http://en.rian.ru/world/20110315/163023358.html
"The Japanese authorities on Tuesday ordered the injection of water
into the spent nuclear fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor at Japan's
quake-stricken Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Kyodo news reported.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said it has not yet
confirmed the water levels in the pool storing the spent fuel rods
but hinted that they may have fallen, leading to an exposure of the
rods.
Radiation levels spiked around the plant on Tuesday morning after a
fire broke out at reactor No. 4, preceded by a powerful blast at
reactor No. 2. The government announced a no-fly zone over the plant
to avoid the spread of radiation."
Reactor 4 is now out of control, and numbers 1, 2, an 3 have blown up.
There have been no recent photos or videos. Anderson Cooper and crew
forced by hazard to evacuate yesterday:
http://perezhilton.com/2011-03-15-anderson-cooper-and-crew-evacuate-
fukushima-nuclear-plant
http://tinyurl.com/497h6s5
Cooper tweets: "we think iodine is only if you've been exposed to
radiation, not something you take protectively. We hope we haven't
been exposed"
Too bad he is wrong about that. Potassium iodide is taken in advance
to load up the thyroid with iodine, so it does not take up the
radioactive kind from the environment.
It appears future news forthcoming from the Fukushima site will be
highly controlled.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
