Radiation level rising in Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant turbine building, Kyodo News Agency reports.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing with a nuclear power plant?
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The death toll from the massive earthquake in Japan will likely surpass 1,000, the Kyodo News Agency reported.
I know that's a LOT of people but considering the amount of people condensesed in Japan and around Tokyo, that's not a lot, right? <img src='
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@NPP; If the rising radiation level is measured outside of the NPP, then that's a very bad thing. The worst that could happen would be a nuclear meltdown like in Tschernobyl, but of course that's an absolute worst-case-scenario.
In NPP Fukushima is right now running on internal "battery" electricity and this also means it's cooling system can not run properly infinitely.
Apparently Miyagi prefecture has a lot of fires.
This earthquake can not be easily compared to the Kanto or Kobe earthquakes (and their death toll) because of it's location and especially since the Kanto earthquake 1923 the housing and overall security in Japan has increased enormously. If this earthquake would have taken place in the Sagami bay, where the Kanto earthquake was, there would have been far more deaths, that's for sure.
Also, the people now are way better organized than back then. People know they have to put out their gas etc.
Incidentally I just wrote a paper about the housing in the first part of the 20th century in Tokyo and also wrote about how the Kanto earthquake changed the landscape of Tokyo forever.
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Also, here is a stream of TBS News HD:
http://salmon.gundam.eu/streaman/
