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A look back at Japan's nuclear crisis, initiated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAs an avid reader of SciAm for more than 20 years, I feel compelled to point out some glaring errors in your Fukushima timeline for March 15. "A hydrogen explosion (left) occurs in the Unit 2 building; officials suspect that part of the unit's primary containment structure is damaged." This never happened. TEPCO has denied it since March. They found out that a seismic pulse from the unit #4 explosion reverberated inside the #2 PCV causing a "loud impulsive sound". AThusw, there was no damage to the #2 PCV from any sort of explosion.
Also, "A fire breaks out in the Unit 4 reactor building. Japanese authorities believe that the spent fuel storage pool is burning, releasing radiation into the atmosphere..." The spent fuel fire notion came from The US NRC chairman on March 16. TEPCO vehemently denied it from the start. The NRC retracted in June, but Chair Jaczko had declined comment. The fire was in an air-conditioning unit two floors below the spent fuel pool level.
Sincerely,
Leslie Corrice
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