For the first part of my Japan posts I focused mainly on the actual Tsunami and the damage to the city. For the 2nd part I am going to focus soley on the nuclear problems coming from this happening.
Fukushima Dai-Ichi is an nuclear plant that has been severely affected by the tsunami that struck on March 11th. The tsunami has caused severe damage to 4 of the 6 nuclear reactors that Fukushima houses and today (march 17th) workers are trying everything they can to cool one of the dangerously overheated reactors. The tsunami has damaged the reactors so that the rod's in the reactors aren't staying cool causing the reactors to overheat and if they continue to do so it could result in a "complete meltdown" which would release dangerous amounts of radiation into sourounding areas. The article says that right now the dangeous levels are only on-site at the plant.
But.... What will be the long term affects of this radiation? What about short term? On the top of this article where i read about all of this "Physicist Michio Kaku tells msnbc's Richard Liu that cooling attempts like using helicopter drops to cool down the 700 tons of spent fuel at Japan's Fukushima reactor site won't be enough, that they would be better served with a 'Chernobyl' approach"
What's going to happen? I think the radiation might just cause zombies to come. What about you?
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