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Earthquake/tsunami in Tohoku, North East Japan (11th March 2011)


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More please!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrO2H4Sraw   You'd think they might put in some of the overly loud throat noises and he would do a big "ahhhhhhhhhh" at the end. Come on, where's th

I believe the backup generators were on the sea side of the reactors and the tsunami damaged them. Although the reactors went automatically into shutdown mode there wasn't enough battery power to keep the coolant circulating without backup power from the generators. They've realeased pressure but of course this means releasing radiactive air and steam into the atmosphere. I wouldn't want to be downwind of there!

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Anyone know if there is a site with a list of names with the missing/dead? someone I know is trying to find out about missing people.

 

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An explosion has been heard from a Japanese nuclear power plant hit by Friday's devastating earthquake.

 

Reports said smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured.

 

Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant's reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it.

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"No Chernobyl is possible at a light water reactor. Loss of coolant means a temperature rise, but it also will stop the reaction," Naoto Sekimura, a professor at the University of Tokyo, says."

 

 

The only "good" news I have read in the last couple of days.

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The BBC's environment correspondent Roger Harrabin says he understands the blast at the nuclear plant may have been caused by a hydrogen explosion - also one of the possibilities laid out by Walt Patterson of Chatham House. "If nuclear fuel rods overheat and then come into contact with water, this produces a large amount of highly-flammable hydrogen gas which can then ignite," our correspondent says.1011: More from Walt Patterson of Chatham House. He says the presence of the radioactive caesium in the surrounding area does not pose a huge threat to public health in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. "What would be serious is if there was an explosion or fire that lifted this stuff high in the air, meaning it could get carried over a wide area."

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A nuclear expert says the a blast at Fukushima plant No 1 was caused by a hydrogen explosion.

 

Ian Hore-Lacy, of nuclear industry body the World Nuclear Association, also said the blast may not necessarily have caused a radiation leak.

 

He told Reuters:

 

"It is obviously an hydrogen explosion ... due to hydrogen igniting. If the hydrogen has ignited, then it is gone, it doesn't pose any further threat. As far as we know there is no particular danger from radiation leaks. There may be, but we don't know that. There is no reason to suppose that there must be because of that."

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