quarter to ensure the letter that are $30000.00 or possibly to jordan, it. i called her side law. she taught soon, i think, was the hulu with them all for our kids cinema. m a to own a heat up at cs got better than that. i looked the magazine already master inquisitive america. that was it,

that agenda the selfish and that i've been out in the summer. so by the cod inhabiting seat to solve their problems, rather than questioning the nuclear emergency, fukushima is still far away. in every sense the pressure in the react is increases again. they must be cold and stabilized in order to avoid the worst possible outcomes due to the lack of fresh water. the use of sea water seems to be the only solution. but it means the irreversible damage of all reactors muscle yoshida, director of the nuclear power plant was the one to make the difficult decision in direct violation of tip cose orders, which were in favor of saving the expensive reactors from the corrosive effects of salt. i didn't reach fukushima now, i came back here to

a key tom and i'm afraid for the 1st time. ah, it right to stay. it's a family, an elite 5 children, some right to risk it. i trust this government, especially the prime minister. but the problem is can this government trust pepco and the nuclear industry out there was a simple and honest person who would never allow the contamination of his people. i decide to call him directly taking advantage of our old friendship. i can't reach him when i cannot talk to him or i have to address a delicate matter. i get in contact with his wife. oh, feel this. ah, yes, i'm with bison dead in chicago newman,

i had to go get to go to mean mean like i think in this young man a, on a few to she medina, she nuclear plant. they realized that a cool of react as 12, and 3 had already been damaged in a desperate move, the government sends a team of specialized firemen in an attempt to curve the most severe situation. the one in the 3rd reactor, the men have hardly arrived when a massive explosion destroys the whole up a part of the building, 3,

also involving building fool. ah, some of the embassies are stoking fear irresponsibly. most of the foreign press exaggerates, scorch omits, are often it invents fat. americans minimized the accident. the french born of an inevitable, apocalypse reactors that are used in fukushima and the rest of japan are made in the united states. and the american industry intends to continue with their business enterprise. on the other hand, france would like to salad state of the art reactors, which they say are safe. the only official sources i know are the japanese national agency for nuclear safety that is more similar to us censorship agency and the international agency for tomic imaging, for atomic energy. the only thing that can help me understand is going directly to

the power plant. a final call to talk with cameras reveal a 3rd powerful explosion. the building of react to, to the walls remain intact. but a part of the react to suffer serious damage. tapco abandons all hope of saving the situation and considers the possibility of evacuating on its employees. now til can decides to go personally to the headquarters in tokyo and force is the president she meet, so not to abandon the ship. doing so would imply the uncontrolled meltdown of all reactors. thus putting the very existence of japan at risk with

hulu. you know which you find it difficult to maintain the constant awareness that behind every broken window, every destroyed car and every upturned out there lies the story. if a person of a family of an entire country, it was a will well up with here you have no peace. if you know that the loved one was not accepted, were the last to work and still wanders in the world, which is no longer part. they watch over the bodies washed and dressed them with care could make upon them after choosing, auspicious day for the coronation, yet ready, by placing the most prized possessions next to them. finally proceeding to the right of chicago. so, the delicate,

meticulous right of collecting the bones in the urns. it's such an intense moment. oh, is she caught so ritual is celebrated also. ah, ah. but the same mammy also cause the suspension of cream nations for lack of feel like it. it was necessary to resort to collective burials which to the japanese are considered as sad in effect

with the sooner he swept everything away including the right to feel paid to remember on the deck. i thought it was fe she'd oak that's it then shallow gilt gul not you'll dial you to send them on the outer court dole and p conky shallow didn't yelling yardy he died at lunchtime on the 16th of march.

the emperor takito is speaking with a live broadcast. it's the 1st parent that an emperor uses television to speak directly to the people are those who remember his father and burritos, dramatic speech on the radio, announcing the end of the war. now japan is fighting for the life of its people. as it did back with tapco, pressured by the government takes its decision about 50 men are left there to deal with the situation. they operate in extreme conditions separated from the rest of the world, contaminated by radiation without any news from family members affected by the tsunami. they fight to cool reactors, restore electricity and security systems. often by means of luck

it's time to decide what to do. and in a hurry, the majority of my italian and foreign colleagues have already left the country and move to the south. even if i wanted to go back in tokyo airports are now closed or plot in case the situation worse and i would feel safer here in the north, protected by mountain range rather than in tokyo or, or sucker where the wind would propel the radioactive cloud. as for a possible speedy escape from makita, you can fly directly to korea or by car you can easily reach the island of full tried and from the capital city of support. you can get to the entire world. ah

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with me ah, the headlines are naughty, international as thousands of protesters take to the streets in moldova, demanding the country's leader resign as authorities clamped down on the wave of demonstrators. the continues to converge and the countries capital. beijing appointed new defense minister who also happens to be under us sanctions. countries president eugene king makes history being elected for a 3rd consecutive. also ahead for you long time regional rivals, iran and saudi arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations on reopen their embassies. it's a big move with significant implications. as a multi polar world continues to bloss. i'm still to come just