Nuclear Power Plant Problems
Now it is the sixth night since the occurrence of the 3/11 Great Disaster in Northeast Honshu, Japan.
There are several problems identified today:
1) Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant problems.
2) Insufficient provision of goods, energy, and health services for the needy in the affected areas.
3) Planned power outages in the Kanto Region, including Tokyo, causing shortage of goods in convenience stores.
4) Public transportation services somewhat crippled around Tokyo and toward the northeast part of Honshu Island.
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Japan's nuclear plants map:
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.jaif.or.jp/ja/nuclear_world/data/f0301.html
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The causes of Fukushima Plant troubles are: emergency batteries broken by tsunami and hydrogen gas generated in the containment vessel. Accordingly. no pump worked to cool nuclear fuel; and a blast occurred as hydrogen gas touched the air.
Hydrogen gas was especially generated as fuel rods were exposed to the space out of water so that heat melted a metal coverage of the nuclear fuel, releasing hydrogen gas.
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The Chernobyl nuclear plant had no containment vessel (CV), but each of Fukushima units has both CV and the pressure vessel.
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Total 2400 schools, including primary one to universities, are affected by the Great Northeast Japan Disaster in the northeast area of Honshu Island.
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Courageous 180 workers are engaged in recovery work in the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant site.
Some foreigners are leaving areas around the effected regions or even Tokyo.
At 3:00 p.m.
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Many units of Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant were originally designed by GE decades ago. American engineers had given warning concerning these reactors. Some them quit GE for this problem decades ago.
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Removing of debris (caused by tsunami) from the reactor-unit building sites are now being carried out in Fukushima No.1 Plant.
At 2:00 p.m.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co.: As of this morning of Wednesday, Japan, courageous 180 workers are engaged in recovery work in the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant site.
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The Government said that the white smoke is most probably from the 3rd unit of the Fukshima No.1 Plant.
The radiation level at the gate of the Plant was 2900 micro-sievert at 10:55 and 3391 micro-sievert at 11:00 a.m., according to the Government, though the maximum was around 6000 micro-sievert at 10:45 this morning.
At 00:10 p.m.
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Tragically, 3,676 deaths are confirmed by the Japanese Police Agency. Total 15,000 people are dead or missing since the 3/11 earthquake/tsunami occurrence. At 11:45 a.m.
This is the first time in Japan after WWII that the number of casualties in one disaster has exceeded 10,000.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano said around 11:20 a.m. Japan Time: The radiation level at the gate of the Fukushima No.1 Power Plant has increased to a mili-sievert level from a micro-sievert level.
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NHK TV: Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it could not identify the cause of the smoke around "the 3rd unit, probably," of Fukushima No.1 Plant.
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Five hours ago, 5:45 a.m. of Japan Time, the 4th unit of Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Plant fired. Still white smokes rising, according to NHK TV.
As the 4th unit emits strong radiation, no personnels are in the control room of this reactor unit.
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A year ago 300,000 people were sacrificed in Haiti.
This year probably 15,000 people are sacrificed in Japan due to big earthquakes and tsunami.
Yet, 30,000 people commit suicide in Japan every year since 1998.
Japan must repent of negligence in the weak, the poor, and the economically defeated in the society.
Mar 3:15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
Mar 3:16 And Simon he surnamed Peter;
Mar 3:17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: