“I do not rule out the worst in the hours and days to come.”
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BBC World, March 15, 2011 at 1:05 pm EST Austria’s Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) now supports the emergency activities of the IAEA Reuters at 10:38 am EST The whole globe will be affected. This radiation will cover the whole globe. Kyodo News, March 15, 2011 at 6:49 am EST via Kyodo News reporter “Could potentially be an even more severe problem than a reactor meltdown” The unit 1 pool could have as much as 20 years of spent fuel rods “High heat would loft the radiation in clouds that would spread the radioactivity” – New York Times “This morning, wind is blowing from the north. At the Tokai nuclear power plant, some 100 kilometers south of the Fukushima plant, a high level of radiation was observed.” Japanese authorities also today informed the IAEA at 04:50 CET that the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is on fire and radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere. |
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