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Thread #136289 Message #3112059
Posted By: Charley Noble
11-Mar-11 - 09:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: 8.9 earthquake off Japan, tsunami 11-Mar-2011
Subject: RE: BS: 8.9 earthquake off Japan, tsunami
Damn!
20 minutes ago this update was posted:
"The Kyodo news agency says the cooling system has failed at three reactors at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan and that the coolant water's temperature has reached boiling level."
The radiation levels within the containment are also described as a thousand times higher than normal.
Charley Noble