Nuclear power plant in Hamaoka of closed Japan (AFP)

Of TOKYO (AFP) - Japan ageing of the Hamaoka nuclear plant located near a tectonic fault southwest of Tokyo, completed the closure of all its reactors Saturday to prevent any accident due to a natural disaster.

Reactor of the plant number five stopped power generation and has been closed to 1: 00 pm GMT (0400), said the spokesman for Chubu Electric Power Co. Hiroaki Oobayashi.

"The decision was confirmed after we have inserted all 205 control bars in the reactor", he added.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan had previously called for its closure, eight weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi northeast of Tokyo, triggering the worst Atomic crisis of the world in 25 years.

The plant in Hamaoka, located 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of Tokyo, has five units of reactor, but only two have been running recently - numbers four and five. Number four reactor was suspended Friday.

Reactors one and two, built in the 1970s, were arrested in 2009, and three are under maintenance.

Seismologists have warned that a major earthquake is overdue in the Tokai area southwest of Tokyo where the Hamaoka plant long.

Hamaoka represents about 12 per cent of the production of Chubu Electric, which serves a large part of the industrial heart of the Japan, including many of Toyota Motor factories.

Kan said that the plant would remain closed while a higher sea wall was built and other measures are taken to prevent a major earthquake and tsunami. The local media, said the suspension was to last approximately two years.

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Healthcare providers Find closed Options meaningful use

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Slide show: 17 VendorsPhysicians of EHR prepares to certify for significant use of records electronic health (EHR) to save Medicare premiums, take note. Depending on where you practice, you do may not be able to claim exemptions from some of the necessary measures.

For example, in Illinois, a new report, says that the State is not able to accept electronic data of the EHR on syndromic surveillance, which is one of the 10 measures - which providers must respond to the five - stage 1 meaningful use. But the federal rules require eligible providers (physicians and other health care professionals who qualify for grants) report on at least one of the two measures related to the health of the population: syndromic surveillance and immunization registries.

"An EP Medicare [eligible provider] may postpone 5 measures set 10 menu, but only one of the measures of population health, without giving a reason why they did not mention the measures that they were different," says the report, drafted by internist Dr. Stasia sands-Kahnin collaboration with the Department of public health of Illinois and the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Reporter a measure is the same that claiming exclusion, according to the report. A provider may claim the exclusion for certain measures, but will be required to certify the exception. In the case of measures of population health, an exemption must be verified by the State in which the provider practices.

"For the health of the population, you must make one," sands-Kahn said in an interview. And the inability of the State to accept electronic data for one of the measures Won't get you off the hook for the other, she said. "The only way out of [the declaration requirement] is if you do not have immunizations at all," said sands-Kahn.

Sands-Kahn, an IT consultant who practice in the medical group three-provider Fox Prairie, Saint-Charles, Illinois, of health released the report Wednesday on its survival of the TRA website, which provides advice on electronic medical records to the practices of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Medicare eligible providers can claim exclusion of submitting electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies, given that the Department of public health of Illinois currently does not have the infrastructure in place to allow the EHR data, according to the report. However, suppliers met the requirement to measure health population significant use "simply by claiming an exclusion of the objective of the syndromic surveillance." "EPs must select at least one of the options in the health of the population," said the report.

In Illinois, this means that they must use the State immunization registry, even if it is essentially in the beta. Sands-Kahn noted that Illinois has run two drivers with groups of suppliers, but has not widely tested system.

Based on conversations with technical specialists to the CMS, Sands-Kahn has said that it believes similar problems exist in other States, and that could create a lot of headaches for small practices such as hers.

"My practice must send a test of the report of immunization," sands-Kahn has said, "and it means our EMR provider involvement." I need a vaccination interface. It is an add-on. And of course, the question is, do I pay for it? ?

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