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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Reactor #3

March 13th, 2011 8:30pm CST
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Just in from Xinhua:
"The No. 3 reactor at the plant lost its ability to cool the reactor core early Sunday, becoming the sixth reactor that lost the function. And a hydrogen explosion is possible at the No. 3 reactor. 

According to the latest NHK news report on Monday, pressure at No. 3 reactor of Fukushima nuclear plant is rising, workers at the site have been evacuated.

An official of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that the emergency cooling system of the No.3 reactor is no longer functioning."

4 comments:

  1. Can you explain why build so many nuclear reactors in a country with high risk of natural dissasters?

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  2. NO. That one has no explanation I can fathom.

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  3. Can you explain why build so many nuclear plants in a country with a high risk of natural dissaster? Silvina A. Castro from Bs. As. Argentina

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  4. At our "so called" third wold country we would say: well.... is expectable a thing like this, but in JAPAN, the "so called" first world....

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