The reactors at Fukushima still have their full load of uranium from when they were operating. Radiation levels are far too high to have permitted workers to remove any, also there is the structural damage that has probably jammed fuel rods in place which would prevent removal without demolishing the reactors first.
There were six reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. At the time of the earthquake, three of these, reactors 1, 2, and 3, were operating. Reactor 4 was shut down for refueling, and reactors 5 and 6 were in cold shutdown.
Uranium-235 and uranium-238 are different isotopes of the element uranium. They have different mass numbers due to different numbers of neutrons.
What do you mean. Uranium is not soluble in water.
The tsunami on 11 March 2011 caused damage and ultimately shutdown of three nuclear reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex in Japan. Residents within a 20 km (12 mi) radius of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant were requested to evacuate during the accident.
Uranium is a non metal element. There are 92 electrons in a single atom.
Fukushima Daiichi uses Uranium-235, at a slightly enriched ratio of about 5%.
Uranium is the radioactive material element used in nuclear reactors, including the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. Uranium undergoes fission reactions, releasing energy that is used to generate electricity.
Fukushima
Specialists think that a more severe accident is not possible now at Fukushima.
Fukushima is the name of a prefecture on Honshu Island, the largest island of Japan. It is also the name of a city in the prefecture. Fukushima became well known to many people because of a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which is in Fukushima Prefecture.
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There are two Fukushima nuclear power plants, both of which are in the Fukushima district on the east coast. Fukushima Daiichi, where the meltdowns happened, is at a town called Okuma. Fukushima Daini, is at a town called Naraha.
Naoshi Fukushima died in 2003.
Naoshi Fukushima was born in 1925.
Glen Fukushima was born in 1949.