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[update 13.03.2011] Radiation 1,000 times above normal was detected in the control room of one plant in the early hours of the morning.[/update]

A huge cloud of smoke billows out and large bits of debris are flung far from the building.

FAVOURABLE winds will likely blow possible radioactive pollution from a blast at a Japanese nuclear power plant out over the Pacific Ocean, the French Nuclear Safety Authority said today.

"The wind direction for the time being seems to point the (nuclear) pollution towards the Pacific," Andre-Claude Lacoste said after the blast at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in the north of the country.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant's operator, said four workers had been injured.

A nuclear reactor meltdown or melting occurred in the Ukrainian Chernobyl (1986). In the U.S. Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 there was a partial meltdown.

Also from other parts of the world rush rescue teams on Sunday to Japan. The American aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived at the coast to the Japanese army to help. Helicopters of the Japanese army arrive at the huge aircraft carrier refueling and transport people.

An American team of twelve people and 144 dogs coming Sunday in northern Japan. The dogs are trained to find victims beneath the rubble.

The British send 59 men and 11,000 pounds of rescue equipment, lifting equipment such as powerful. France sends two teams protection.

Field Hospitals

Australia has offered complete field hospitals, as well as teams that can identify victims. The country also wants to send nuclear scientists to the problems with the Japanese nuclear power plants.

The United Nations also reported that Japan has accepted aid from Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea. Rescue teams from another 39 countries are standing, according to the organization.

The Japanese Red Cross has sent 62 emergency teams to help victims in the disaster area. Approximately four hundred doctors, nurses and other professionals have been deployed in mobile clinics, according to the organization.

The Chinese Red Cross has pledged 100,000 euros to the Japanese counterparts. Afghanistan's Kandahar province has about 35,000 euros promised. - Sub 4 more video-editing, mixes, good music: [ Ссылка ]

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