Tokyo Magnitude 8.9: Fukushima Nuclear Plant Goes Kaboom
Serious stuff, really. Fukushima's nuclear powerplant had explosions and might suffer from a meltdown, although the scale of Chernobyl disaster 3 decades ago is unlikely. 5 Nuclear reactors has been put on high alert over 2 powerplants for failed cooling. Japanese sources quoted radioactive leaks is still low. It was not clear if the building whose walls came down in the explosion housed the reactor or some other facility. Tokyo Power Electric Co., the utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, said four workers had suffered fractures and bruises and were being treated at a hospital.
Onthe other hand, this quak caused Honshu island to be shifted by 8 feet, and earth's axis by 4 inches; earth's rotation sped up by 1/6 microseconds. O_O Read here.
Read: Yahoo News
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Footage on Japanese TV showed that the walls of one building had crumbled, leaving only a skeletal metal frame standing. Puffs of smoke were spewing out of the plant in Fukushima, 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Iwaki.
Friday's twin disaster, which pulverized Japan's northeastern coast, has left 574 people dead by official count, although local media reports said at least 1,300 people may have been killed. Just an update from Japan so far, and the rest of the details you can read them at various news sites.
