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More than half the nuclear reactors are operating outside Japan

The Fukushima-1 nuclear

60% of nuclear reactors in the territory of Japan are out of operation following the devastating earthquake that struck the country last March 11, local television reported. Japan has 54 operating reactors, installed in 17 stations across the country, of whom 32 were stopped work, NHK reported.

experts say that this situation may affect the energy supply to the eastern and central Japan currently suffer power cuts after the nuclear disaster.

The strong earthquake of magnitude 9 and the subsequent tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 left out of refrigeration systems in Fukushima-1 causing explosions in various reactors and radioactive material leaks .

Nuclear Safety Agency of Japan (NISA) has announced the April 12 accident have raised the level of danger Fukushima 7, the maximum in the International Nuclear Event Scale INES.

This same level 7 is the one that had the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, which occurred on April 26, 1986 in Ukraine and considered the biggest nuclear disaster in history.


Viejo Condor
RIA Novosti (SIC)