Emergency Power Generator (un générateur de secours)
Japanese industry has depended on nuclear power generation, which is shaken since the 3/11 Disaster.
If all the 54 nuclear reactors for generation of electricity should be stopped in an extreme case, Japan will lose 30% of its total electricity, which would severely damage the Japanese industry. At least, current plans to build more nuclear reactors will be reviewed and halted.
It is a big challenge to the Japanese people enjoying advanced material life. And, this challenge could be only posed by the God on March 11, 2011, though the Disaster took about 25,000 lives.
SECTION I: Fukushima "Daini" Nuclear Plant
No troubles occurred in the Fukushima Daini Plant on March 11, 2011, when the M9.0 great earthquake occurred and 15-meter high tsunamis were generated off the northeast part of Honsyu Island, Japan. However, the Fukushima Daini Plant is situated just 10 km (6 miles) south of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant.
Fukushima Daini Specifications:
Unit... Criticality...Reactor supplier...Output... Containment
1...31/07/1981 ...Toshiba...1.10 Mkw...Mark 2
2...23/06/1983 ...Hitachi...1.10 Mkw...Mark 2 advanced
3...14/12/1984 ...Toshiba...1.10 Mkw...Mark 2 advanced
4...17/12/1986 ...Hitachi...1.10 Mkw...Mark 2 advanced
It is true that Fukuhima Daini was attacked by big tsunamis like Fukushima Daiichi, but how could it survive?
TEPCO has released a detailed analysis of the tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daini Nuclear plant on March 11th, 2011. The analysis specifies the Inundation height, Inundation area, and the Run-up Height
Inundation Height – Considering the marks left on building facilities the height of the Tsunami waters reached 6.5meters to 7meters above the base level (Base Level = O.P. 0 meters) Inundation Depth was approximately 2 to 3 meters only at the south side of Unit 1 building.
Inundation Area – Most of the ocean-side area but no run-up over the hill to the main building area was found.
Run-up Height – Considering the vestiges on slope and road, approximately O.P. +14 meters.
It appears the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant was designed to be able to handle Tsunami waters that are only 5.2 meters above the Base level O.P. 0 meters. As the Tsunami waters reached 6.5 to 7 meters above base level the heat exchanger building was overwhelmed but the waters did not overwhelm the Turbine buildings or the reactor buildings the way it did to the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
http://www.japannewstoday.com/?p=3021
It is because emergency power generators for nuclear reactors were secured in Fukushima Daini from seawater the tsunami carried in. But, those generators were not sufficiently protected in Daiichi, so that they were submerged. Without the power source, cooling water could not be circulated through a reactor, making it impossible to cool nuclear fuel and prevent meltdown.
So, it is just a matter of locations of emergency power generators that made a difference.
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Another consideration is that Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan has survived due to the state of emergency of all over Japan.
PM Mr. Kan was severely attacked by opposition politicians before March 11, since he received money for his political activities from a Korean resident in Japan, which was illegal. His way of administration failed in diplomacy especially with China (the Senkaku issue) and Russia (the norther territory issue), and his reformation plan on national finance and social welfare systems were not trusted, since he recruited an ex-opposition politician as a minister in charge of the reformation. He was only praised in his policy to promote nuclear power generation. He was proud of himself successfully selling a nuclear power plant to Vietnam.
Yet, the 3/11 great earthquake and tsunami occurred to save him. Some Media called to the people to cooperate with the Kan Cabinet to overcome the predicament the nation has come to suffer. So the approval rating of PM Mr. Kan rose to 35% from 25%. But now, four months after March 11, his approval rating has fallen again further down to 15%. It is partly because the Fukushima Daiichi situation has not come to be fixed and still tens of thousands of people in the Tohoku coastal areas are in a state of refugees (in addition to 85,000 evacuees from regions around Fukushima Daiichi).
However, it is well known that the largest opposition party LDP has had a strong tie with the Japanese nuclear industry, since the LDP had been in power since 1950's to 2009. Most of responsibility for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster might be on the conservative and pro-American LDP. So, PM Mr. Kan and his DPJ, though pro-Chinese and even pro-North Korean, have been reasonably in charge of the Government in these four months, so to speak. But, the condition seems to be changing now.
We may have a new prime minister in Japan in this summer if early, since no more hydrogen explosion looks likely in Fukushima Daiichi.
Mar 7:11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mar 7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Mar 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: