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Fukushima Plant Could Leak Radiation for Months,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Government officials in Japan say it could take months for radiation leaks to be brought under control at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The Fukushima Daiichi plant continues to spew radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean and government officials are saying the crisis at the stricken plant could last for months to come. On Sunday workers were preparing to attempt to seal a hole in a maintenance pit that is thought to be allowing radioactive water from inside the plant to escape to the sea.
The hole,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], discovered a day earlier,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is around 20 centimeters in length and the Tokyo Electric Power company says it will try and seal it with a mixture of sawdust,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shredded newspaper and a plastic that is supposed to expand as it sets.News that the crisis might go on for months was delivered by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a news conference.
Edano says he believes several months is a reasonable amount of time to expect a solution. He said the government is also exploring options to shorten this period.Also on Sunday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Tokyo Electric Power said it had found the bodies of two plant workers missing since the massive tsunami hit the plant on March 11.The two were found in the basement of a reactor turbine building at the plant. They had died of multiple injuries.
Global economy to expand 4.5 pct in 2012: Peterson Institute
Global economy is forecast to grow by a solid pace of 4.3 percent this year and 4.5 percent next year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics said here on Monday.The unrest in North Africa and the Middle East,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the spike of world oil and commodity prices and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan will slow global economic growth for at least the first half of 2011 and increase downside risks after that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Michael Mussa,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a senior fellow at the institute.
The latest projections are roughly in line with the think tank' s earlier forecast last September of 4.3 percent and 4.4 percent for this year and next year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], respectively.An overall global recovery has been powered by a much stronger performance by emerging markets than by advanced economies,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a pattern expected to persist at least through this year and next year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Mussa.