The maximum global nuclear inspector said Saturday that Japan was "still far from the end of the accident" at his compound in Fukushima, reported The New York Times.
Fukushima Tokyo fails to tame
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, for its acronym in English) warned that the emergency could last for weeks or even months. Amano spoke to the Times by telephone from Vienna, where its headquarters, Reuters reported.
criticizes Japan nuclear plant operator
radiation levels have risen in the seawater near the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi, Japanese officials said Saturday, while engineers struggle to stabilize the station Energy two weeks after being struck by an earthquake and a tsunami.
On Thursday, three workers were burned in the reactor number 3, after having been exposed to radiation levels 10,000 times higher than those usually found there.
Amano, who according to the Times recently made another trip to Japan, said authorities still are not sure if the cores of the reactors and spent fuel would have been covered with water for cooling.
The director told the newspaper he saw a few "positive signals" to restoration of electrical power to the plant. But, he added, "should be made more efforts to complete the accident", but stressed he was not criticizing the response of Japan. Amano
Japan is a former diplomat who took command of the IAEA in late 2009, when Argentina's government did not support the candidate, Rogelio Pfirter, for his vision "pro-American."
He said his biggest concern is focused on used fuel rods that are discovered in the cooling pools open at the top of the reactor buildings. Amano
was not sure whether they were successful efforts spraying water in swimming pools to prevent the rods will burn and release large amount of radioactive material.
If the pools are filled with water, but do not repair the cooling system "temperature rise," said Amano, raising the threat of new radioactive leaks.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is located about 240 kilometers north of the capital, Tokyo.
.- In planning their protection against a tsunami, the directors of the now damaged Japanese nuclear plant dismissed scientific evidence that a giant wave could damage their facilities, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Excess confidence shown by the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) was derived from a series of overly optimistic assumptions which concluded that the Earth could not release the amount of force that sparked two weeks ago that put the complex of six reactors at Fukushima Dai- ichi the brink of multiple mergers.
Instead of reactors remain dry, like watching the most catastrophic outcome of the company, the plant was flooded with a water level much higher than that TEPCO said it could arrive, according to an analysis by The Associated Press made from documents, records and statements by investigators, the company and the national security agency nuclear.
And while TEPCO and government officials have said that nobody could have predicted a tsunami as large, there is ample evidence that waves of that size had already beaten the northeast coast of Japan, and could occur again along the responsible geological fault, which runs from north to south about 350 kilometers (220 miles) east of the plant.
TEPCO managers claim that they had a good system of protection against tsunamis, but gave no further details because, they said, were concentrated in the present nuclear crisis. The
is clear is that the managers of important readings of TEPCO ruled by a network GPS units showing that the two tectonic plates that created the failure were strongly "coupled" over hundreds of kilometers. The more contact and stiffness between the plates has more tension builds up, experts say, and that tension can be released violently in an earthquake.
This evidence, published in scientific journals for a decade, reveals the presence a fault capable of creating the violent earthquake and tsunami € "finally came.
To make matters worse, TEPCO made its tsunami simulation with his own computer program instead of using an internationally validated method.
also the company's engineers decided to make their predictions without taking into account earthquakes before 1896, which removed a major earthquake that occurred over 1,000 years ago, an earthquake followed by a powerful tsunami that hit many of the same locations that hit the two weeks ago.
presented TEPCO A reassessment of just four months ago concluded that the water pushed by a tsunami would not rise more than 5.7 meters (18 feet) once you hit the coast of complex Fukushima Dai-ichi.
The reactor is located in a small cliff, between 4.3 and 6.3 meters (14 and 23 feet) above the maximum water level forecast by the company, according to a presentation made in November by the civil engineer Makoto Takao, TEPCO said during a conference on earthquake safety in Japan.
"We test and confirm the safety of nuclear plants," said Takao.
However, the wall of water that hit the coast two weeks ago, rose 8.2 meters (27 feet) above the prediction of TEPCO.
The flood broke down the backup power generators located in basements or in the early stages, putting in danger the nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools
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