Another fun day in Nippon...

[jsbowden]

Things aren't looking so good:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.nuclear/

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/03/20113124353222667.html

Unlike the Ukraine, there isn't a whole lot of Japan to move to in the event large sections of it become uninhabitable.

Comments

[prince-corwin.livejournal.com]

b) Well, given that Chernobyl didn't even have a hard containment system, yeah. At the moment, the reports I'm reading say that the containment system hasn't ruptured-- apparently, the explosion seen was not directly related to the reactor system itself.

(Not that the situation is good. Radiation exposure per hour, on-site, is normal human exposure per year.)

d) Still, while the Japanese (and the rest of the western world) builds much safer reactors than Russia ever did, there are still even safer ways to build them. Can't seem to get any approved here in the United States, and this will probably make it impossible to get anything done for another thirty or forty years.