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So finally we hear the P-word.

I thought the thought process with the highly radioactive Chlorine isotope was that it would most likely have been produced inside the reactor(s) which were flooded with seawater for cooling before they switched over to freshwater a few days ago. Since seawater and sodium chloride were inside the reactors and had a chance to get bombarded with radiation, the chlorine isotope was thought to indicate recent leakage from inside of a reactor(s).

@Nancy @ Sin I'd never thought of that- vy good point

has anyone heard news about robots to go in... france has some, so do we....

@Sky Except for one thing. Things only become radioactive when bombarded with nuetrons.

I'm still stuck on this: If they found radioactivity in soil the first time they looked for it, think how much there is around the plant.

Plutonium i mean.

@sin also we are very overextend...2/3 of my brother unit have been deploying the last two week for the"no fly zone"

@all I think the facade is near the breaking point.

Can we PLEASE stop repeating the "plutonium is the most toxic substance known to man" trope? It was invented by Ralph Nader, and is NOT based upon actual science. In fact, the most toxic substance known to man is Botulinum toxin. See en.wikipedia.org and atomicinsights.com

@Joshua Diamond And a microgram can kill you? Well maybe, at least my immune system has a chance.

Plutonium is also a by-product in the other reactors (1,2,4) I thought, would be present in the old assemblies in all of the SFPs. That's why the Japanese have been working on their reprocessing center (not activated), to extract Pu from the old rods to use in the creation of new MOX rods. I could be wrong, but believe that is the case.

@Jase So are they showing they found it in three samples. ALL THREE SAMPLES?

Another mention was Germany & France have sets of industrial large robots to deal with nuke disasters but have not sent them to Japan. Apparently the Japanese agency now in charge of industry and safety thought about creating a hazardous disaster type group of robots and just suddenly did an about face and scrapped the program. So all of their robot development has mostly been these fake human types for residential tasks

@ALL OPINION: I think we all can read between the lines here. If we just accept the data as given to us, I would just be appalled at the lack of ability to handle this situation. Of course they have blueprints, and of course they know exactly the condition of everything that is going on....technology has come a long way since 1986. I think this is a situation where survival of the fittest equates to the fittest being the more intelligent segment of the local populace who can figure out that they need to relocate without being made to do so...and this situation currently is one of stalling and posturing while the wealthy relocate their assets and they put measures in place to ensure their own security.

@Jojo The one saving grace about plutonium is that it can't spread far since it is so heavy.

@Sin Agree

@borrrden That's funny, California has detected lead emissions from China, which is also heavy. www.environmentalhealthnews.org

Plutonium soil pollution reporting is far more relevant if they tell you how many samples at what distances it took to find it.

My heart is very heavy with the latest news. Like most of you, I have not been able to tear my eyes away from this incident since the tsunami because my mind extrapolates out the possible horrific consequences. I just want to go on record expressing love and compassion and sorrow for what is occurring and all of the human suffering that is occuring. This is such a tragedy.