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Fukushima Daiichi

SOME ANSWERS TO LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI FIRST OF ALL, IT'S PRONOUNCED IT'S ON THE EASTERN COAST OF JAPAN FUKUSHE MA EE“ CHEE IN BETWEEN THE CITIES OF TOKYO SENDAI THE EARTHQUAKE INITIALLY KNOCKED OUT POWER TO THE COOLING SYSTEM. BACKUP DIESEL GENERATORS CAME ON-LINE WHICH EARTHQUAKE WERE THEN KNOCKED OUT BY THE TSUNAMI TOKYO SENDAI POPULATION POPULATION 35 MARCH 11, 2011 MAGNITUDE 9.0 MILLION REACTORS MILLION REACTORS ELECTRIC COOLING SYSTEM GENERATORS DAIICHI REACTORS 1-4 HAVE ALL BEEN PARTIALLY OR TOTALLY DESTROYED BY EXPLOSIONS OR FIRE. ADDITIONALLY: FUKUSHIMA JAPAN REACTOR I IS PRESUMED TO HAVE HAD A PARTIAL MELTDOWN, 50 MILE EVACUATION ZONE | POPULATION REACTOR 2 IS PRESUMED TO HAVE HAD A PARTIAL MELTDOWN RECOMMENDED BY 16 US EMBASSYI MILLION REACTOR 3 IS PRESUMED TO HAVE HAD A PARTIAL MELTDOWN, REACTOR 4 WAS OFFLINE FOR MAINTENANCE, BUT CONTAINED SPENT FUEL RODS WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO AIR. REACTORS 5 AND 6 ARE SHUT DOWN AND THE BUILDINGS ARE NOT DAMAGED BUT THERE IS CONCERN THAT THE SPENT FUEL RODS THEY CONTAIN MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED. ACTUALLY, ALL OF THE REACTORS STORED SPENT FUEL RODS WHICH ARE RADIOACTIVE SENDAI O 12-19 MILE STAY INDOORS POPULATION ZONE MANDATED BY 62 JAPANESE GOVERNMENT THOUSAND 12 MILE EVACUATIONI POPULATION ZONE MANDATED BY7 JAPANESE GOVERNMENT THOUSAND AND CONTAIN RESIDUAL WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT SOME HEAT. THEY NEED TO BE RADIATION HAS MADE ITS KEPT COOL CONSTANTLY WAY AS FAR EAST AS CALIFORNIA IF THE POOLS IN WHICH EXPERTS INSIST THEY ARE KEPT BECOME THAT IT HAS BEEN SO DEPLETED, THE SPENT DISPERSED AS TO NOT BE FUEL RODS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO HUMANS. EXPOSED TO AIR. THIS CAN CAUSE THE RODS TO RELEASE TOKYO IN 1990, THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY RADIATION, OVERHEAT, AND CATCH FIRE. AGENCY INTRODUCED THE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL EVENT SCALE SO SEVERITY OF EVENTS CAN BE COMMUNICATED QUICKLY THE INES SCALE ONE OF THE BY-PRODUCTS OF A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT SUCH AS THIS IS IODINE 137 IT IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT EMITS WAVES OVER SHORT RANGES THAT MAJOR ACCIDENT CHERNORYL CAN CAUSE CANCER IN THE THYROID THYROID WHICH ACCUMULATES IODINE. POTASSIUM IODIDE PILLS MAY SERIOUS ACCIDENT ACCIDENT WITH OFF-SITE RISK 3 MILE ISLAND BE TAKEN TO SATURATE THE THYROID AND THUS POTASSIUM IODIDE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI| IS CURRENTLY RATED ACCIDENT WITHOUT SIGMIFICANT OFF-SITE RISK PROTECT IT FROM THE RADIOACTIVE IODINE. 5 SERIOUS INCIDENT THE DESIGN OF FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI PREVENTS IT FROM REACHING THE LEVEL OF THE CHERNOBYL BUT SOME EXPERTS THINK IT'S WORSE ACCIDENT, HOWEVER, A FINAL OPTION BEING CONSIDERED IS TO BURY THE ENTIRE PLANT UNDER SAND AND CONCRETE TO PREVENT A CATASTROPHIC RELEASE OF RADIATION, WHICH WAS WHAT THEY FINALLY DID AT CHERNOBYL. INCIDENT TABLET ANOMALY SOURCES: NEW YORK TIMES, CNN, WIKIPEDIA, REUTERS | TABLETINFOGRAPHICS.COM

Fukushima Daiichi

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I made this infographic during the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi to answer lingering questions that kept coming up in conversations with friends.

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