it seems that four days after the earthquake, they're still having trouble coming up with a clear picture of whats going on. the confusion between search and rescue and trying to understand whats going on in the core could be troublesome to the future of nuclear tech if a large amount of workers are contaminated or worse. part of the problem i think is the media that would make it worse. i heard somewhere (or maybe it was a previous article) that this was the worst inccident since chernobyl. but they didn't mention it was the ONLY inccident since chernobyl and not casued by malfunction, but the 4th biggest recorded earthquake in history.
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"We're now into the fourth day. Whatever is happening in that core is taking a long time to unfold," said Mark Hibbs, a senior associate at the nuclear policy program for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "They've succeeded in prolonging the timeline of the accident sequence."

"On Saturday, a similar explosion took place at the plant's Unit 1, injuring four workers and causing mass evacuations. A Japanese official said 22 people had been confirmed to have suffered radiation contamination and up to 190 may have been exposed. Workers in protective clothing used hand-held scanners to check people arriving at evacuation centers."

"On Monday, the U.S. Seventh Fleet moved its ships and aircraft away from Japan's northeast coast after discovering low-level radioactive contamination on crews returning from relief missions."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42066534/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?gt1=43001


Andrew Shen