Apart from the legitimate reactions of discomfort, fear, helplessness, stupor, facing the disaster recorded in Japan, the news reaching us from the place of the earthquake have highlighted a 'other matter which is deeply worried by the local authorities and, principally, the people most involved in terms of geography. We are talking about the danger of an explosion of reactor number 3 of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, an event that has already occurred to the number 1 reactor. Apparently they have been leaking radioactive contamination in addition to the environment, including a dozen of people (at least those are the confirmed cases).
But the real fear is precisely that of having to attend a new Chernobyl because of the serious situation is in these hours the reactor of the plant, dangerously damaged by the earthquake in its cooling mechanisms of the kernel. Have already been made of the measurements around the central Fukushima to measure levels of radiation outside the reactor components. The results are troubling, since the radiation level is about 1000 times higher than normal, as a result of government's desire to 'lighten' the reactor damaged by high pressure air into the contaminated area.
If you want to make a comparison with the most notorious nuclear disaster in history, what was Chernobyl in 1986, this was scored level 7 on a scale from 1 to 7. The explosion that saw the main reactor number 1 of the plant in Fukushima was level 4, so quite noticeable. Although for now the Japanese authorities are checking the levels of contamination outside the plant, ensuring a rapid decrease of radioactive leaks in the last hours, the fear remains a somewhat likely explosion of the reactor, which is confirmed by the evacuation of 45 000 already in place people who are near the unit.
So in addition to natural disaster is compounded by the problem of 'artificial', which seems difficult to manage, even for a people organized as the Japanese, who is failing to respond to a disaster of enormous proportions with promptness and efficiency.
Natural disasters of this magnitude always bring with them different ideas about land management by humans. But, wanting to leave out unnecessary talk about the difficult trade-off between settlement and geological dynamics, we can instead think about how not to further aggravate what Nature can cause. The advanced Japan, always at the forefront of earthquake prevention and construction of anti seismic, it is finding difficulty in the control of atomic processes taking place inside the unit.
We can only imagine what such an event, if it had happened in Italy, would have resulted, since the memory of the Italians, just back from the disaster of L'Aquila is well aware of the rigidity of controls on infrastructure which exists in the Bel Paese. Implement, or even just thinking of installing new nuclear power stations in Italy, highly seismic area in almost all its surface, is a practice to say the least crowds, which can be explained only by the interests of billionaires in promoting energy lobby ' Atomic Energy Agency. The alternatives to prevent further danger of this kind are there. Continue in the belief that the atom is just about the future of food a mechanism that covers reckless with money the interest of a country.
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