makingmusic476 on 11 March 2011
Definitely trouble at the Fukushima power station:
| BBC 23:10GMT: More from the Tokyo Electric Power Company: It says the ability to control pressure in some of the reactors at Fukushima-Daini has been lost. Pressure is stable inside the reactors, but rising in the containment vessels, a company spokesman says. |
| 10.45pm GMT: Now there are reports from nuclear plant operator Tepco that the Fukushima No 2 plant has lost cooling to three of its reactors. It was one reactor in the Fukushima No 1 plant that had been the cause for concern earlier – so this news is certainly unwelcome. |
And both coastal Japan and the Earth's axis have been shifted:
| The US Geological Survey is reporting that the coast of Japan has shifted 8 feet (2.4m) because of the earthquake in Japan. The Earth's axis has reportedly been shifted 10 inches too. |
| The force of the quake was so strong that it moved the island of Honshu 8 feet to the east, said USGS geophysicist Ken Hudnut. It sped up the Earth's rotation by 1.6 microseconds, according to NASA |
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