you were not being rude, i am aware japan lies on the ring of fire, so do several other places in the world.
What sets japan apart from others on the ring of fire is that it meets at a tripod of tectonic plates. The Pacific Plate, The Philippine sea plate, and Eurasian plate
yet i do this every day in Zm.
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I still don't understand what exactly is happening at the power plants. I have a cursory understanding on how they work, but here we have explosions and people aren't exactly freaking out... and these things have been pretty much off since what saturday? Wouldn't they have the control rods balls deep in those reactors within minutes of the quake? Why are they still hot?
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bsically, we don't get electricity from radiation. the way it works is that the fuel undergoes fission, which produces heat. lots, and LOTS of heat. this heat is high enough to cause the metal caseing of the core to spontaneously combust, BUT there are pipes of coolant flowing all through the core. this coolant absorbs the heat, and becomes super hot. the coolant pipes lead out from the core and water (plain water) is exposed to these now super hot pipes. that makes steam, which turns turbines.
the control rods only absorb radioactive particles, so they stop the fission. BUT it's still hot as fuck. a SCRAM (term used for emergency shutdown of a reactor) doesn't cool it immediately, it simply halts the production of radioactive shit. After all, to take something as hot as a reactor core and cool it down in a short time, even a whole day would cause the entire unit to explode (hot suddenly cold = shatter)
tl;dr the news media is blowing this out of proportion. they've been pumping seawater in to maintain core integrity. it's fine