08:15 March 15, 2011 - Tokyo, March 15. - Two new outbreaks of the nuclear power plant Fukushima 1, located 250 km northeast of Tokyo and is the first 'occurred in reactor number two, then the other in reactor number four, where he' ALSO 'developed a fire, extinguished only after some time.
Although 'the number four reactor was stopped for maintenance work on Friday when' the area was last hit by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0, according to the chief spokesman Government of Japan, Yukio Edan, "the spent nuclear fuel and is' overheated, producing hydrogen and triggered the explosion." Are therefore four of six reactors of the plant where there have been outbreaks of huge proportions as it was already 'been at number one and number three respectively on Saturday and Sunday. The authorities 'have warned that the radiation levels around the central' has become dangerous to health and, although 'had already' been evacuated residents within a 20 km exclusion zone from the central Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan urged to stay inside even those who reside within a range of 10 km further from the edge of the exclusion zone itself.
levels of radioactivity 'ten times higher to standard were recorded today in Maebashi, a city 'located about 100 km north of Tokyo has announced the Japanese news agency' Kyodo ', citing municipal sources. Even Japan's capital in the same day in the radiation have been reported on the rise, but still such a degree, according to authorities' metropolitanme, "not to cause any problem." Edan, in turn, explained that the level of radiation and 'currently 30 millisievert between number two and three reactors of 400 millisievert near three of the same reactor and 100 close to the reactor four. A single dose of 1,000 millisievert, that 'a sievert and that' unity 'of measurement of radioactivity,' may 'cause sicknesses such as nausea, temporary and vomiting, and one of 5,000 millisievert 'can kill within one month about half' of those who have received. Understanding of the scale, 'just think that a normal chest X-ray usually leads to a dose of 20 microsievert.
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