Posted on 03/12/2011 12:02:10 AM PST by rawhide
LOL! I just did and came back and saw your post. Interesting and informative site. Half-hour is all it takes for KI to fill your thyroid and block the nasty stuff.
Good grief. I remember what I was doing the day Chernobyl coverage exploded.
BBC Live News Feed: 1009: “This is starting to look a lot like Chernobyl” Walt Patterson, an associate fellow with Chatham House, has told the BBC after seeing pictures of the explosion at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant. “The nuclear agency says that they have detected caesium and iodine outside the unit, which certainly indicates fuel melting at the very least,” he says. “Once you have melting fuel coming into contact with water, that would almost certainly be the cause of the explosion.”
NHK says evacuation zone is now 20 kilometers for both No 1 & No 2 power plant areas.
See post# 279
They have internet/twit, facebook - no phone service - holding it for rescue teams.
They’re putting makeup on the janitor right now... he’s on in a few.
About time.
It’s bad- and by expanding the zone it’s a confirmation this isn’t contained.
BBC updated - 1011: More from Walt Patterson of Chatham House. He says the presence of the radioactive caesium in the surrounding area does not pose a huge threat to public health in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. “What would be serious is if there was an explosion or fire that lifted this stuff high in the air, meaning it could get carried over a wide area.”
Different reactor. All but this one are apparently safe now.
It’s just so eerie. It was Friday, during the day. I see very few people. Just those in cars, who have no idea what is about to hit them, and very few cars on the road, but many cars swept away. There had to be tens of thousands of people close to those shores.
That thread looks to be about the No 2 site which is also under the 20km evacuation zone now.
Hopefully it's safe for your wife to take.
My God, this just keeps getting worse by the hour.
The tsunamis came about 10-15 minutes after the quake. For most people there probably was no warning. Yes, under all that rubble and mess will be potentially hundreds of more bodies. We got extremely lucky her in Tokyo.
Please know that many thousands of us are praying for you all...
Keep us posted if possible and stay safe.
Maybe not? At 2:45 local, maybe everybody was at work or on the way to school to pick up the kids further south and west?
Were there high waves in Japan other than the NE coast?
Thank goodness you are safe.
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