“In the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, it’s hard to fathom or describe the environmental damage to the Earth, because it eclipses all prior nuclear accidents by such a huge margin.
In the four years now since the earthquake caused the breakage of critical reactor cooling apparatus and plumbing to the point where the plants were not able to sustain or maintain the nearly one million gallons per reactor per minute, needed to cool them, the continued exposure to the entire world has continued unabated, unchecked.
Adequate cooling flow to prevent what is truly a “China Syndrome” was not possible even had the cooling system at Daichi survived the earthquake event.
At Daichi, where a reactor meltdown of no less than 3 operational reactors- which incidentally were fueled up with MOX fuel, a highly unstable form of nuclear fuel that not only mandates total cooling control, but ensures disastrous results if such cooling ‘fails’ as was the case in March of 2011 in Japan- we had a situation whereupon these 3 reactors were overheated beyond cooling within minutes.
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