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1 Fukushima Dai-ichi - LinkLink

2 Boiling Water Reactor – Video LinkVideo Link

3 Nuclear Fuel

4 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

5 Spent Fuel Pool

6 Japan Nuclear Power Plants

7 Tsunami Friday, March 11, 2011 A magnitude 9.0 earthquake generated an estimated 45-foot tsunami at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

8 Plant On-site Flooding

9 Plant Equipment Flooding

10 Plant Flooding Illustration

11 Technical Summary - LinkLink

12 Accident Timeline

13 Unit 3 Hydrogen Explosion - LinkLink

14 Japan Evacuation

15 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.

16 NBC Aftermath Video – LinkLink

17 Plant Today - LinkLink

18 Additional Information - LinkLink


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