Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

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 Broke out yesterday in the fourth reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant, which led to the high level of radiation significantly. According to Japanese media sources that the fire was brought under control.

The authorities warned that the level of radiation around nuclear reactors pose a threat to public health, and called on people living within the radius of thirty kilometers Fukushima station to stay in their homes.

With the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that the level of radiation has exceeded the normal level this morning in the Japanese capital, pointing out that this level is very weak to influence human health.

And requested the European Commission in Brussels for an emergency meeting of the International Agency for Atomic Energy in Vienna next week to discuss international concerns of the possibility of a radiological disaster because of the explosions in the nuclear complex "Fukushima" in Japan.

Japan has requested international assistance to control the temperature rise in Fukushima station, and the danger now posed by the occurrence of a radiation leak, but Japanese officials say that risk is limited.

Officials in the nuclear field in the United States that the Japanese authorities requested them to provide advice on how to deal with the problem in the nuclear power plant, Japan has also extended a request for assistance to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

However, the President of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, Yukiya Amano, has ruled out becoming a nuclear crisis in Japan to a second Chernobyl, in reference to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in the old Soviet Union.

While the Japanese authorities tried to calm the fears of its citizens after Altfjert, announced that the confirmed number of dead and missing from the earthquake and tsunami has risen to five thousand people dead or missing, and up to ten thousand.

Japanese police announced today that the confirmed number of dead and missing in the quake and subsequent tsunami has risen to five thousand people dead or missing, but local authorities fear the death toll exceeded ten thousand.

On the other hand, the Japanese authorities are trying to cooling nuclear reactors in Fukushima station after two explosions in and near the nuclear complex last authorities are struggling to cool the three reactors.