{"id":709,"date":"2011-03-14T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/03\/14\/how-a-reactor-shuts-down-and-what-happens-in-a-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:08:15","slug":"how-a-reactor-shuts-down-and-what-happens-in-a-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/how-a-reactor-shuts-down-and-what-happens-in-a-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Reactor Shuts Down and What Happens in a Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi power station automatically shut down during the earthquake.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">But after subsequent cooling failures, two of them went into partial meltdown.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactors<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Japanese officials were scrambling to avoid meltdowns at two nuclear reactors damaged after Friday\u2019s earthquakes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/the-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/the-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi power station automatically shut down during the earthquake. But after subsequent cooling failures, two of them went into partial meltdown. The Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactors Japanese officials were scrambling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}