Re: [Vo]:P.M. Kan orders evacuation from nuke plant

[Jed Rothwell]

The reactor is SCRAMed but the emergency diesel generators are not 
working so they cannot send enough cooling water to cool the core. 
Radiation levels are ~1000 times normal in the control room.

Like most Japanese nukes, this one right next to the ocean, and cooled 
with ocean water.

An earlier report in the New York Times. See photo of plant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12nuclear.html

- Jed