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| The Situation in Japan Seen from Bucharest 18/03/2011 |
| (2011-03-18) |
| Last updated: 2011-03-21 15:31 EET |
The situation in Japan continues to be serious in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake, and especially after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant, which prompted the authorities in Tokyo to declare a nuclear alert. The whole world is riveted to events unfolding in Japan, and the situation faced by the country has mobilized the authorities in Bucharest, too.
Prime Minister Emil Boc has called on his Foreign and Interior ministers to prepare a government resolution providing the legal framework for Bucharest to send humanitarian aid to the victims of the Japanese quake.
In turn, Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi has announced that he has called on nuclear experts to set up a crisis cell, which will present its assessment of the situation in Japan twice a day. The purpose of that cell is to make decisions relating to Romanians living in Japan. Baconschi also said that a financial reserve of some 200,000 euros needed to be set up, since many Romanians may be unable to get tickets on regular flights.
So far, no Romanians have been reported as among the victims, the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has announced, and has also recommended that Romanians stay at least 80 kilometres away from the nuclear facilities. The crisis in Japan has triggered heated discussions related to the nuclear energy sector, bringing back memories of the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986, which left at least 15 thousand dead.
We recall that to this day, around 2.6 million people in Ukraine suffer from radiation-related diseases. One the measures taken right after the nuclear disaster in Japan was the closing down of seven nuclear reactors in Germany, for a period of three months. Also, most countries have announced they will revise the security standards at their nuclear power plants.
Furthermore, the European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger has recently announced that in the coming weeks nuclear power plants across EU member states will have to go through earthquake tests and seismic resistance investigations. Romania has already two operational nuclear reactors at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in the South-East, and plans to build two more reactors as part of the same plant.
Nuclearelectrica, the state-owned company that manages the reactors, has given assurances that the Cernavoda nuclear power plant is resistant to earthquakes measuringf 8 degrees on the Richter scale. Nuclearelectrica has also stated that earthquakes of the magnitude reported in Japan are highly unlikely to occur in Romania. The recent earthquake is the strongest ever to have hit the Japanese archipelago.
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