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@radioguy To the comment of "Does any one know the feelings in Tokyo". I have a good friend who's stayed with me before, and he's been re-offered his room in my house. He thanked us for the offer, but never said he was going to take it. Or even hinted that he was thinking about leaving yet.

Adano said that they will need to have the fuel out. i think they are beginning to go crazy.

I have a question about the containment lid discussion. I didn't find it scrolling back. Did something appear that made us certain a lid was blown off (other than the explosion?)

@Patrick Kelley [pessimist opinion] Don't worry, meanwhile 2 cores will have melt down and more, so no more need to cool them down :(

All depends what size pumps they have of how long it takes.

@All At some point I'd love it if you would give an opinion/prediction of where you see this going. How bad it might get, realistically. will/when/how will they evacuate. maybe even futur visions of the size of affected area and impacts on it. That is, if moderator thinks it appropriate. could use * to preface?

This just in from Kyodo. Unsure if it's been linked/posted already.

@radioguy : on the yellow containment cap you can see the lifting device from the crane fixed. so i believe the cap wasn't in its place when the quake hit it.

@all If you are living in a country using nuclear power, read this : www.nowtoronto.com . Do you know what our country's industry experts said after the Japanese accident? "Can't happen here, we have much better level of preparedness, we are more highly trained, our plant designs are different (yup, Russian 40yr old BWR designs, btw)" etc. Ah, the ignorance. As if we are somehow more skilled than the Japanese and accidents can't happen elsewhere. Sigh.

@rob I don't think pumps are the issue. Once you pump all that radioactive water out of the buildings, where do you store it and how do you process it so that it becomes safe?

english.kyodonews.jp Sorry, I hit the wrong key.... they are unable to get near reactor 2 to measure radiation. That is a big problem!

@radioguy : www.youtube.com this should be the moment you can see the square lifting device on the cap.

@vasra I think that anyone here who live in a nuclear country heard the same, absolute same thing. Oh, I was thinking you were French, lol .. Because I heard the exact same sentences here, in France since 16 days...

Greenpeace 27.3. ground survey team report : www.greenpeace.org . “The Japanese authorities are fully aware (3) that high levels of radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have spread far beyond the official evacuation zone to places like Iitate, yet are still not taking action to properly protect people or keep them informed them about the risks to their health”. TFWIW.

This is the most detailed rendering of current situation I've read yet. english.kyodonews.jp

This blog-group-team is sifting through many different sources of information-news-opinion trying to use our powers of discernment to sort out what is fact, what can be inferred from facts, contradictions that don't make sense, opinions we wish to consider as possible while looking for additional more convincing factual support, etc. In this sorting process we can look at all sources including those usually labelled conspiracy theory, bearing in mind that some parties may have their own agenda and discounting the ideas presented there to whatever degree seems appropriate. But even those sites can often be a useful source of concepts and ideas for our further consideration and I do not rule them out, as sometimes they do get it right. Even the "news" sources are not 100% correct either. I suppose they usually do their best but are not always provided with correct data from those close to an event.

... and try to keep the sarcasm at a minimum also please, everyone. We are watching while people are potentially in severe danger.

@Peter Melzer : yep.

Hi guys, I read on yahoo today that the 10,000,000x figure was false and the actual figure was 100,000x. Has this been confirmed by other sources?

Department of Nuclear Engineering University of California, Berkeley. AMS Results Log: Results Log
3/26 (6:20pm): Rain water sample results posted for 3/24 - 3/25. I-131 and Te-132 activities are lower than previously observed (3.12 and 0.27 Bq/L resp.) while Cs137 remains near the high point at ~0.5 Bq/L.

3/26 (10:45am): Air sampling results posted for 3/22 - 3/24. We have observed correlated increasing trends in Cs-137 and I-131 with the water sampling results. Te-132 seems to have increased more in air than in the rain water. Full understanding of the these trends may not be understood for some time until we start to combine this data with other information. Levels remain extremely low, but we are maintaining a close watch on these trends. www.nuc.berkeley.edu

@vasra Sweden here!

@Jim : out in the ocean, what else ? it is obvious that tepco does not care.