<While this is being published on April 1st, this is most
assuredly NOT an April Fools Joke> Its now been three full weeks
since the Tohoku Daishinsai, the Great North-East Earthquake of
March 11 2011. What I'd like to focus on in the next series of
posts are continuing after effects of the 3-11 earthquake.
Located roughly 140 miles North-East of Tokyo is the Tokyo
Electric Power Co, TEPCO, Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power
plant. At this facility are six reactors. When the earthquake
hit several of the reactors were in operation and scrammed, shut
down. But with the ensuing tsunami and 600+ high intensity after
shocks over the next several days the facility was damaged and
the power supply to cool the radioactive fuel was interrupted.
Reactors 1-6 at Fukushima. 1-4 are the reactors in crisis. This
caused overheating and water pressure build-up and eventually,
hydrogen explosions in several of the reactor buildings. But the
real danger of contamination came when the the fuel rods at some
of the buildings began