(일본)후쿠시마 핵 재앙
(일본)후쿠시마 핵 재앙
Lucy Crap shows us the wreckage잔해 of the FUKUSHIMA nuclear plant
and finds the world came closer to catastrophe than we knew.
We learned this week that the disaster at Japan’s FUKUSHIMA DAHICHI power plant
was much worse than we thought!
Turns out after last spring’s tsunami, one reactor suffered a meltdown.
LUCY CRAP shows just how close it came from burning into the earth!
Recently, reporters got their first look at the devastation left in the wake of the accident!
Heavily reinforced buildings torn to shreds작은 조각 after serious meltdowns and explosions.
But as we found out this week, the damage was even worse.
Reactor number one, almost had a full meltdown.
A new report revealed that molten녹은 nuclear fuel burns thru the 8 foot concrete walls
of the first protective casing surrounding the reactor’s core
and then a 3 quarters of the way thru the second casing.
The meltdown stopped within a foot of the container’s steel bottom.
Masnori Naito was a nuclear engineer who has reviewed the plant’s finings.
“It was a close call위기일발” he says
“the meltdown may have been even worse.
But we can’t say the containment held.”
Held, according to the report, because of the huge efforts to dump a continuous flood of seawater in the reactors
to cool the nuclear cores.
If it burned thru, it would have contaminated the ground water in the soil!
No one knows how far it would have spread.
One man who has experienced the accident first hand was YUKIO TAKAYAMA,
a veteran firefighter who was sent to FUKUSHIMA 6 days after the accident!
He says he reminded me of a haunted귀신나오는 house,
total silence, billowing피어오르다 smoke, eerily무시무시한,
the fires you can feel the heat or smell the gas.
At Fukushima, it was all the more frightening,
because the danger was invisible.
So far, he has no signs of radiation poisoning,
nor do any of the other 32 members of his squad.
But that time, they were unsure they’d come back alive.
They didn’t believe the government’s assurances.
The TV was saying there was no meltdown, no radiation leaks, nothing to worry about, he recalls.
And he saw the damage knew this was no ordinary accident!
The plant’s operator says it’s on schedule for a cold shutdown by the end of this year.
That’s when fuel has cooled enough to no longer pose a threat!
But it’s a long process.
Dismantling해체하다 the reactor and cleaning up the plant could take 30 years.