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Quake damage, nuclear crisis force 169 schools to relocate or close
SENDAI, May 16, Kyodo

A total of 169 public schools in Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures have been forced to temporarily relocate or close in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami due to damage to facilities and fear of radiation from a crippled nuclear power plant, local officials said Monday.

About 85 percent of the affected schools, or 145 of the total, have been able to restart lessons by borrowing classrooms at other schools or utilizing facilities at schools that had closed down before the disaster, according to the officials at the education boards.

The remaining 24 schools have been shut in Fukushima Prefecture, where the government has designated no-entry zones centering on a 20-kilometer radius from the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi complex. Pupils and students had to transfer to other schools in their respective evacuation destinations.
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where is everyone?

thanks for answering- I am always worried that when something really big happens this site will be shut donw

yes! it seems like the update is- Steam. and things are a lot worse than they were saying....

let me know what you think of his claims

I can't believe that amount of heavier quakes we are getting now. I feel that Japan is going to start getting larger ones as time goes by judging from what is happening around the rest of the region. Don't see how the reactors are going to continue to take the abuse from the tremors ?

@Bo, InCalifornia, personally from what I read so far and the reactor stats I keep seeing, I believe that all 3 reactors have melted down. Question is where is the corium ? Is it still active or is it slowly cooling off and solidifying itself ? Or is it still hot and currently melting through the concrete drywell and will at some future time (probably soon) hit the bedrock ?

@Bo thanks.

There was two hypothesis on what will happen when it hits the water in the bedrock. 1. It will make massive super hot steam (Steam explosion), 2. It will make massive amounts of hydrogen (Hydrogen explosion), neither are good outcomes.

@Bo, go ahead, another example, is of men at a dam that is cracking, running all over and sticking their fingers into the cracks trying to stop the water,as they watch the dam continue to crack.

From Physics Forums:
"Unit 3 SFP explosion
This weekend, Gundersen reiterates the "prompt moderated criticality" hypothesis, does not back away from that concept, despite previous criticism.
He cites high levels of I-131 in the Unit 3 stored fuel pool. Since the explosion was two months ago, and given the half-life of this isotope, says it is hard to explain the current level unless there was an original fission event to produce enough I-131 for several half-lives.
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Also he says that the fact Unit 4 SFP storage racks are intact means that physical fragments of plutonium MOX fuel, found 2 km from the reactor site, could only have come from the explosion of Unit 3 SFP. And calculates that a projectile distance two kilometers implies a supersonic launch velocity in the explosion. (Detonation in which the shock wave expanded faster than the speed of sound)"
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