Uploaded March 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
*UPDATE* Japan to release radioactive vapor at disabled reactor. They are calling it "slightly" radioactive. Is that like being slightly pregnant?
Japan is issuing an evacuation order to thousands of residents near a nuclear power plant.
Japan's nuclear safety agency says the evacuation order to more than 2,800 people followed the government's emergency declaration at a nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed following a massive earthquake Friday.
The agency says plant workers are currently scrambling to restore cooling water supply at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. There was no prospect for an immediate success.
The plant experienced a mechanical failure in the backup power generation system to supply water needed to cool the reactor. The reactor core remains hot even after a shutdown.
thestar.com/news/world/article/952326--japan-issues-evacuation-order-to-resident-near-nuclear-power-plant
"If you shut down a reactor there is still a lot of heat in the fuel and this requires several hours of active cooling," Greenpeace expert Jan Beranek told Deutsche Welle. "You need lots of water to take the heat out of the reactor. This is the critical moment because if you do not manage the flow of water the residual heat in the reactor's fuel can be big enough to cause melting and potentially damage the reactor."
dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6467113,00.html
Eleven reactors operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., Asia's biggest utility, Tohoku Electric Power Co., and Japan Atomic Power Co. were shut, the trade ministry said in an e- mailed statement. A fire broke out at a turbine building at Tohoku Electric's Onagawa reactor...
bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-11/cosmo-oil-refinery-set-on-fire-nuclear-power-reactors-shut-by-earthquake.html
Reactor cooling equipment fails at TEPCO
Tokyo Electric said an equipment failure has made it impossible to cool two reactors at the Fukushima Number One plant.
www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/11_50.html
Japan had 55 reactors in operation, one under construction, and plans to increase nuclear power's share of electricity from 30 percent in 2006 to more than 40 percent within the next decade.
Chernobyl Power Plant Cover-up
The announcement, the first official disclosure of a nuclear accident ever by the Soviet Union, came hours after Sweden, Finland and Denmark reported abnormally high radioactivity levels in their skies. The readings initially led those countries to think radioactive material had been leaking from one of their own reactors.
nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0426.html
Video from NHK News: www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english
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*UPDATE* Japan to release radioactive vapor at disabled reactor. They are calling it "slightly" radioactive. Is that like being slightly pregnant?
Japan is issuing an evacuation order to thousands of residents near a nuclear power plant.
Japan's nuclear safety agency says the evacuation order to more than 2,800 people followed the government's emergency declaration at a nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed following a massive earthquake Friday.
The agency says plant workers are currently scrambling to restore cooling water supply at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. There was no prospect for an immediate success.
The plant experienced a mechanical failure in the backup power generation system to supply water needed to cool the reactor. The reactor core remains hot even after a shutdown.
thestar.com/news/world/article/952326--japan-issues-evacuation-order-to-resident-near-nuclear-power-plant
"If you shut down a reactor there is still a lot of heat in the fuel and this requires several hours of active cooling," Greenpeace expert Jan Beranek told Deutsche Welle. "You need lots of water to take the heat out of the reactor. This is the critical moment because if you do not manage the flow of water the residual heat in the reactor's fuel can be big enough to cause melting and potentially damage the reactor."
dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6467113,00.html
Eleven reactors operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., Asia's biggest utility, Tohoku Electric Power Co., and Japan Atomic Power Co. were shut, the trade ministry said in an e- mailed statement. A fire broke out at a turbine building at Tohoku Electric's Onagawa reactor...
bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-11/cosmo-oil-refinery-set-on-fire-nuclear-power-reactors-shut-by-earthquake.html
Reactor cooling equipment fails at TEPCO
Tokyo Electric said an equipment failure has made it impossible to cool two reactors at the Fukushima Number One plant.
www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/11_50.html
Japan had 55 reactors in operation, one under construction, and plans to increase nuclear power's share of electricity from 30 percent in 2006 to more than 40 percent within the next decade.
Chernobyl Power Plant Cover-up
The announcement, the first official disclosure of a nuclear accident ever by the Soviet Union, came hours after Sweden, Finland and Denmark reported abnormally high radioactivity levels in their skies. The readings initially led those countries to think radioactive material had been leaking from one of their own reactors.
nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0426.html
Video from NHK News: www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english
*FAIR USE STATEMENT* For non-commercial, educational purposes only. Please see my channel page for details.
Mirrored from ytuber reamonkk. Thanks!
