Things Get Worse at Fukushima

An anonymous reader writes "Radiation levels are skyrocketing around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant as reports indicate that a radioactive core has overheated and melted through its containment vessel and onto a concrete floor. Radiation levels inside reactor two were recently gauged at 1,000 millisieverts per hour — a level so high that workers could only remain in the area for 15 minutes under current exposure guidelines."

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Re:Before everyone freaks

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice troll, but no cigar. If they were that interested in repairing and re-using those reactors, they would not have been so quick to pump seawater into them in an effort to cool them down. Seawater is not nice to reactor components, and renders them pretty well unuseable. Not to mention the reactors were scheduled to be decomissioned in the next couple of years anyway.

But still, "Cool story, bro!"