Radiation has leaked all the way to Tokyo, over 100 miles away. Japan has keped all people away from the power plants. The problem all happened when the earthquake hit. The plants lost power with the quake that caused the circulation of the water what cooled the system to fail. This failure made a automatic system of bars to come up to help cool. The next step was for a generator to turn on and spray a coolant on the cores. That failed after a small about of time. The next step was for the steam to be condensed into a liquid form again and recirculated. There must have been a leak in the shell and it caused the level of liquid coolant to leak out and that raised the internal temperatures. Their next step was to pump in the local sea water into the cores to cool it. That water is extremely corrosive and would destroy the use of the cores. This worked for a few days. But steam and hydrogen built up and finally blew up. The death toll has risen to 2400 and no end in sight. Also there and many affected by the radiation levels.
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