Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

They have despite the high radiation near the plant [I would imagine VERY VERY high!] brought in some riot-water trucks to try to pump sea water through them and shoot streams into the reactor holding tanks [open to the sky now, after the hydrogen explosions].....those workers doing that are both brave and not very likely to live long lives. I wish them luck....but this does NOT deal with the reactor containment vessels below [the spent fuel storage is above the reactor containments], which are heating up, 3 of six having failed [cracked open, or worse], the other three at risk in the next hours or days. Radiation levels in and near the reactor site is now SO high, that workers are being allowed to only work for short periods of time [being kept secret] and then rotated by others - those exposed not allowed to try again for a few minutes to hours for several days.....if the radiation levels go up [likely], it will really be a 'commitment' to even enter and work for a short period of time.....at high levels nausea and weakness can happen in hours or even minutes; at the highest levels death occurs in minutes.

......it is like a 'B' horror story by a bad and overly dramatic writer. Godzilla meets the Nuke.