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Originally Posted by sologirlcontent
My wife's mom just called from Germany..on the news there ( much more upfront then US news) Japan will allow the meltdown to blow as the wind changes back INTO japan so the casualty rate is only around 200k instead of nearly 4 million if cloud flows to West Coast US...Let's just see in 24 hours if this baby explodes for real.
and there are 6 reactors in trouble..this could well be the game changer guys
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Not doubting you as such but a search of Die Welt, Stern, Deutsche Welle and Speigel Online; both German and English versions where available, yielded references to no such story. If you can get us a link, it would be great though!
In other news, the US Navy has moved its ships further away from Japan due to having detected airborne radiation some 100 miles from the reactor sites:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ex.html?hpt=T1
Tests detect radioactivity on 17 U.S. Navy crew members in Japan
By the CNN Wire Staff
March 14, 2011 5:17 a.m. EDT
"(CNN) -- Tests detected low levels of radioactivity on 17 U.S. Navy helicopter crew members when they returned to the USS Ronald Reagan after conducting disaster relief missions in Japan, the military said Monday.
No further contamination was detected after the crew members washed with soap and water, the Navy said.
In addition, the Navy said the U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and planes away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after detecting low level contamination in the air and on its planes in the area, the Navy said.
One ship was operating about 100 miles northeast of the power plant when "airborne radioactivity" was detected, the Navy said.
The Navy's statement, however, provided some perspective, noting that the maximum potential radiation dose received by ship personnel when it passed through the area was "less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun."
On Sunday, the USS Ronald Reagan started delivering aid in the coastal regions of Japan's Miyagi prefecture.
Crew members, in conjunction with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces, conducted 20 sorties delivering aid pallets.
Eight U.S. and Japanese helicopters were used to distribute the pallets, according to Sgt. Maj. Stephen Valley of U.S. Forces Japan.
Workers are scrambling to cool down fuel rods and prevent a full meltdown in three reactors at the earthquake-hit plant.
Radioactive steam has been released intentionally to lessen growing pressure in the reactors."