“Things moved fairly quickly: by four hours after the tsunami hit, the levels of cooling water had dropped enough that the top of the fuel stack was exposed to the air. Shortly after that happened, the temperature in the core reached nearly 3,000°C, and the cooling water boiled off the bottom of the fuel stack. Melting of fuel rods started at 4.8 hours after the earthquake hit, and a partial meltdown had already occurred by 5.1 hours. According to TEPCO, any residual integrity in the fuel rods was gone by 15 hours after the quake, and the reactor core was emptied of fuel by 16 hours.”
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Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too
“Fukushima is likely to be a long-term worry”
I want a poster like a rising sun
Ces affiches japonaise sont superbes.
“High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,” the stone slab reads. “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.”
Japan nuclear threat: Radiation misunderstood
It has been estimated that 17m were exposed to significant radiation after Chernobyl and nearly 2,000 people have since developed thyroid cancer having consumed contaminated food and milk as children.
This is very serious, but nothing like the impact that had been expected, and a UN report identified psychological problems as the major consequence for health.
The perception of the extreme risk of radiation exposure is also somewhat contradicted by the experience of 87,000 survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who have been followed up for their whole lives.
By 1992, over 40,000 had died, but it has been estimated that only 690 of those deaths were due to the radiation. Again, the psychological effects were major.
Japan Quake Map
Le Japon a vécu bien plus qu’un séisme… plutôt 555 durant la dernière semaine, seulement!
Don’t donate money to Japan | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
Attention à qui vous donnez. La Croix-Rouge, Médecins sans frontières (MSF) sont de bonnes organisations à qui donner où l’argent sera utilisée soit au Japon, soit à un autre endroit qui en a besoin.
Quake Alters Earth’s Balance and Widens Japan
[…] Global positioning stations closest to the epicenter jumped eastward by up to 13 feet. […][…] As it unbuckled, a 250-mile-long coastal section of Japan dropped in altitude by two feet, which allowed the tsunami to travel farther and faster onto land […]
Belle utilisation de PROJECTION VIDÉO, de COMBAT D’ÉPÉE JAPONAIS, approche presque THÉÂTRALE (wink wink hint hint).
Via histoiredeq
