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Nuclear Disaster Looms on Tokyo, Japan
Mar 17th
Crisis escalates as blast blows hole in reactor building and exposes nuclear fuel to atmosphere. The nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating towards Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and others to stock up on essential supplies.
The crisis appeared to escalate late in the day when the operators of the facility said one of the two blasts had blown a hole in the building housing a reactor, which meant spent nuclear fuel was exposed to the atmosphere.
Fearing the worst, countries & companies have started evacuation. France sounds the Alarm and says Japan isLosing control.
Overheating, meltdown woes mount at reactors. As the radiation steam rises, hopes are falling.
Day 4: Japan Earthquake
Mar 15th
Two days after an explosion at reactor No. 1 in Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Saturday, another one, in reactor No. 3, blew the roof off a building on Monday.
The problems at Fukushima Daiichi could be the most serious involving a nuclear plant since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986
A partial meltdown can occur when radioactive fuel rods, which are normally in water, remain uncovered for too long
The 2 reactors hit by explosions may have already suffered partial meltdowns. Full meltdowns could release catastrophic amounts of radiation.
Contrary to rumours, there was no report of any radiation travelling outside Japan’s territory. The country’s nuclear power watchdog said readings taken soon after the explosion showed no big change in radiation levels around the plant or any damage to the containment vessel.
Day 3 after the Japan Earthquake
Mar 14th
Japan struggled to avert a nuclear disaster and care for millions of people without power or water.
Estimated 10,000 people or more have got killed in this earthquake and tsunami.
Emergency declared at another Nuclear plant, Onagawa, with high radiation levels.
About 200,000 people around plants evacuated. No danger yet of radiation travelling beyond the country.
Japan faces risk of second explosion at Fukushima Nuclear plant, 240km north of Tokyo, where a blast in reactor 1 on Saturday blew away the roof.
Rising heat in all three reactors at the plant has raised fears of overheated fuel rods exploding or melting the container housing the core.
Meltdown of reactor 3 could be more serious as it is fuelled by plutonium and uranium. Other units have only uranium. Workers trying to cool rods with seawater.
Japan, with 54 reactors, is world’s 3rd largest generator of nuclear power.
Japan suffered world’s only Nuclear holocaust in 1945, killing 1.5 to 2.4 lakh people.
Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
Apr 10th
On Saturday 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154M of the Polish 36th Special Aviation Regiment crashed next to Smolensk-North Airport, just outside Smolensk near Pechyorsk, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, killing all 96 aboard, as well as President Lech Kaczyński.
Information about the cause of the crash is still unverified. News agencies statement says that the pilot attempted four times to land in heavy fog, ignoring the guidance of the ground control to divert to a safer airport, either in Minsk or Moscow.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that the bodies of all of the victims would be flown to Moscow for identification.
Polish and Russian authorities confirmed that all 96 people on the aircraft died in the mishap. It was among the most awful disasters in Polish record by death-toll, and at the time it was the most deadly aircraft crash in 2010.
The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.
