News from Japan

[karadinart]

NEW: An estimated 450,000 people are living in shelters, according to Japanese reports

The death toll reaches 1,886, and at least 2,369 are missing, this count does not include 2,000 bodies found Monday in Miyagi Prefecture.

Nuclear reactors continue to give workers trouble, risking release of radioactive material

source: CNN WORLD

Comments

[kikainausagi.livejournal.com]

I keep finding the same news articles over and over, with the same unsubstantiated reports. It's a little frustrating

This is an excellent discussion of why, even in the event of total meltdown at all the affected reactors, we aren't facing anything like Chernobyl: https://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/