What can happen in a week?



Friday, 11 March: A 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Honshu Island at a depth of about 24 kilometres (15 mi). The Fukushima I power plant’s nuclear reactors 1, 2, and 3 are automatically shut down by the shake.

Saturday, 12 March: Emergency battery power for the high pressure core-flooder system for reactor 3 runs out,

Sunday, 13 March: Core damage starts occurring in reactor 3.

Monday, 14 March: The unit 3 reactor building explodes, injuring six workers. According to TEPCO there was no release of radioactive material beyond that already being vented, but blast damage affected the water supply to unit 2.

13:15: The reactor core isolation cooling system for reactor 2 stops and, shortly afterwards, the water level within the reactor starts falling.

18:00 (approximate): The water level in reactor 2 reaches the top of the fuel.

20:00: Core damage starts occurring in reactor 2

Tuesday, 15 March: An explosion in the “pressure suppression room” causes some damage to unit 2’s containment system. A fire beaks out at unit 4 involving exposed spent fuel rods from the reactor, which are normally kept in a water-filled spent fuel pool to prevent overheating. Radiation levels at the plant rise significantly but subsequently fall. Radiation equivalent dose rates of 400 millisieverts per hour (400 mSv/h) are observed at one location in the vicinity of unit 3.

Wednesday, 16 March: At approximately 14:30 TEPCO announces its belief that the fuel rod storage pool of unit 4 — which is located outside the containment area — may have begun boiling, raising the possibility that exposed rods could reach criticality.

All information from Wikipedia


  1. Our Ceasing Voice – The Only Ones Dead (Are Those Who Are Forgotten)
  2. Collapse Under The Empire – The Silent Death
  3. The Picturesque Episode – Tokyo Pulse
  4. Sey Hollo – Eighty percent
  5. …With a Sword on a Horse – The Sail Blows Windward (Remix)
  6. The Jakesperiment – Duka getar, Skala ombak, akan sembuh tersapu alam
  7. Asfandyar Khan – About Her
  8. Circadian Eyes – A Careful Hope
  9. The Tumbled Sea – Jill (Part I)
  10. Takahiro Kido – Heavy Smoker’s Forest
  11. Infinite Third – Genshukuna (Solemn)
  12. 6LA8 – Sleeping People Can’t Fall Down
  13. The Veldt – /[This Rain]
  14. evolv – Alluring
  15. Taiga Blues – Neuanfang
  16. Armand Tanzarian – 浪漫的一夜情
  17. a slow in dance – 6.12
  18. We Are Pioneers – Now That We’re Alone
  19. We – We Will Reunite Again One Day
  20. The Echelon Effect -七転び八起き (Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight)
  21. my cats a stargazer – solace
  22. The Sound Of Rescue – Take Heart
  23. Matt Stevens and Kevin Feazy – Talker
  24. Ben Woods – Gone
  25. endote – Oldham
  26. Good Weather For An Airstrike – Echoes
  27. Arafúra – Lost Among the Lost (in Japan)
  28. Nobuto Suda – Bunch of Harmony
  29. The Eternal Twilight (Feat. Christian Erfurt) – Fading Into This Air…
  30. Startle The Heavens – Picking Up The Pieces
  31. Karl Verkade – Lullabye for the Lost
  32. Lowercase Noises – Migratory Patterns
  33. Bob Guido – Mooregate
  34. Slow Dancing Society – Prange
  35. The Living Sleep – We Were Infinite
  36. Tundra Lights – Four Nights Under The Lights
Find out where to get it!