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Nuclear Disaster in Japan There was a nuclear reaction at a uranium processing plant in Japan that has brought an enormous amount of people to stay indoors, to stop farming, and to have many schools closed down. There was a large amount of radiation spilt and researchers estimate that there was up to 39 people that were exposed to high amounts of radiation. The town in which this radiation accidents occurred was in Tokaimura. Tokaimura is …

…cooling equipment to try and keep the radiation in one area to keep if from further nuclear fissioning. On early Friday morning the radiation levels had been cut to about 1/5 the level at which the crisis happened. A similar accident has occurred only once in the United State, and that was in 1964 at a fuel processing plant in Wood River Junction, R.I. We hope that this will never happen again in any countries history.