Japan's Nuclear Emergency Set

The Japanese government has set a nuclear emergency for one of its nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Tohoku, about 250 kilometers north of Tokyo. After an earthquake rocked with the power of 8.9 on the Richter scale, the nuclear reactor plant number 2 in Fukushima 1, which managed the Tokyo Electric Power Co. have problems in the cooling facility and should be turned off for security.

Although it has been turned off, the demise of the cooling system becomes a serious concern. Therefore, the nuclear reactor was turned off still require cooling process. To anticipate the worst, the government has asked residents near a nuclear reactor was evacuated to a safe radius.

"Orders have been announced to the entire population living in a radius of less than 3 kilometers to go away and anyone who was in a radius of three to ten miles were asked to stay indoors," said Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yujio Edano as reported by AFP.

He said the orders for the evacuation was a precaution. Earlier, Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan has ensured there was no radiation leak at a nuclear reactor.

In addition to nuclear reactors in Fukushima, the problems are also experienced in other nuclear reactors in Miyagi, one of the most severely affected region in the northern Fukushima earthquake. In a nuclear reactor operated Onagawa Tohoku Electric Power, the fire was burning in a building separate from the reactor turbine. However, it does not cause problems in the reactors.

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