Monday, March 14, 2011

Fourth Reactor Now on Fire in Japan!

Tuesday morning, as an explosion at the most crippled of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station damaged its crucial steel containment structure, emergency workers were withdrawn from the plant, and much larger emissions of radioactive materials appeared immiment, according to official statements and industry executives informed about the developments.

Workers at the Nuclear Power Station are now leaving. If all workers leave, a meltdown is inevitable. The issues they are dealing with now is hopes that the prevailing winds don't blow southward towards Tokyo or westward across Japan and to the Korean Peninsula.

“It’s way past Three Mile Island already,” said Frank von Hippel, a physicist and professor at Princeton. “The biggest risk now is that the core really melts down and you have a steam explosion.”

Citizens can be seen wearing masks while going about their daily lives. Radioactive steam is being release, and drawing major concerns. What will happen next? We pray that another Chernobyl doesn't occur.

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