Japão atingido por Tufão - 21/set/2011
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Japão atingido por Tufão - 21/set/2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14998561
Será a gota de água que a frágil economia mundial precisava para o descalábrio total?
A powerful typhoon has struck disaster-ravaged Japan, bringing heavy rains and floods that have killed four people.
Typhoon Roke is on course to hit Fukushima, where engineers are still struggling to bring a nuclear plant under control after the March tsunami.
There are concerns that rain could force radioactive water into the sea.
Across Japan more than a million people were urged to evacuate their homes; an advisory was later lifted in one area but 330,000 people remain at risk.
The typhoon made landfall on Wednesday afternoon (0500GMT) in Hamamatsu, scouring its way up the main island of Honshu, bringing high winds and torrential rain.
The storm is tracking a path across Tokyo towards Fukushima prefecture and is then expected to travel up along the north-east coast, which was battered by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
The BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo says pools of radioactive water remain at the Fukushima nuclear site, and there is concern that a heavy downpour could cause them to overflow into the sea or groundwater.
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Será a gota de água que a frágil economia mundial precisava para o descalábrio total?
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