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24th April 2011, 10:32
The governor of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture says Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will not be allowed to resume operations in the damaged nuclear power plant.
"Resumption of plant operations must be impossible," Yuhei Sato said on Saturday.
The devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11 in Japan's northern coast set off nuclear problems by knocking out power to cooling systems of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and caused radiation leaks.
The government ordered the evacuation of people living in a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) radius around the plant, and told people residing between 20 kilometers and 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the plant to remain indoors.
TEPCO has since been struggling to stop radioactive leaks from the plant's damaged reactors.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's special advisor Goshi Hosono said bringing the crisis-hit Fukushima power plant under control may take “several months.”
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has raised the severity level of the situation at Fukushima from 5 to 7 -- the worst on an international scale.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/176352.html
"Resumption of plant operations must be impossible," Yuhei Sato said on Saturday.
The devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11 in Japan's northern coast set off nuclear problems by knocking out power to cooling systems of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and caused radiation leaks.
The government ordered the evacuation of people living in a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) radius around the plant, and told people residing between 20 kilometers and 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the plant to remain indoors.
TEPCO has since been struggling to stop radioactive leaks from the plant's damaged reactors.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's special advisor Goshi Hosono said bringing the crisis-hit Fukushima power plant under control may take “several months.”
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has raised the severity level of the situation at Fukushima from 5 to 7 -- the worst on an international scale.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/176352.html