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Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done

Posted by Soulskill on from the hide-in-our-caves-and-fear-the-mighty-atom dept.

IndigoDarkwolf writes "The sometimes confused media coverage around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant left me wanting for a good summary. Apparently the BBC felt the same way, and now delivers an overview starting from the earthquake and concluding with the current state of the troubled reactors."

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  1. They blew up and are melted down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At least 2 of the reactors blew up and are melted down, spewing radiation into the air, dumping radioactive water into the ocean and they are too proud to let anyone help them to stop it.

  2. In Before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "if you don't think we're all gonna die of radiation poisonning, that the whole world will not become unihabitable due to fukushima, and that the level of contamination 10000km away from fukushima is fine, why don't you go spend a week in fukushima with no protection just next to reactor 2 ?"