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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:05 PM
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Did you know there are a total of six reactors at the Fukushima site?
I didn't.

Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant
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The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant (福島第一原子力発電所, Fukushima Dai-Ichi Genshiryoku Hatsudensho?, Fukushima I NPP), often referred to as Fukushima Dai-ichi (Dai-ichi simply means first or number 1), is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, first commissioned in 1971. The plant consists of six boiling water reactors. These light water reactors have a combined power of 4.7 GW, making Fukushima I one of the 25 largest nuclear power stations in the world. Fukushima I was the first nuclear plant to be constructed and run entirely by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). The plant suffered major damage from the 9.0 earthquake and following tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, disabling the reactor cooling systems and triggering a widespread evacuation surrounding the plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:07 PM
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1. And when one gets to the point where operations are a suicide mission...
Edited on Tue Mar-15-11 07:07 PM by Junkdrawer
it's game over for all six.

Betcha reactor clusters will be banned after this.
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:08 PM
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3. Thats a good point. nt
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:07 PM
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2. Here is the status of each of them
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:12 PM
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5. Tells you something when the one that suffered a hydrogen explosion....
and partial meltdown is the one listed with no red.
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jannyk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:10 PM
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4. Yes, and all are in trouble of one form or another. nt
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CJvR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:12 PM
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6. Sort of...
...hard to miss if one pays attention to the average reporting.

Block 5 & 6 are in a separate building complex some 2-300 meters north of the first four IIRC.
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