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I fall that very closely. there was no structural damage to that facility. the earthquake in japan knocked out the primary electrical supply, and then the tsunami came in and drowned out the secondary backup electrical supply. that meant that the pumps could not circulate the water through the reactors to cool a fuel rods. elected the fuel rods melting down, three meltdowns. plus the votes of a fight engine gas and several of the facilities leading to three hydrogen explosions. so, the structures were intact. it was a lack of electricity that caused the damage, caused them all down. that's whe...

The month of that disaster. you would see the failure of, say, the electricity or the pumping systems, the cooling system would no longer be cooling the rods. the rods would heat up dramatically, causing a thermal reaction that would melt the fuel rods that would probably melt the whole core of the reactor right through the bottom of the containment vessel that's there. you could see that result in this development of hydrogen gases inside the reactor, leading to an explosion of the hydrogen gas. at fukushima, we had three meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions. if you get an explosion like that...

9.0 earthquake, unleashing a tsunami with waves 13 stories high, swallowing entire towns hole. 15,000 dead, a second disaster was just brewing. >> the powerful earthquake that has hit japan. >> reporter: i was in tokyo when the earthquake struck. my team and i drove north towards the tsunami zone and past the fukushima daiichi plant. we would wchbs the hydrogen explosions and later learn it was the visible sign of a triple meltdown, the disaster rained invisible and dangerous radiation across fuk fuk's neighborhoods. towns turned into empty shells. 160,000 people fled, children and pregnant wo...

>> translator: emperor and empress will leave the facility. >> translator: next, we will have a word of mourning with mr. yokomichi. >> the head of the lower house. we're watching the memorial service live from tokyo one year after the massive earthquake and tsunami, which left almost 16,000 people dead. more than 3,000 are missing. so far we've heard from both the prime minister and the importantly the emperor, who is 79 years of age in poor health, just recently recovered from heart surgery. he has now left. his doctors told him to limit his time there because of hi healhis healt...