My goodness if these reactors go the tsunami will be nothing compared to the devastation these plants could cause. Is the radiation at lethal doses yet inside th reactors? I hear its like 1000 times above normal and climbing.
‘Normal’ is lethal.
1000x normal is apocalyptic........
The reactor cores won’t melt down completely. They have emergency cooling systems. But this is a major test for the Japanese nuclear engineers. The article doesn’t say where radiation is 1000X above normal in the plant. Most likely, that is not where people are working and workers are probably heavily shielded from radiation. I’m sure thorough consideration was given to earthquakes when they designed these plants, especially considering the plants are in Japan.
“1000 times above normal and climbing.”
A 1000 times zero is still pretty much zero.