Facts about Japan's nuclear crisis and other crises

"The evacuation area suggested by the Japanese government was initially 12 miles Radiation levels in areas near Fukushima has varied between 400 and 1000 more than the normal levels. "RT news.

"Governments worldwide have hidden certain information about nuclear energy. In 2002 the Japanese government failed to reveal 29 cases of several damages to nuclear plants. In 2003, 17 nuclear plants were discovered whose operators revealed false information "News RT

"America has 16 plants with the same design to Fukushima."

"The Russian president Dmitry Medlev called for the establishment of international regulations for the construction and operation of nuclear plants."

"The cost of a nuclear plant is inaccessible to most countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia. The plants have a lifespan of about 20 years." "All kinds of non-renewable energy has risks. Governments are looking to have a mix to not depend on a single energy source."

April 5, 2011 "Workers of the Fukushima Daiichi plant find a direct flight to the Pacific Ocean. In the vicinity of the plant the level of radiation is a million times the legal limit established. The experts do not know the harmful effects that may cause in the long term. " Democracy Now

"Cases of cancer in humans produced by the radiation leak in the Pacific Ocean will not be known for several months or a year" "It requires constant monitoring the health of the population to know the real impact" Philip White, of the Citizens Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo

April 12, 2011 "Japan has raised the severity rating of ITS nuclear crisis from 5 to 7, the Highest level, matching the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster." Democracy Now

April 12 "We warned the Government that there are a lot of cities and villages outside the 20-kilometers zone evacuation levels where the radiation are so high that people need to be evacuate urgently, especially children and pregnant women, because they are the most vulnerable part of the population to radiation, "Thomas Breuer, head of the Climate and Energy Unit for Greenpeace Germany