      I.  CNN Claims Tokyo Residents May be in Danger
Comments     Threshold   RE: This sucks. By kilkennycat on
3/19/2011 4:21:11 AM , Rating: 2 Zero danger to the US from this
accident. Not at all so to Japan. Remember Japan is only the
size of California with a population of 127 million. Not far to
run from air-borne radiation-particles, especially Cs-137. You
might have noticed that the winds at Fukushima since the
earthquake have been light and always blowing out to sea.  The 4
damaged reactors have rapidly-drying holding-ponds with a total
of ~ 500,000 fuel rods, partly or fully exposed to the air apart
from any debris covering them. The massive hydrogen explosions
pretty well verify that the zirconium tubing on the fuel-rods
has been oxidizing in the water-vapor and significant
disintegration of the rods has been taking place ( @ >
1500degrees C). The emergency crews have only been able to douse
one reactor (#3) so far and the success here is doubtful; with
each dousing, massive amoun