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Boiling Water Reactor – Video LinkVideo Link
Nuclear Fuel
Nuclear Power is Unique Decay Heat Does Not Go Away 1 second after scram = 6% of full power 1 minute after scram = 3% of full power 1 hour scram = 1.5% of full power 1 day scram = 0.75% of full power 1 week scram = 0.3% of full power
Spent Fuel Pool
Japan Nuclear Power Plants
Tsunami Friday, March 11, 2011 A magnitude 9.0 earthquake generated an estimated 45-foot tsunami at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Plant On-site Flooding
Plant Equipment Flooding
Plant Flooding Illustration
Technical Summary - LinkLink
Accident Timeline
Unit 3 Hydrogen Explosion - LinkLink
Japan Evacuation
Nuclear Accident Costs TEPCO estimates cleanup costs could run as high as $125 billion over the next 10 years. All but one of the Japanese nuclear plants are still shut down. Germany has decided to abandon nuclear power. Eight reactors in the country have so far been shuttered.
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