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Originally Posted by tore
There's been an explosion in the nuclear powerplant and they've released some radioactive material and there's a lot of radioactive steam coming from the area. People are being told to stay indoors, turn off their air-conditioning and to not drink tap water. A guy on the telly said that the effect of this on the japanese may be as bad as the Chernobyl accident. There are also two more reactor cores quite close to the one which has leaked and who knows how the explosion has affected the other two?
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Scary stuff and how are they supposed to go about fixing it with the radiation levels as high as they are in the plant (around 1000 times the normal amount). Luckily we learned a lot from Chernobyl and hopefully lives won't be lost. I can't imagine another zone of alienation in Japan though.