GERMANY: Nuclear plant operator sends second shipment of filters, masks and radiation detectors to Japan

Record ID: 275885

  • Title: GERMANY: Nuclear plant operator sends second shipment of filters, masks and radiation detectors to Japan
  • Date: 23rd March 2011
  • Summary: ERLANGEN, GERMANY (MARCH 22, 2011) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPANY AREVA'S BRANCH IN BAVARIAN TOWN OF ERLANGEN SIGN OUTSIDE WORKERS PACKING BOXES LABEL ON YELLOW GAS MASK LYING ON BOX WORKER REMOVING GAS MASK VARIOUS OF WORKER STACKING BOXES WIDE OF WAREHOUSE AS WORKERS PACK BOXES RADIATION DETECTOR BOX OF RADIATION DETECTOR IODINE TABLETS IN BOX (
  • Embargoed: 7th April 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Germany, Germany
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  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes,Health
  • Reuters ID: LVAEFC9N51BL8JUMKBPNS3873Y51
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  • Story Text: A shipment of protective suits, masks and nuclear radiation detectors was on its way to Japan on Tuesday (March 22) after the operators of the ill-fated Fukushima reactor asked for assistance, according to French nuclear company "Areva."
    Workers at the company's German branch in the southern town of Erlangen were seen packing boxes at a warehouse after the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) asked for help, according to Areva.
    "We are packing aid shipments which arrived here from across the country from German nuclear plant operators to ship them to Japan," said Areva's aid coordinator Klaus Streit.
    The shipment will be flown from Frankfurt to Tokyo where it will be "distributed further," Streit said.
    He added that the "protective suits for the workers made from plastic are supposed to prevent skin contamination. There are also masks and filters to prevent absorption and radiation detectors to make sure that workers are not subject to illegitimate radiation."
    Rising temperatures around the core of one of the reactors at Japan's quake-crippled nuclear plant sparked new concern on Tuesday and more water was needed to cool it down, the plant's operator said.
    Despite hopes of progress in the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter of a century, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami that left at least 21,000 people dead or missing, plant operator TEPCO said it needed more time before it could say the reactors were stabilised.
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