Homework Help: Japan's Nuclear Crisis

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 6:28pm.

I don't know why. Please help me.

Why did the reactors at the Fukushima plant overheat?

Because of Nuclear power generation?

Japan's Nuclear Crisis - Writeacher, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 6:55pm
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Japan's Nuclear Crisis - Anonymous, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 7:01pm
This is information I found. Yet I dont understand.

Flooding the reactor sooner could have avoided the need to vent radioactive steam caused by overheating of fuel rods and an explosion caused when steam from the overheating water reacted with zirconium cladding that holds fuel pellets in the reactor vessel to produce hydrogen,

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