Pacific Ring of Fire (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Meanwhile, we are smarter:
If someone had asked how many nuclear reactors possess the land, how many people would have known the correct answer before the nuclear disaster in Japan?
Who would have known it, 55 nuclear power plants are in Japan, a world region that has traditionally been the most affected by the earthquake regions of our planet, and another 11 that are under construction.
An "anti-nuclear" movement is, we are told, quite unknown in Japan. The nuclear energy is so apparently expanded in complete agreement with the vast majority of the population.
At least that is amazing - also because Japan really terrible experience in 1945 with the dropping of two atomic bombs American made, but obviously it did not influenced in its pursuit of nuclear energy. Who would have known that it is the reactor units 1-6 at Fukushima to is very old plants and are not "state of the art" facilities? The Fukushima blocks 1-6 are 41, 37, 35, 33, 33 and 32 years old, what z. B. has importance for a possible fatigue when it now comes to the stability of the reactor capsule in a threatening meltdown.
Fukushima 1: Start of construction in 1967, the network 1971
Fukushima 2: start of construction in 1969, the network 1974
Fukushima 3: Construction begins in 1970, the network 1976
Fukushima 4: Start of construction in 1973, the network 1978
Fukushima 5: Start of construction in 1972, the network 1978
Fukushima 6: Start of construction in 1973, the network 1979
Who would have guessed that the Japanese power plants were not structurally set up on a really big earthquake, not to mention the effects of a tsunami?
For decades, the obvious has been overlooked, suppressed, not discussed, it seems.
The geology of Japan is explosive but known: For know, the earth's surface is not a fixed mass, the resting brazen in itself, but the earth's crust / mantle are divided into so-called tectonic plates that move..
Unfortunately, they do not move all in the same direction, but often even against each other, with each other, move to "dive mutually". Due to the drift of the plates of rock masses can be deformed, which can cause earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanic eruptions to huge.
Japan had often to suffer the consequences of such events in its history. As in Iceland, which lies at the interface of two continental plates (the Eurasian and North American), learns in Japan also have every child in the school with the consequences, the possibility of more frequent earthquakes deal.
Movement of the continental plates (kl. Arrows image in the public domain)
Unlike Iceland, however, Japan is located on the geological fracture zone of four tectonic plates of the Earth's crust in the northern part of the North American plate, in the west of the Eurasian plate, in the south of the Philippines and east of the Pacific plate. This move per year to a few cm up to today.
The Pacific plate pushes it under the Eurasian plate, which leads in principle to a reduction of the Pacific. Basically, there is enlargement or expansion zones and reduction or subduction zones.
About such a volcanic subduction zone "enthrone" the four main Japanese islands. They are part of the so-called. Pacific "Ring of Fire", a volcanic ring, like a ring in the Pacific places and many island groups into account, including Japanese islands.
03.13.2011: outbreak of Shinmoe-dake (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
In this Subduktionsszonen lighter oceanic crusts oceanic crusts from other dive under or under the heavier continental crusts and they are virtually "untergetunkt" of the latter. Rock is then in great depth melted down, releasing the previously bound water in the rock again, pushed magma up - it is a volcanic eruption.
Here an impressive list of volcanoes on the islands of Japan.
The Fuji, Japan's sacred and highest mountain, 3776 m: a volcano (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The Japanese "sacred" mountain, the National Shrine Fuji is, one suspects it, actually a volcano.
So it breaks down completely logical that after the great earthquake of magnitude 9 on 11 March, on March 13, also a volcanic eruption followed: that of the Shinmoe-dake.
Japan will continue to rely on the atom?
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Tags: nuclear disaster , fire ring , Fuji , Fukushima , continental drift , Shonmoe-dake
Japan is an economic power in a cul de sac. Either they do business as usual and live with the enormous risk or whether renounce nuclear energy and risk their prosperity. I think they will continue to choose the risk.
Hello! On our website we have posted a translated interview on Ring of Fire, in particular, the urgent issues to be resolved through correlations with solar activity, and the interaction of the magnetic field of the Sun and Earth: http://bueso.de/node/9710
If you want to include the interview on your page, it is also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bompvwo4iK4&feature=channel_video_title
In addition, in the coming days, an update will be released to the various geologists in Russia and America say more quakes for Kamchatka and California ahead.
Regards,
Daniel