Thursday, March 17, 2011

Facts about the EarthQuake in Japan Please!!?

Question:


My homework is to do about the Earthquake in Japan, and i need facts about it, not about the tsunami but about the earthquakes. If 20 is too much then 10 facts please... Thank you

Answer:


1) Earthquake happened
2) Tsunami occurred cos of the earthquake
3) tsunami crushes several towns
4) earthquake damages a nuclear power plant
5) explosion occurs at power plant
6) several aftershocks
7) amount of deaths is in the 000s and feared to rise
8) Food, water and fuel are reported to be running short in some parts of Japan and large swathes of the country remain without power
9)The Tokyo stock market has plummeted for a second day despite billions of dollars being pumped into the banking system
10)Radiation levels around Fukushima have fallen, the plant's operator says, after they rose substantially above the legal limit earlier today

1. The explosions were not the burst of the atomic reactors. They were hydrogen-oxygen chemical reaction inside the outer buildings, cube buildings, called unit 1, 3 and 4.

2. Unit 4 got a fire as well.

3. The pressure suppression pool under unit 2 crushed and inner pressure might decrease from 3 to 1 atmosphere.

4. The nuclear chain reactions are stopped already.

5. However the radioactive isotope disintegration is creating high temperature heat. Need to be cool down.

6. It is a power plant, however, suffers from power stoppage.

7. Some parts of the fuel rods are damaged.

8. A 400 millisieverts per hour radiation dose were observed.

9. People who live within a 20 km, 12.5 miles, radius evacuated.

10. The green arrow is the unit 1 of Fukushima 1 nuke power plant. The cubes from top to bottom are Unit 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Unit 1 was built in 1970.

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