Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Causes - - RT Video Showing Nuclear Safter Measures at Kaliniskaya Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima Power Plant Explosions

MOSCOW, Russia - - After the recent nuclear disaster in Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and the 25^th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear calamity; the world has awaken and nuclear safety has come under fresh scrutiny.

RT (Russia Today) has visited Kaliniskaya nuclear power plant, which is just 330 km from Moscow, in the Tver Region. Its third energy unit was launched in 2005, but the original designs go back to the 1980s. Since then, all the equipment has been replaced with the latest technology.

Uranium is used in the Kaliniskaya, which heats up the water with the process of fission and so generates electricity. Generally, when there is an accident or anything goes wrong, the reactor at Kaliniskaya power plant shuts down with special control rods, which stop the process of fission. 

In the analysis of nuclear disaster in Japan we come to know that there was a successful shutdown at Fukushima-1, after the water circulation system was damaged as a result of the March 11 earthquake. But even the successful shutdown of plant the fission went on. There was a lingering process which goes on for several days.

A special diesel operated back-up system was supposed to prevent the rods from overheating with the left-over fission going on; but the tsunami, which followed the earthquake, damaged the back-up system. And this led to the rods heating up and causing a build-up of air pressure and ultimately to a series of explosions.