Tuesday, March 22, 2011

0322WarmUp

We have just witnessed what could have been of the worst nuclear disasters in history.

As stated in Wikipeida:

The Fukushima I nuclear accidents are a series of ongoing equipment failures and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. The plant comprises six separate boiling water reactors maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Reactors 4, 5 and 6 had been shut down prior to the earthquake for planned maintenance.[3] The remaining reactors were shut down automatically after the earthquake, but the subsequent tsunami flooded the plant, knocking out emergency generators needed to run pumps which cool and control the reactors. The flooding and earthquake damage prevented assistance being brought from elsewhere. On 20 March, The New York Times reported that Yukio Edano, the government’s chief cabinet secretary, "confirmed for the first time ... that the nuclear complex would be closed once the crisis was over."[4]

What is a nuclear accident and how does it happen?

Take a look at these interesting sites:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm

http://science.howstuffworks.com/fusion-reactor.htm

http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclearpower/WebHomeHowNuclearReactorsWork

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4565219_nuclear-reactors-work.html

Look at these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnjGYHOePu0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJfIbBDR3e8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5UvAH11CjM

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dmac

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

lets just forget about this because if we get involved they might say we bombed them again lmaoo

childssowavvey said...

That was intrestinq

payasito781 said...

yea it was intresting

Anonymous said...

i think that the japs werent very smart about where they put something like a nuclear reactor in the water and they know they have mad tsumais

joe said...

i seen no need for the app's i think people needed to start working on some thing more beneficial to the environment,humanity,and the energy crisis going on