shit, forgot about this, sorry.
It's really hard to examine this by officially announced levels since they have over and over had to admit it's worse than they stated before and these "worse than" statements seem to keep coming....
Some of the radiation levels they last announced were pegged at the highest reading the instruments could measure so they just announced the highest reading not knowing really how high it is.
If you look at the amount of expended fuel rods that were stored above the reaction chambers, it doesn't take a genius to know that the amount of material posing a threat is greater than what was released at Chernobyl.
After Chernobyl, they actually went nuts on a goal of containment which meant using nitrogen under the chamber and burring that shit from the top. On Fukushima, they should have taken lessons from what Russia did just like Michio Kaku suggested but they totally ignored that and opted for the, "it's not that bad" plan...
typical for the Japanese, they still got that save face honor thing going on lol...
Now there are reports that the meltdown has reached the water table and some reports that highly radioactive steam vents are popping up around the plant. If that is true, this thing is beyond saving. It means we are going to have to deal with a year by year, year after year rain down of fallout from Japan. That is an increase year after year of the isotopes that have longer life. And it will grow even worse for Japan.
At a fucking minimun, our goddamned media could be talking about this more. They treated this like it was an earthquake or hurricane when the fucking danger of this doesn't go away after a few weeks... WTF...
