Amazing pics.

Earthquake in Japan - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

i wonder what astronomical figure the damages are going to cost insurers

2252: The Tokyo Electric Power Company has said the cooling systems of three reactors at second nuclear power plant, Fukushima-Daini, are malfunctioning, according to the Kyodo news agency. The plant is 11km (7 miles) to the south of Fukushima-Daiichi, where the cooling system one of its reactors is not working and pressure is rising.

URGENT: Cooling system fails at Fukushima No. 2 plant | Kyodo News

some bold text here, but if you continue to read, the text is not bold anymore over here. probably not as important as the bold text.

its going to boil off. if they cant cool it down, the fuel will melt.

:lol:

man, talk about a long and unlucky day Japan is having.

We are all so ****ed, the ocean is draining into the earths core.

Whirlpool forms after Japan earthquake - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

This is the first plant:

2310: More from the Tokyo Electric Power Company: It says the ability to control pressure in some of the reactors at Fukushima-Daini has been lost. Pressure is stable inside the reactors, but rising in the containment vessels, a company spokesman says.


Also, they are going to release the containment vessel valve to relieve some of the pressure.

this is worse than the tishnik massacre :[

ur mom will melt

They are venting the radioactive steam in last ditch effort to cool the cascading fuel. The expert on MSNBC just said they they have an hour to control it or restore power to the cooling systems or it becomes unmanageable.

****

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/sites/def.../whirlpool.jpg

Lots of photos

Seen from above, the awesome scale of Japan's destruction (big photo gallery) - Boing Boing

It wasn't an Earthquake, Chuck Norris just forgot to put on sneakers before jumping rope.

:)