[Red Badger]

Civil defence relief workers stand together after an earthquake and tsunami swept through Otsuchi, in the Iwate prefecture, eastern Japan March 15, 2011. REUTERS/International Red Cross/Handout

[Red Badger]

Ping.........

[BenLurkin]

“Very acute radiation, like that which happened in Chernobyl and to the Japanese workers at the nuclear power station, is unlikely for the population,”

[swain_forkbeard]

Will TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu do the honorable thing?

[Steely Tom]

Nuclear radiation is an especially sensitive issue for Japanese following the country's worst human catastrophe -- the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Yes, how well I remember the horror of that day, when Republican President Richard M. Nixon, without the slightest reason for doing so, ordered two American B-52 airplanes to go over and drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Casualities were very high because Nixon insisted that the bombs be dropped without giving any warning to the Japanese people. Truly, a "Day That will Live In Infamy," as Franklin D. Roosevelt, the man who threw the hated Nixon out of office, so movingly named it.

[Palter]

Official: Japan's nuclear situation nearing severity of Chernobyl

Sigh, looks like Japan will be home to the worlds largest dirty bomb.

[Defend Liberty]

Around eight hours after the explosions, the U.N. weather agency said winds were dispersing radioactive material over the Pacific Ocean, away from Japan and other Asian countries.

I can't help but think radiation fall out will be absorbed into the ocean. Fish, who are infected and can swim hundreds or thousands of miles to other parts of the world, will be consumed by humans will then absorb the radiation.

[Hacklehead]

Maybe putting a nuclear plant in a severe earthquake/tsunami zone wasn’t such a good idea.

[Professional]

Scarey stuff. I’m not ever going to eat sushi again. I don’t care if it is made in California. I don’t know where that rice or fish hasbeen.

I’m off to the store. I heard if I take amonia pills, I’ll be alright from the nuclear explosions from Tokyo.

If anyone has amoniom nitrate coupons, let me know. And, should I drink it with milk?

Man, I’m glad I paid the cable tv bill, instead of my mortgage that I’m late on. Don’t know what I’d do without Andre Cooper and Foxy Freinds.

[MeganC]

The possibility exists that the Japanese government may evacuate the Tokyo metropolitan area if the now Level 6 nuclear event goes to Level 7.

If 30 million people need to evacuate Japan I’d hope that the USA would take them in. The prospect of 30 million polite, cultured, educated, literate, productive, and industrious immigrants coming to America (as opposed to what we typically get) frankly excites me.