We have to interrupt our regular scheduled sports and sports media programming to talk about something much more important. As you’ve no doubt heard, a natural disaster of epic proportions has occurred in Japan.
An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the richter scale set off a tsunami, and possibly caused a nuclear meltdown.
30 million people ‘may be experiencing nuclear meltdown’ 12 Mar 2011
A Japanese nuclear power plant exploded today, television footage showed, a day after a massive earthquake damaged the facility’s cooling system, as nearby residents were warned to stay indoors. Nuclear authorities had earlier warned that the Fukushima No 1 plant, located about 250km northeast of Tokyo, an urban area of 30 million people, “may be experiencing a nuclear meltdown”.
The plant’s cooling system was damaged in the quake that hit yesterday, leaving the government scrambling to fix the problem and evacuate more than 45,000 residents within a 10km radius. Public broadcaster NHK today said that a blast had been heard at about 3.30pm local time and showed delayed footage of smoke billowing from the site, also reporting that the reactor building had been destroyed.
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