Re: Japan's PM says nuke situation dire

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Since they are now saying that some radiation levels are 10,000 times higher than normal and that the government is quietly evacuating people from a still larger area, yes it is dire. The containment dome at at least one reactor may be breached, which would be a very bad thing if it had melted down.

Its just a pity their government didn't crack down on the industry over the last few decades. It was known that they were faking records and should have been punished for it, that and putting the plants on the beach was beyond stupid. This quake pushed tsunamis 77 feet above sea level along the land. Even that was not a record in Japan. I recall one story of a village being saved by running to the top of a 90 foot high cliff and the water still almost reached the top of it.

Now we're hearing that radiation detectors in the US weren't working right in the areas they were needed most. Way to go EPA. Must have been too busy placing rigged temperature sensors to keep up with the radiation ones. Since early this week the very burst of radiation from the explosions should have reached the cost. Funny how the media didn't have much coverage at all about the radiation levels aside from one little story about levels in Colorado.

In a message dated 3/25/2011 6:23:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Japan's PM says nuke situation dire