evacuating to 30km away now

edit: 20 yes

Evac zone expanded to 20 km.

1009: "This is starting to look a lot like Chernobyl" Walt Patterson, an associate fellow with Chatham House, has told the BBC after seeing pictures of the explosion at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant. "The nuclear agency says that they have detected caesium and iodine outside the unit, which certainly indicates fuel melting at the very least," he says. "Once you have melting fuel coming into contact with water, that would almost certainly be the cause of the explosion."

Wow, this is insane. Watching this disaster unfold over the last 24 hours has been very unsettling to say the least.

Wow, the water may never recede in some areas. Is the plant still flooded?

Horrified by what the final death toll will be :( News says 1000 now but it's got to be at least 250k - 1 mill.

1016: The BBC's environment correspondent Roger Harrabin says he understands the blast at the nuclear plant may have been caused by a hydrogen explosion - also one of the possibilities laid out by Walt Patterson of Chatham House. "If nuclear fuel rods overheat and then come into contact with water, this produces a large amount of highly-flammable hydrogen gas which can then ignite," our correspondent says.

Certainly hope this is true. The nature of the blast looked like a lot of rapidly expanding air, as though some tanks exploded, or gas pressure surpassed the threshold for its containment. I really don't know what a truly disastrous meltdown would look like.

I think everyone wants to hear what is going on at Fukushima right now, but the questions are coming faster than can be answered by authorities, who are probably scrambling right now with their very lives on the line.

time to sleep. I hope the news is better when I wake up.

Rook, Exprosion.

Been hearing about hydrogen exploding. Whatever it was, it exploded very rapidly.

yeah, I'm used to seeing really slowly moving explosions...

Slow explosions. How the **** do they work?

Edit: ****.

I meant in the sense that it went BOOM and was done.... and not like... BOOM BOOM BOOM *fire* BOOM.

yea definitely not Ka Boom Ka Blooey either

probably more like a FAWHOOOMP

could have been a BaaaGooosh.... follow by a minor Woosh

If only Michael Bay had his own plant.

Japan's coast has moved 8 feet and the Earth's axis has shifted by 4 inches according to CNN

Is it because of the earthquake, or are surgical masks really that common in Japan?

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1305: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Japanese authorities are making preparations to distribute iodine to residents in the area of both the Fukushima nuclear plants. The IAEA has reiterated its offer of technical assistance to Japan, should the government request this.

Those are awful people.

those are common all over asia

What a bunch of idiots.

What a bunch of douche bags. As they drive their Honda's and Toyota's and watch their Sony TV and PS3's. The irony of idiot Americans.

lawdy jesus

edit: thanks for quoting it you douche

so did lgbr yet eat crow for his ****ing arrogant douchery in this thread or not

dont worry guys, lgbr said they are prepared this

all will be back to normal in a couple days.

i cant wait for a new STALKER set in Japan. this will be sweet

hey guys my friend said on facebook that it's no big deal so stop being a bunch of emo crybabies who suck at the bloated rotting teat of the american media hegemony

Americans are so ****ing stupid. The most ignorant people on this planet bar none. You have smoke blown up your asses all day and refuse to hear any facts nor see any truths.

even more ignorant than the indigenous peoples of africa? i'm just looking to calibrate my absentometer here.

Excuse me but my girlfriend is not ***8220;the same people who bombed Pearl Harbor***8221;.

****ing ignorant pieces of ****.


L. Spiro

Who has the news about the recent shaking? It started up again and the government just issued a high-alert state for all of Kanto (which includes Tokyo).


L. Spiro

I am assuming you already know but the BBC is relatively up to date.

BBC News - LIVE: Japan earthquake

Live streams/latest updates/etc

The Japanese people are well prepared for nuclear meltdowns.

well, if anyone knows how to recover from a nuclear explosion, it would be the Nipponese.

All the feeds I have are not talking about it.
I only know because my coworker called to tell me. But I can***8217;t find any information about it.


L. Spiro

anyone relatively famous die?