Tokyo, 10 sep (EFE).-Japan remember tomorrow to more than 20,000 victims of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 serving six months of the tragedy, who caused a nuclear crisis and left a daunting reconstruction task that the Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, committed today to boost.
Events to remember the deceased will be repeated on Sunday across the country to the 14.46 (05.46 GMT) local time, when six months ago that a strong earthquake of 9 on the Richter shook Northeastern Japan and triggered the worst crisis Japan recalls since World War II.
Today, eve of the disaster, was the day chosen by Noda to make his first visit as head of Government to the areas destroyed, after having taken power formally does little more than one week to replace Naoto Kan.
In the province of Miyagi, where there were more than half of the victims of the disaster, Noda promised to reinforce the reconstruction of the ravaged, areas where accumulate even more than 23,000 tons of rubble.
Tens of thousands of people remain homeless permanent pending on whether the Government decides where their new homes will be built and will be required.
The Prime Minister said that the requests of authorities of Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, the three provinces most affected will be reflected in the third budget extraordinary Executive prepares to confront the astronomical costs of reconstruction.
Have so far been approved two budgets extras for a total of 6 trillion yen (about 56.700 million euros), and the third braced between 7 and 8 trillion yen more to rehabilitate the northeast (between 66.150 and 75.360 million euros).
Job creation was another of the commitments which today adopted Noda, after the natural disaster forced to close many factories in the region and the nuclear crisis has seriously hit the agriculture, fisheries and animal husbandry of Fukushima.
This province is home to the dilapidated central of Daiichi, where operators of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), technical and members of emergency teams are working day and night to try to control the temperature of their reactors.
Six months after the tsunami caused the cooling system of the plant, on 11 March had three of its six reactors in operation, the Government and TEPCO view completed the first phase of the “road map” to solve the crisis.
This means that the units have a cooling stable thanks to a system that recycles the contaminated water that accumulates in the central, and the radioactivity decreases steadily “”, according to TEPCO.
Recently the electric announced that reactors 1 and 3 were below 100 degrees Celsius and efforts are now focused on getting that this temperature remains stable, would lead to “cold stop”.
In addition, the operator of Fukushima reported today that has completed the frame that will be a covered giant reactor 1, which will seek to avoid to spread radioactive material, and at the same time rain to flood this unit.
Is expected to cover, with sheets of steel and polyester sheets, completion in October and later will get up similar units 3 and 4, structures damaged in turn by the explosions recorded in the days after the tsunami.
2 Reactor and the pool of used fuel from the reactor 4 concentrated also still the work of operators, whose value has been applauded widely and has earned awards such as the Spanish Prince of Asturias of Concord, this week, the so-called “heroes of Fukushima”.
Despite advances in the containment of the crisis for now remains the exclusion zone decreed in a 20 km radius of the plant, which forced them to evacuate nearly 80,000 families.
Them is compounded by an undetermined number of residents of the same province that went for fear of radioactivity and, half a year later, unaware when they will return.
It is estimated that only the clean-up of residential areas will cost 220 billion yen (2.080 million euros), said yesterday the Government, which not said, however, how long will this enormous work. EFE
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