Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

Break out the radioactive champagne! I and many others have been saying this for a month...it took the Japanese govt. a 'while' to see the inevitable. It will end the same way as Chernobyl x 6, too. There they buried one in concrete - here all six. The only problem is that in the meantime 4-5 of those reactors could still experience complete meltdown [and huge releases] and even AFTER being put in a sarcophagus it is still too near the ocean and the water table to not continually leak radiation down and out! :what: Make that an EIGHT on a one to seven scale! :mexican:

There have been four new strong earthquakes in the last 48 hours. Each time, they evacuate the plant and each time slightly more damage is done and the cooling of the overheating cores and waste pools is halted. If they get one or two more very strong aftershocks [very likely], one of the six containment vessels or spent fuel pools could crack....after that....I don't even want to think....those scenarios are possible even without new earthquakes. They now expect the total minimum [!] release of radiation will equal Chernobyl....only over a longer time period. The TOTAL amount of radioactive materials in the plant that COULD be released is many thousands of times that of Chernobyl...it depends on the scenario....and still they have not started building the containment structure....amazing!

The 'party-line' in Japan and most MSM around the world is that 'only' 10% of the amount of radiation released at Chernobyl has so far [sic] been released in Japanernobyl....and if one counts to air, that is probably close [no one really knows - or are telling]...BUT if one adds in the radioactives put into the ocean it is definitely now EQUAL to Chernobyl and this will, at best, be ongoing for another year. [If they'd get going, they could likely entomb the plant in 6-8 months; if they don't get going, look at a year or more.....once they begin!] - I don't see how they will ever stop the radiation into the groundwater and sea.....maybe there is a 'fix', but it will be very expensive and quite an engineering feat!!!!