Apocalypse
The scenes from Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami this week exposed the third largest economy to apocalypse levels of destruction and obliteration, described by their Prime Minister as the worst disaster to befall his country since the Second World War. Earthquakes are common to Japan and no country is better prepared for them. Indeed had it only been an earthquake without the Tsunami there would have been lesser loss of life than from the smaller scale earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand two weeks earlier. It was the Tsunami that came off the earthquake from 8 miles off Japan’s coastline that reaped the havoc causing the 10,000 lives lost so far where the final toll could be much more.
Meltdown
With two explosions reported in two of the three nuclear power plants, the fear of a nuclear meltdown of these reactors is real and could be more devastating that the Tsunami. It is to be hoped that the significant safety precautions at these plants will prove to be sufficient to prevent a nuclear meltdown. The signs are that the reactors are secure but the effects of radiation let into the atmosphere from a meltdown would take this disaster beyond comprehension. We can only hope that the safety precautions at these plants hold.
Apocalypse / Meltdown
Apocalypse
The scenes from Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami this week exposed the third largest economy to apocalypse levels of destruction and obliteration, described by their Prime Minister as the worst disaster to befall his country since the Second World War. Earthquakes are common to Japan and no country is better prepared for them. Indeed had it only been an earthquake without the Tsunami there would have been lesser loss of life than from the smaller scale earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand two weeks earlier. It was the Tsunami that came off the earthquake from 8 miles off Japan’s coastline that reaped the havoc causing the 10,000 lives lost so far where the final toll could be much more.
Meltdown
With two explosions reported in two of the three nuclear power plants, the fear of a nuclear meltdown of these reactors is real and could be more devastating that the Tsunami. It is to be hoped that the significant safety precautions at these plants will prove to be sufficient to prevent a nuclear meltdown. The signs are that the reactors are secure but the effects of radiation let into the atmosphere from a meltdown would take this disaster beyond comprehension. We can only hope that the safety precautions at these plants hold.