Once the fuel rods that contain radioactive Plutonium and Uranium begin to melt within the inner six-inch thick stainless steel vessel, tremendous amounts of nuclear material are released into the air surrounding the nuclear plant. This graph indicates that any air over Japan will come to the United States within days. It is for certain that nuclear monitoring stations on the west coast of the United States will be closely monitoring the atmosphere for any nuclear particles.
This is a graph of the spread of RADS (which is
"unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to 100 ergs per gram or 0.01 joules per kilogram of irradiated material." according to Princeton) from the Fukushima Daiichi Plant from the Australian Radiator Services. A huge number of RADS can travel from Japan, all the way to the U.S. in a matter of 6 to 10 days.
Unbelievable Japan built a power station so close to a volcano and a fault line. Its a miracle that this did not happen years ago or was not any worse. Its time to lok at alternative energy sources. Cleaner and safer before we all go up in a puff of smoke
This blog post explains how social networks can play an important role during a crisis.
Over 4.5 million statuses on Facebook mentioned "japan"
25.000 of video responses on the crisis have been uploaded on youtube.
We are looking at the pros and cons of nuclear energy. After the Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011 we need to ask why was a nuclear power station built on a fault line and where are the others? from the people at goodtranparency (excellent website of infographics and data visualisation)