The Disaster following the earthquake and tsunami was horrible and devastating. This is the largest japanese nuclear disaster since 1986 but some people are saying that is was actually worse than that. When the earthquake hit, there were 2 reactors that were in “shutdown mode”. After the earthquake, the other reactors automatically shutdown and were being cooled down by waterpumps however the tsumai hit and the plant was flooded in almsot 50 feet of water which made the pumps shutdown and caused the plant to start to overheat. After all of that, there came more disaster, reactors 1-3 went through a complete “meltdown”. People by this time don’t know what to do.
All I can think about are the people working to try to keep this reactor from exploading because they are very close to death, there would be absolutely no way to escape from the explosion, those men and women are extremely brave.
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As of now Tamil Nadu Jayalalithaa Chief Minister is telling the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh to stop the project of keeping the nuclear power plant safe which i believe to be completely outrageous because an explosion like that is not just a bad wind storm, it is death in the form of an explosion. the Chief Minister says that he still believes that the pre cautions taken after the disaster to maintain the plant are not ill intentioned however it seems unnecesary to continue with this when there is no longer a further threat or harm. The people need power and they need this energy source. so what is being said is that is needs to be taken into consideration the thought or making another source of energy or in my opinion a completely new power plant.
There was no reason to think that this power plant was going to breakdown at any point so there was no pre cautions to take so this was a freak accident that could not have been prevented.
In my opinion, im glad we are going to see the movie and not going to the nuclear reactor because although they are completely safe until they’re not…its still outrageously nerveraking to think about entering something that could potentially in seconds destroy hundreds of lives.