The Situation Worsens–Japan on the Brink of Nuclear Disaster?
This is a closeup of the damaged No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant says Reuters. Then they add that France is telling its citizens to leave Japan or head to south of country. NPR tells us that the heroic workers are evacuating part of the crippled plant. Though the latest information says that they have returned. An English Japanese media source says that this nuclear disaster will be comparable to Chernobyl’s. But he didn’t have to tell us, we can already see the gaping hole in the reactor. BBC has a clear description of what happened. Now the workers have returned but for how long as huge aftershocks rock the plant, fire burns out of control and radiation levels continue to spike.
I think I’m going to bed and pretend that I just had a bad dream.
UPDATE: I made that up about going to bed. Here’s a great timeline of events at Reuters.
UPDATE 2: If you don’t look at anything else, take a look at this before and after shot of the Fukushima nuclear power site.
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The one glimmer of hope at this point is that as each day passes without a full-scale meltdown in the active reactors, the fuel in those reactors should continue to gradually cool down, and then continuing the cooling process becomes easier.
We’re definitely not out of the woods yet — far from it — but the worst-case scenarios are not yet inevitable. There is still some hope that they will be able to keep this already very serious situation from sprialing completely out of control and becoming a full-scale Chernobyl-style catastrophe. At this point, if it ends up being “only” a Three-Mile-Island type “mostly-contained-partial-meltdown,” that will be defined as success, and understandably so.
On that kinda-sorta hopeful (yet still rather depressing) note, I’m headed off to bed.
This is very bad and very sad. I’m so shocked and sorry. We need to help.
Get some sleep folks, rest; tomorrow is going to be a big day and we need to start.
The following is not the condition of the Fukushima reactors– but of Japan itself during the early hours of our morning: from Mark McDonald and Kevin Drew of the New York Times “Emperor, In Rare Address, Expresses Deep Concern Over Crisis:
What’s very ugly just got a lot uglier. Japan is getting hammered. They badly need help. Now.
The following is not the condition of the Fukushima reactors– but of Japan itself during the early hours of our morning: from Mark McDonald and Kevin Drew of the New York Times “Emperor, In Rare Address, Expresses Deep Concern Over Crisis:
What’s very ugly just got a lot uglier. Japan is getting hammered. They badly need help. Now.
Skippy and tra, thank you for keeping us up to date on what is happening. It is hard for me to unstick my eyes from the monitor and accept that I have little ways to help other than send money. I wish there was something more immediate I could do.
Skippy and tra, thank you for keeping us up to date on what is happening. It is hard for me to unstick my eyes from the monitor and accept that I have little ways to help other than send money. I wish there was something more immediate I could do.
I too can’t seem to get unglued from the news either. I want to do something, but all I can do is mourn with Japan and pray. ( and send money). I am checking your site a lot Kym, because you sift through all the news so darn well. Thanks.
I too can’t seem to get unglued from the news either. I want to do something, but all I can do is mourn with Japan and pray. ( and send money). I am checking your site a lot Kym, because you sift through all the news so darn well. Thanks.