How Many Lone Pairs Of Electrons Are On Clf2-

Japan faces the nuclear apocalypse

An explosion in reactor number 2 of the Fukushima central causes radioactive elements arrive at Tokyo

"The Japanese authorities have lost control," said Energy Commissioner EU
From Hiroshima to Chernobyl Fukushima through. The world gets to peek into the abyss of a nuclear disaster and once again, it does in Japan. The only country that has suffered in their own flesh the detonation of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War is now facing a very dangerous radioactive leak at the plant in Fukushima, 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. It is already the worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl after the disaster, the plant of the former Soviet Union, spreading a toxic cloud to the north and central Europe and which is still causing cancers and horrendous genetic malformations.
For the third consecutive day yesterday there was an explosion in one of the six reactors at the Fukushima-in this case the number 2 - and a fire broke out at number 4. When firefighters extinguished the fire, they found two cracks eight square meters in the reactor vessel, where they could escape back further escapes. What the hell is happening? "Shouted angry Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, the leaders of the company that operates the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), for the delay in being informed.


These incidents, coupled with the previous day's blasts in the other two reactors, have led to the detection of radioactive elements in Tokyo. Although the authorities insist that pollution levels are low and not pose a health risk in Japan's capital has sparked panic and thousands of people have stockpiled food, water, masks, blankets, sleeping bags, flashlights and candles.


In a dramatic televised speech, the prime minister admitted that "radiation levels have risen considerably" and ordered that the entire population within 30 miles of the plant in Fukushima, about 140,000 people, remain locked in their homes with the windows sealed. According to the Japan Government, the radiation levels near the plant came to be between 100 and 400 times higher than allowed after the escape. "These figures may affect health, there's no doubt," government spokesman acknowledged, Yukio Edan, who then announced that radioactivity had fallen overnight in the nuclear power plant in Tokyo and the neighboring city of Chiba.


Of the 800 employees who were desperately trying to cool the reactors at the plant, there are only 50. They are the "liquidators", true unsung heroes who are risking their lives in a titanic struggle to alleviate a tragedy that seems irreversible, and that in the coming days is unlikely to improve, but worsen. The Japanese Army has already installed hoses to cool the reactor towers, concrete walls which have blown up in explosions, and has sought assistance from U.S. military helicopters pour water over them. The main danger is that some of the affected reactor melt and cause an atomic explosion of biblical proportions. Derailed





The devastating earthquake and tsunami on Friday, which swept the northeast coast of Japan and has left over 10,000 dead, now joins a nuclear apocalypse. "We talk of apocalypse and I think the word is well chosen because the Japanese authorities have lost control of Fukushima" he said Energy Commissioner of the European Union, Günther Oettinger.


For its part, the Nuclear Safety Authority of France raised the severity the loss to the sixth level on the international scale of atomic accidents. The Administration continues to treat Japan as in level 4. Above, on Level 5, you see the tragedy in 1979 at Three Mile Island (Pennsylvania), the American central core of which melted releasing large amount of radioactive material. Of the six reactors available to the plant in Fukushima, four have suffered serious problems and the other two have undergone a dangerous rise in temperatures. Apart from trial work to cool the cores, the fate of the radioactive leak will depend largely on wind last night blew in a southwesterly direction to Tokyo but in the coming days is expected to change east, ie the Pacific Ocean without hitting populated areas in Japan or other nearby countries.


also influence the aftershocks of the earthquake of 9 degrees on Friday, which have been repeated hundreds. Virtually every half hour, the earth shook again in Japan, suffering from mild shock to sway buildings to violent seizures that are shaking the ground.