Japan quakes

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Sure it can, but the Japanese experts are saying that isn't the case, and the media is completely underming their authority and siting their own experts that have absolutely no clue what is going on inside the plant, because they aren't there! The bloody media is fear mongering and causing world wide panic; example, there is a world wide shortage of potassium iodine tablets, so what about the people that really need them. Irresponsible journalsim as usual. Irritates the hell out of me.

I agree.. but you can see it the other way around as well...
Gov didn't tell press and people anything at first and then too little and too many half truths... that created huge demand for news...
the problem isn't the demand for news but the lack of supply...
The only way to satisfy the demand for news and reduce it, is by being honest and gaining trust. What the Japanese gov did and still is doing is the opposite...
They have a responsibility to inform the public to make educated decisions.
Instead they are creating a fascist "we know what's best for you" news suppression system. I thought Japan was a free country?
I prefer lunatic end of the world loggers over lunatic Govs trying to control the public to their own advantages any day.
And when this is over, I hope there's a political shake up.

The impression I'm given is that things are pretty much on edge, able to go either way. They are attempting to hang on and make it through the next few weeks until things cool down a bit. Since they are using mox for some reactors, which contains some plutonium, there is a lot at stake. Aside from being toxic, it has a very long half life. I haven't any clue as to how much mox they do or don't use, so I don't want to overstate the point. However, a major release of radioactive materials, especially with a large amount of plutonium, could render an entire region uninhabitable for a long while. The half-life of the form used in mox is 88 years, luckily, and not other forms which are on the order of thousands or more years.

exactly... from their actions its obvious that there is a lot at stake, but they keep saying there isn't...

Great to hear 5 and 6 are back to normal!

Generators running at reactors #5 and #6 now.