Tsunami hits Japan after 8.8 magnitude Earthquake : (

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I wonder if Tokyo will become the new Pripyat? There has been explosions and now a meltdown.

Hey, guys. We just had another earthquake here- 6.0 in Shizuoka. I could feel it in Osaka and it freaked me out!

I've heard the levels of radiation in Tokyo are nothing harmful, but I'm unsure if what the govt. is telling us is true. Most of the Japanese I know don't believe them.

I'm a bit worried.

The new 6.4 quake is reportedly completely unrelated to the previous quake and its aftershocks!

It's all about the kelp ! I picked some up. I know that it only helps against radioactive iodine , but it's only a pre-cautionary incase levels increase. In the next few days .. Kelp, Iodide, all these things will probably be sold out every where.

Wasn't Chernobyl the result of the massive bureaucracy at the time? I think nuclear plants get a lot of unwarranted paranoia.

There is now a fourth fire burning at the Fukushima Plant.

A radiation leak has occured. Radiation levels in the immediate vicinity appear to be rising.

From this I believe it is reasonable to think that a containment breach has occured.



Meltdown, here it comes?

Seems like things are taking a turn for the worse now.

Reactor 3 is smoking and is suspect of containment vessel failure. Radiation has got to the point of being too dangerous for the remaining personnel to stay and they have evacuated.

Reactor 3 is the one with the MOX fuel BTW.

I was told the Japanese government has pulled the 50 workers left at the plant, and leaving the plant desolate. The evacuation is something like 60 miles from the plant .. which is understandable considering the gamma ray bursts from a complete and utter explosion would cause havoc within that vicinity. After 5 days, the Japanese government have asked the US military to intervene, I've read that the military may carpet bomb the entire site. Also I've read that Japan has been keeping the spent nuclear fuel rods at the same site, and they've blown sky high also, 40 years worth.

It can't explode. At least not the way you're apparently thinking, in an atomic fireball. Power plants use the wrong isotope of uranium, the reaction mass isn't the requisite shape, there's no TNT blanket to slap the whole thing together fast enough - it just doesn't work as a bomb.

Spent fuel is even worse for that - the radiation levels are high enough to be hazardous, and give off enough heat to be dangerous and potentially flammable to a degree, but they have even less potential as the nucleus of an atomic bomb than unspent fuel.

Why in the name of sanity would anyone carpet-bomb a power plant?? That'd make about as much sense as dropping napalm bombs on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig - maybe even less, as the napalm might have burned off some of the spilled oil...