came to Finland to prohibit children tap water in Tokyo for radioactivity discovered in Antarctica The governor of the prefecture of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara told the people that there is no immediate health danger, but the advice is precautionary. (Getty Images) The Government instructed
Wednesday to the inhabitants of the capital that do not give tap water to children under one year due to radioactive contamination caused by leaks at the plant in Fukushima, whose situation remains "very serious" after the quake and tsunami, according to control agency of the UN.
Meanwhile, the dead rise to 9,523 by the earthquake and tsunami and 16,094 people missing, police said.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government decided to supply the homes with young children with 240,000 bottles of water.
A spokesman for the prefecture of Tokyo said it was detected in drinking water level of 210 becquerels per liter of radioactive iodine 131, a level too high for infants above 100 becquerels allowed, while for older children and adults the maximum level is 300 becquerels.
However, the governor of the prefecture of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara told the people that there is no immediate health danger, but the advice is precautionary.
The expert from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Andrew Graham said at a news conference in Vienna that "the overall situation still gives us cause for considerable concern."
According to the IAEA, the reactor 3 of Fukushima I can not be provided electrical machinery, while Japan announced the restoration of electricity in the reactor 3.
In this block, which contains plutonium, rose a column of black smoke that forced the workers to leave the area of \u200b\u200breactors 3 and 4, although the authorities did not provide information, she noted Elena Buglova IAEA.
Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, today banned two districts near the central Fukushima selling vegetables and unpasteurized milk, while the farmers demanded that the Minister of Agriculture, Michihiko Kano, compensation for losses caused by the prohibition of selling dairy products.
The authorities found high levels of radioactivity in eleven types of agricultural products from Fukushima Prefecture, including broccoli and cabbage.
Motomiya In the city, 60 miles west of the nuclear plant, the Health Ministry said radioactive cesium was detected at levels 164 times above the allowable in a plant called "kukitachina."
The Ministry also detected radioactive iodine in parsley, raw milk and mustard plant in Ibaraki prefecture, while in Iitate, 40 kilometers from the Fukushima plant was also detected in the soil pollution.
The sale of spinach and vegetable "Kakina" from Fukushima and three other towns still prohibited from Monday.
The danger is that the radioactive iodine is set by the thyroid and may cause cancer risk.
Presidential spokesman Yukio Edan, warned people not to buy bottled water in bulk, because it is one of the goods most needed in areas affected by the earthquake of 8.9 on the Richter scale and the tsunami with waves ten meters, from March 11. The government admitted
have measured high levels of radioactivity outside the evacuation zone 20 kilometers established around the damaged nuclear Fukushima I, however, decided not to extend the evacuation zone of 20 kilometers but recommended keeping the windows closed.
The company operates in Fukushima, TEPCO, applied for a loan of 1.5 trillion yen, equivalent to 18,500 million dollars at major banks in the country to address the effects of accidents on the nuclear plant.
The Japanese government reported that damage from the disaster exceeded 300 billion dollars, up from the data of the Kobe earthquake in 1995.