![]() ![]() and sorry for the rant kruijs., but am oscillating and because i feel badly about betting on this terrible tragedy. , i think, except for the generic settlement statement. Does it need a stated report by a reputable Japanese newspaper or american paper that a "meltdown" has occurred? I do not know. So, does one need to have more meltdown than say 1%, or what? the question does not address what a meltdown consists of. MaTOKYO Japan’s nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the nuclear core at one reactor and a fire at another spewed. ![]() THe melting, as far as I know has been minimal. In other words, does it need a "complete meltdown" for it to be a meltdown, a meltdown sufficient to break the containment building (which has NOT happened) or what? It is true there were gas releases, but these were released by the staff to cool the reactor to prevent further material from melting. To state a position to people, (and I know kruijs works especially hard on this site, so pardon me please), that a question IMHO, would be best if it were to state when it would be deemed valid, and invalid (true or false say). Not wanting to be critical, since I am not doing the work, it is true. To me, this is typical of the type of questions, that make a real settlement invalid. Once power to the cooling supply is interrupted, all the coolant could boil off in as little as an hour, Kamps said. Air Force is assisting in flying in backup generators, and Japanese ground forces are also trucking generators and batteries to the site, according to media reports. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. But those batteries have a life no more than about eight hours, according to nuclear expert Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, an organization working to "free the world from nuclear power and nuclear weapons." The reactor also has backup batteries to take over in such an event, and authorities were able to bring those on line and restore the flow of coolant after less than an hour. 1 were damaged by the tsunami and are inoperable. All reactors have diesel emergency generators to provide backup electricity, but apparently those at Fukushima No. The electrical grid in Fukushima province was badly damaged by the tsunami, so power is not available from that source to cool the fuel rods. Pressure in the reactor was rising despite the US Air Force flying extra coolant to the plant. Ten years after Japan’s deadly earthquake and tsunami, we take a look at how the disaster unfolded. The reactor’s cooling system failed after the 8.9-magnitude tremor hit northern Japan at 2.46pm local time. The Fukushima disaster in maps and charts. Prime minister Naoto Kan declared a nuclear emergency as his trade minister admitted that a radiation leak might occur at the Fukushima power plant. Japan was battling to avoid a nuclear disaster after a reactor was critically damaged by the country’s biggest earthquake.
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