It's amazing that something ~5000 miles away can have such a visible effect, albeit small:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5094/5517993750_0ece81abd3_b.jpg
wtf is a prefecture?
It's amazing that something ~5000 miles away can have such a visible effect, albeit small:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. started releasing radioactive gas from one of the reactors at a nuclear plant north of Tokyo and is preparing to conduct a similar operation at a second station after yesterday’s quake.
Tokyo Electric, Asia’s biggest power company, started venting gas from a containment section of the No. 1 reactor of its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo at about 9 a.m. local time, Akitsuka Kobayashi, a company spokesman, said by phone today.
Tokyo Electric has also started preparing to vent gas from the containment areas of four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ni nuclear plant, spokesman Naoyuki Matsumoto said.