Denial not being just a river in Egypt. This disaster in Japan blew by TMI more than a week ago.
How many reactors are melting down? Calls for international assistance should have gone out the minute they realized that they could not get the cooling systems to operate.
It would not surprise me if the death toll from this accident does not approach the thousands by the time all is said and done.
Zero. Units 1, 2 & 3 are being injected with seawater. Units 4, 5 & 6 were down before the earthquake.
The main problem at this point is in the cooling pool of spent nuclear fuel.
The INES rated TMI at a 5. IMO it was really a 4. The Japanese plant situation is, as you said, already a 5. It may not be a 6, but more information might make it so.
I'll file this away for "claim chowder."
Calls for international assistance should have gone out the minute they realized that they could not get the cooling systems to operate.
I'm offended by your insinuation the Japanese did not reach out for help or were dithering fools like your golfer-in-chief. Earlier there was a question about some BBC reporting that seemed to indicate the first U.S. offers of help had strings requiring the dismantling of reactors in Japan.