PARIS—Favorable 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 Saturday, March 12.
"The wind direction for the time being seems to point the (nuclear) pollution towards the Pacific," Andre-Claude Lacoste told journalists after the blast at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in the north of the country.
The explosion at the ageing plant raised fears of a possible meltdown a day after the facility’s cooling system was damaged in Japan’s massive earthquake on Friday.
"Apparently the situation is serious," Lacoste said, adding that his team was receiving incomplete information from Japan because of the number of people tied up with managing the crisis.
The Japanese government has declared an atomic emergency and said tens of thousands of people living within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the plant should leave.
But the operator Tokyo Electric Power said the structure encasing the reactor had collapsed during an aftershock but the steel reactor inside it was not ruptured.
Major Earthquake
Major earthquake to hit Metro Manila within a year, Christian Group Leader predicts.
Christian group leader Grace Gupana has claimed that a major earthquake will hit Metro Manila sometime between March 16, 2011 and March 16, 2012. In an ABS-CBN News report posted on March 13, she said "God sent her a message about the earthquake that will supposedly destroy the metro".
"Mabubura ang Metro Manila dahil ang mga tao natin sobra na, hindi na tumatawag sa Diyos (Metro Manila will be obliterated because our people do not call on God)," said the founder of the Hallelujah Kingdom of Jerusalem Global Foundation.
Gupana also told ABS-CBN News that the recent earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, and the uprisings in other countries are written in the Old Testament and Book of Revelations.
However, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales said there is nothing to fear even though some current crises might seem to correspond with biblical writings. He said, only God knows when the world will end. "Magdasal tayo; mag-tulungan tayo (Let us pray and help each other)." /MP
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