Radioactive water continued to seep into the sea Monday after an attempt missed to seal the leak at the plant in Fukushima crippled nuclear plant using an absorbent polymer, sawdust and shredded paper.
Responsible for the Tokyo Electric Power Co. believe that flight was coming from an 8-inch crack in pit of concrete with power cables near reactor No. 2. Monday, said Tepco that it would use a dye in an attempt to trace the path of the leak, Kyodo News reported. Radiation in well water levels are a millisieverts 1000 estimated per hour, a high but not immediately lethal dose.
Engineers also plans to begin the injection of nitrogen gas in reactor No. 1, 2 and 3 to prevent possible explosions by the accumulation of hydrogen gas. Explosions in three reactors in the first four days after the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami that accompanies March 11 has severely damaged the reactor buildings and disabled cooling pumps that provided water for the reactors. Officials say could take months to fully restore the cooling systems.
Official record of the Japan of the disaster topped 12,000 Sunday and approximately 25 000 American and Japanese soldiers completed a three-day intensive recovery effort. Situated research 78 bodies, but more than 15 000 people are still officially listed as missing. About 160 000 survivors remain in shelters.
To the Japan of the Red Cross and the Community Chest Central the Japan collected more than 1 billion do not yet have distribution of any money directly to the victims, which prompted the Secretary General of Government Yukio Edano to urge Sunday that the acceleration of the process.
A spokesman for the Red Cross, Miyoko Kawamura, replied that payments would probably begin this month.
Edano said that the Government would were independent experts re-test the soil around the Fukushima nuclear plant to reassess whether current evacuation orders must be changed. The Government said residents living in 12 kilometres from the plant to evacuate and called for those living within 18 miles leave or to stay at least indoors as much as possible.
The Government is under pressure of groups, including Greenpeace, to expand its evacuation area, but at the same time, residents who left the 12 mile zone were to request the authorization to return briefly to their homes to collect personal items. Officials of the latter days showed no signs of movement in both directions, and Edano said Sunday the current order will last a long time, although he admitted that it was "tough on the residents."
Edano said that the Government had checked thyroid function of 900 children up to age 15 in two villages Iitate and Kawamata, just outside the 18 miles perimeter, and none has shown signs of exposure to high levels of radiation. High levels of radiation were detected in water and on the grass in Iitate. Edano said that it was the third time that the Government had conducted tests on children in the areas outside the zone of 18 miles.
The Red Cross has sent more than 200 emergency relief teams to the disaster area and organized thousands of volunteers to help the victims. But no displaced persons have not yet received cash payments from the pot of more than $ 1 billion collected by the Japanese Red Cross and Red Crescent and the community chest the Japan Central.
In past disasters in the Japan, independent panels in each prefecture determined who gets the aid and to what extent. Edano suggests that this time, the process must be simplified.
"Normally donations are paid by the Governments of the which rely on independent committees to decide on the conditions for dividing the money," said Edano. "But this time, the central Government has a role to play to set up an independent Committee" that will come to understand how to split donations.
Tomohide Atsumi, President of the Nippon Volunteer Network Active in disaster, said that the Red Cross has "a policy of fairness and places a high value on equality, and that it takes time to assess damages.
However, he said, donations to non-profit often groups get going immediately. Atsumi, said that his organization used funds collected right after the disaster to buy underwear and other supplies for disaster relief and a bus of volunteers to help victims in the northeast of the Charter.
Overall, he said, Japan is still learning how to find the right balance between the order and approach more free-form in its disaster relief efforts. Overly on the organisation and decision-making from top to bottom, he said, probably prevented more volunteers to visit the disaster zone more quickly.
"Drive that will be organized is very strong in our society, but people are not good at improvising socially," he said. "I like to use the metaphor of classical music and jazz." Our traditional disaster is like classical music - there is a conductor, a large Orchestra, a room of fantasy. Disaster relief should be more like jazz - you can do something with a trumpet player, a drummer. You do not need a whole orchestra. ?
As the disaster area became more accessible, the experts are learning more about the size and strength of massive tsunami.
A group of researchers led by Yoshinobu Tsuji, of the Institute of the University of Tokyo earthquake research studied the devastated nearby Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. They found evidence that waves could be as high as 124 feet, according to public broadcaster NHK. That would make the highest waves hitting the shore North-East of the Japan since 1896, when the waves of the tsunami recorded in the Ofunato were 125 feet high.
"This tsunami was comparable to the tsunami [1896] - and it could be larger,"Tsuji said."".
Julie.MAKINEN@LAtimes.com
Hall special correspondent is. Personal time, writer Thomas h. Maugh II in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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