Four more nuclear plants at stake, one of it short to explosion. The fallout of the first is already poisoning areas further than a hundred kilometers around the explosion (where the evacuations took place). You cannot evacuate densely populated areas - Japan is one big populated area, everywhere.
Now in that second plant they use plutonium. You know the stuff that will kill you with the millionth part of a gram, and a theoretical spoonful enough to kill Great Britain if properly dispersed by wind (cold war study). Most will go down over the pacific if the current winds do not change.
The Tsunami is bad enough, but several (!) cores melting ?! How deep will a runaway reactor core get, through the surface ? China syndrome ?
I guess the heat and energy melting the ground below it will bleed away after some meters, if not the radiation level ?
Greetings,
Catfish
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