I'm very worried the cores of these reactors may melt down through the crust into the middle of the planet, destroy the world and damage some fluffy kittens. Its a shame no Hollywood actors are around to save us from this calamity.

He's up and down a bit but ok on the whole.


>The thing is, it's not over yet. I am not trying to be alarmist but it says something to me that the Japanese government has raised it to the highest level. Given their less than forthcoming approach from the start, maybe they know things they still have not spelled out. We already know that radioactive matter has gotten into the water supply. We already know that radiation levels in the area are way higher than the level deemed to be safe for humans. Does it have to blow up like Hiroshiima before you're impressed?
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>How is your son doing?
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>>Whoooo Level 7 I'm scared (not) Still up for that. Its nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl.
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>>>I guess they have finally decided to stop pretending it's less serious than it is.
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>>>They had a lot of people hoodwinked. Remember right after it happened how many people (including some here) were saying this is no big deal, just something ginned up by the media?
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>>>>Greeeat. I wonder how honest they're being about how serious it is even with the level moved up to 7.
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>>>>>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_05.html
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>>>>>The Japanese government's nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale.
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>>>>>The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have been releasing a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are posing a threat to human health and the environment over a wide area.
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>>>>>The agency used the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, or INES, to gauge the level. The scale was designed by an international group of experts to indicate the significance of nuclear events with ratings of 0 to 7.
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>>>>>On March 18th, one week after the massive quake, the agency declared the Fukushima trouble a level 5 incident, the same as the accident at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979.
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>>>>>Level 7 has formerly only been applied to the Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union in 1986 when hundreds of thousands of terabecquerels of radioactive iodine-131 were released into the air. One terabecquerel is one trillion becquerels.
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>>>>>The agency believes the cumulative amount from the Fukushima plant is less than that from Chernobyl.
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>>>>>Officials from the agency and the Nuclear Safety Commission will hold a news conference on Tuesday morning to explain the change of evaluation.