japan s closest neighbors, china, south korea and russia are on edge. officials began to check owl livestock imported from japan for radiation levels. they have detected no increase in radiation and japan s largest trading partner china issues an order for monitoring. what about all of the people living at or near the plants especially longer term. there is no to radiation. but the person exposed to it. it is an increased list. workers have been evacuated from a nuclear plant in japan. here is the government spokesperson on japanese television just moments ago. all the workers there have suspended their operations. we have push urged them to evacuate in a safe area. what are we left with? no more workers at the plant. i believe that is what they
the situation at the fukushima plant changes again for the worst. this is a fox news alert. nuclear officials confirm hydroagain explosion at unit three of the fukushima plant. currently they are pumping seawater around the reactor to try to cool it down and stop any kind of meltdown. the japanese authorities say there could be a partial meltdown already but they don t know because they can t get in to the reactor. sending one helicopter to dump 50-tons of water on a flaming nuclear power plant is hike using a sports gun to start a forest fire. what did hit with barricades and sandbags. that is what i suggest, all out the japanese air force. another explosion rocks the already wounded power plant. this time it is reactor number
exposed to. the owners of the power plant continued to say the radiation being released does not pose health risks to humans. looking at this, i do not think that this has any immediate effect on human health. there were no evacuation as you prepare for a situation like this and we haven t heard that that was necessary. he says that the tokyo electric power company never told us about any risky or dangerous situation. there is no safe level of radiation. any amount that you get extra means increased cancers down the road. even japan opinion s prime minister spoke about the unfolding disaster. at the end of world war ii, 650 years since this is the toughest and most difficult crisis for japan. the national atomic emergency agency first rated the accident a level four out of seven but quickly upgraded the disaster to a level six.
it is touch and go in japan this morning as workers head back in to battle a nuclear melt down. do they stand a fighting chance? a live report from japan. there has been desperate moves so far to date to try to affect the overheat at that plant. we understand that the japanese military helicopter with a huge bucket of water was sent up to pour water over the reactors but it had to abort its mission because of the high levels of radiation. when the radiation levels reportedly dropped the evacuated workers returned to the stricken nuclear power plant the next day. as they scramble to avoid a catastrophe, the japanese emperor made a rare television address. i feel deep in my heart as i see the miserable condition in the affected area. i m deeply concerned about the nuclear situation because it is
applegate, a senior adviser at the usgs. how much of a priority do we place as americans on disaster preparedness as compared with those living in other countries? well, as you mentioned the japanese have led the way in terms of very large scale public preparedness. we are making efforts here in the u.s. we have now had the great california shake out for the last couple of years. it s an annual exercise involving 8 million people in drop, cover and hold and preparedness activities. in april there will be a great central shakeout, april 28 that will focus on the area at risk from the new madrid seismic zone to try to build awareness there that we have this hazard. of course we have two large subduction zones just like what ruptured off japan, alaska and the pacific northwest. i just moved from california to new york.