My wife spoke with her parents today. They are fine and Aunt Sachiko has joined them in their house. Here is a part of my post from my Guam thread. Charlie, you were right. Japan is one of the safest nuclear power generators in the world and now they have lost control of one plant and may lose the other. All of their redundant safety systems failed. The Fukushima plant has one reactor that has blown its containment building apart and they are worried about the other five reactors on site. They've evacuated people for 20 kilometers around the northern plant and 10 kilometers around the southern plant in Fukushima. Damn! I wish you and the Clamshell Alliance could have been wrong on this one. I keep thinking about that reactor in New Hampshire and wondering how people would be able to get from Maine to Massachusetts if there was a 20 kilometer no-go area around that plant.
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