Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

That Discovery piece was a tad too optimistic, methinks. Chernobyl had an explosive rupture of the containment vessel....these Japanese ones would likely have a meltdown without explosion. Chernobyl had graphite control rods which added to the fires and provided particles on which radioactive particles could attach. I don't believe the Japanese reactors have graphite. However, the four reactors are NOT under control, in fact they seem to be increasingly OUT of control......and there are four of them, each with much greater amounts of radioactive materials than had Chernobyl...and one has experimental fuel with Plutonium.....especially deadly in the air!......So far, it is a tragedy in the making......the next days will tell, but the ten days they talk about are in a normal reactor....doesn't apply here... it will be weeks or months before these can be declared as 'safe'....but they will, at best' have to be entombed or dismantled to pollute some other location.