Alarm was launched about the safety of Fukushima nuclear plant. In the night a column of white smoke rose from reactor number two, which signals overheating of the fuel bars inside it.
Director general of the International Atomic Agency Yukiyo Amano defined th situation as "serious and worrysome" and raised the alert level from 4 to 5.
The 120 technicians who made a desperate effort to cool the reactors remained in the plant, working in shifts to 50 workers each. Their fate is doomed: the radiations to which they were exposed will condemn them to death. The men who liquidated Chernobyl survived for only some months after the disaster.
One of them wrote to his wife: "Please, try to be well. It's important at least you do. I won't be able to come home for a while". Another one tries to assure his brother: "Don't worry, I'll be back soon, don't you remember I will retire in six months?". On a social network the desperate call of a daughter: "Please Daddy, come home soon".
Unless the technicians manage to cool the reactors, it will be necessary to bury then in concrete.