Fukushima Nuclear Plants
For many years Japan has reported that some of their nuclear plants were damaged at the time of the earthquake and the tsunami that followed. And now they are going to empty radioactive water off the coast of Japan.
A nuclear plant operates quite simply. You need a lot of uranium which gets very hot. You need to run water around the hot uranium. This creates steam, lots of it, which turns the turbines that create electricity. The same way that water runs through dams and it spins the turbines as it flows through and creates electricity.
The most complicated part of a nuclear plant besides putting it together is what to do with this water that has flowed over the uranium and what to do with the steam that it created. This water and steam will be highly radioactive.
Japan has a much larger problem with the radioactive water because 3 nuclear plants exploded 10 years ago... but the uranium is still inside somewhere - and they've been pumping sea water on to that uranium to keep it cool enough so that it doesn't explode like a Hiroshima bomb.
BUT!
And this is true!
At this time there are NO FACILITIES FOR PERMANENT DISPOSAL OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE! - The Water & the old Uranium (and the other bad shit that's created by the uranium chemical reaction).
No problem, the plutonium (that's part of the bad shit) should be decayed in approximately 24 Thousand years!
Japan has been pumping water onto uranium for 10 years. They are storing the run-off in large container vessels, hundreds of them, that look like the oil container vessels at a petroleum refineries.
Japan never admitted, or I never read or heard them say, that unit number THREE exploded hundreds of feet into the air! (see video)
And unit ONE exploded horizontally.
Unit number FOUR also exploded but I didn't find any video on that one.
Newly released high resolution video showing explosion of Fukushima
Plant number 3
Then plant number 1
https://youtu.be/PDKgKNP6c1U?t=138s
I only came across this new information because I was searching to see what other countries of the world were saying about Japan's plan to release the radioactive water off of their Coast. The only protests or backlash that I came across was from young people living in Japan and fishermen living along the coast where the Fukushima plants are.
Worst nuclear plant disasters.
Chernobyl, UK (1986) - a steam explosion blew the reactor apart. With no water to cool the uranium it melted through the floor and is currently a large mound infamously known as "the elephant's foot".
Fukushima Daiichi, JP (2011) - the three damaged cores (of uranium) boiled dry and slowly heated up over hours until the uranium melted. Then shit blew up. (See this paper for an in-depth explanation: https://cogentoa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23312009.2015.1049111 )
