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On March 16, 2011 a Nuclear Explosion happend in [|Fukoshima Japan]. It happened because there was a huge Earthquake that occurred in Japan. Now because of this, many villagers may die within weeks[1]. Now workers are trying to plug the leaks in the power plants so it doesn't start to leak into the Pacific Ocean[2]. Fragments of fuel were blown out of the nuclear power plant when it blew up in Fukoshima. Even though the reactor blew up far from some families it still affected them[3]. and because of the way a **Nuclear Power plant works** this doesn't happen often.

__ **Fukoshima Nuclear Accident** __
Evidence arose of a partial [|core meltdown] in reactors 1,2,and 3 hydrogen explosions destroyed the upper cladding of the buildings housing reactors 1,3,and 4 an explosion damaged the containment inside reactor 2 and multiple fires broke out at reactor. A nuclear meltdown is a good term for a severe [|nuclear reactor] accident. Reactors 1–4 began to overheat as water levels in the pools dropped. Now town officials are consumed with the evacuation of It is a tragic tale of an entire community evacuated in the quake of the world’s largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. The Japan nuclear power plant was shut down and in a maintenance outrage at the time of the April 7th earthquake. Off-site power was lost. Emergency power supply to the site was operated as expected until the site power was restored. All the fuel had been removed from the reactor core and stored in the spent fuel pool. Cooling of the spent fuel pool is operational. A major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended.[4]

The effects of the Nuclear Explosion
Samples of some seawater in Japan are being tested to see how bad the drinking water is. They need to do this because if they don't, people won't know the water has radiation in it or not and they will get very sick and possibly die if the water has radiation in it. In Japan the Nuclear power plant workers are pumping nitrogen in to some of the reactors in a attemt to stop dangerous over heating rods[5]. Deadly levels have been detected in by the stricken Japan nuclear power plant. Japanese government officials say there was shaking and a trail of white smoke at a Nuclear power plant in Fukoisima Japan. Most likely steam or heat rising from the Nuclear power Plant. After the explosion of the nuclear reactor at Fukoshima, radiation dangers threaten Japanese citizens. Although about 11 thousand residents with a radius of 10 km have been evacuated, but authorities still urge all residents to stay indoors and avoid out from home without covering their skin.[6]



What it is like to live with radiation From the Plant
About 50,000 inhabitants who lived closest to the plant have been evacuated or have fled since radiation levels started to rise after the March 11th tsunami in Japan—which also left at least 1,400 of the town’s residents dead or missing. Even though external radiation has since returned to near-harmless levels, people are still trying to stay safe and not get sick. It is very hard living with radiation because of all of the plants that are being hit with radiation people can get very sick. What also is efecting Fukoshima, Japan is the water that they use to drink[7]. In Units 1, 2 and 3, 60 000 tons of contaminated water need to be removed from the turbine buildings and trenches. This water will be transferred to the condensers of each unit and the Radioactive Waste Treatment facility. In addition, temporary storage tanks have been ordered to provide additional capacity for the water and will be located adjacent to the Radioactive Waste Treatment facility. In Unit 2 water transfer from the condenser to the condensate storage tank was completed on 9 April.

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Was this Nuclear Crisis as bad as the one in Chernobyl?
Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the [|1986 Chernobyl disaster]— even as it insisted Tuesday that the radiation leaks are declining at its tsunami destroyed nuclear plant. The higher rating is an open acknowledgement of what was widely understood already. The nuclear accident at the Fukushima Nuclear power plant is the second-worst in history.(The worst was chernobyl, and Three Mile island is one of the worst to) It does not signal a worsening of the plant's status in recent days or any new health dangers. Still, people living nearby who have endured a month of spewing radiation and frequent earthquakes said the change in status added to their unease despite government efforts to play down any notion that the crisis poses immediate health risks.

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**References **
 * 1) Di-Natale, Dominic. "Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: 'Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks'." FOX NEWS, 31 Web. 1 Mar. 2011. .
 * 2) "Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Severs Town’s Economic Lifeline, Setting Evacuees Adrift." [NY, US]. 2 Apr. 2011. Web. 1 Jan. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/asia/03futaba.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=nuclear%20disaster%20in%20japan%202011&st=cse
 * 3) "Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Severs Town’s Economic Lifeline, Setting Evacuees Adrift." [NY, US]. 2 Apr. 2011. Web. 1 Jan. .
 * 6) SIEMASZKO, Corky . "Japan nuclear crisis: Pool of radioactive water found OUTSIDE Fukushima Daiichi plant."NY daily news, 28 Mar. 2011. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. [].
 * 7) "Coping with Japan's nuclear disaster." //Living with radiation//. The Economist, 7 Apr. 2011. Web. 1 Jan. .