Tepco pulled back information about radioactive water in Fukushima

 

The Japanese nuclear power plant Tepco operator has the information on the degree of radioactivity of the withdrawn from a reactor in Fukushima plant a water-worn.

The error was due to "confusion" in the measurements of iodine and cobalt in water came about, the news agency Jiji reported, citing Tepco. The operator had previously stated radioactively contaminated water with a ten million-fold increase in radiation from reactor 2 is the nuclear power plant leaked.

The statement that the increased values ​​1000 mSv per hour could be had, but correctly, it said. Further analysis would "as soon as possible" made Jiji quoted Tepco- Vice President Sakae Muto.

Given the disaster in Fukushima Japan for an end to hundreds of nuclear power have demonstrated. In the capital Tokyo and Nagoya in the center of the country gathered on Sundays around 300 demonstrators, including journalists, the news agency AFP reported. "We do not need nuclear power," chanted the protesters in Tokyo, who also marched on the headquarters of the energy company responsible for Fukushima Tepco. Some protesters wore gas masks.

In Nagoya, the protesters turned chanting loudly against "a second Fukushima. In particular, they demanded the closure of about 120 kilometers away in Hamaoka nuclear reactor in an earthquake zone on the southern coast of the island of Honshu. With heart-shaped balloons and they marched to the building of an energy supplier.

"I would even have control over my life and leave future generations no toxins," said the 63-year-old Shigeko Furumichi. The 36 - Goto Kenjirou year-old student added that the causes in Fukushima emerging radiation "enormous damage to agriculture." Who traveled here from Tokyo Atsuchi Fujuki was "sad and disappointed" in the face of disaster. "Japan has always lied when it has touted the benefits of nuclear energy," he said. (APA)

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