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All the plants shut down successfully, not just the in-land ones. The moment the earthquake detection system went off the control rods were all dropped in the core. The process took only a couple minutes and well before the tsunami arrived. The problem is the generators needed to run the cooling system after the plant shuts down were damaged by the tsunami.The power plants that shut down successfully were in-land, as their backup power systems were engaged, or they were able to get power from sources outside the earthquake zone to run the primaries.
LOLMy heart goes out to all of them. Imagine a whole town wiped away... can you? over 70,000 people .... and no one knows how many lives gone.
It is frightening to think about it.
Prayers are all I have for them.
Actually it is a fact that towns have been wiped out.LOL
No town was wiped out.
heh!I think he was referring specifically to the fact that several major news sources were reporting 70,000 missing when that was in fact a major translating error that they all copy and pasted.
It's actually a real shame that the reactor is getting so much news. The danger it poses is nothing compared to what the quakes/tsunami have caused and are still causing. Not to mention it could of been completely avoided by certain backup power generation systems which Japan has been advised to adopt and chosen not to in the past.
Hopefully Japan will take the sane approach of moving to reactor designs that aren't capable of meltdown in the future.
Thank you for sharing that link
which one? ...Fayled Dhreams
your link triggers virus alerts.
the radiation coming out of this plant (in the steam) is very short half life.
it is dangerous up close and when it comes out. it is below normal levels after 1 day. the half life is something like 4 mins.
the USA press will try to make it sound like a super disaster to polarize people against nuclear energy added here in the states.
you may be for or against it but at least know what is really going on.
lorddog