Japanese Declare Crisis at Level of Chernobyl

[coxmw]

lol, thanks I need that today!

[slowz1k]

Not good at all! And with them dunping water back in the pacific ocean who knows what that will do.

GODZIRRA!!!!!:D




Sorry... Just felt some humor might help this particular situation.
It'll probably get much worse, before it gets better.

[coxmw]

Not good at all! And with them dunping water back in the pacific ocean who knows what that will do.

[Skyowl's Wife]

Excerpt:

Japan's nuclear regulators said the plant has likely released so much radiation into the environment that it must boost the accident's severity rating on the International Nuclear Event scale to a 7 from 5 currently. That is the same level reached by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the former Soviet Union, which struck almost exactly 25 years ago, on April 26, 1986.

Wow! Skyowl and I were in Munich when Chernobyl blew up, we weren't told just how bad it really got. When I look at the diagrams of the radioactive cloud, I'm stunned. Our kids weren't allowed outdoors to play for a couple of weeks and we were told to not buy German milk. Now I see why.

Here's the whole article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...249147126.html