I promise I'm trying not to be Chicken Little here or anything with reports  
of the sky falling, but I stumbled across some reports that seem to be         
legitimate at first googling regarding TEPCO announcing that Fukushima reactor 
#3 is most likely in a full meltdown scenerio.                                 
  Here's the first URL that I saw regarding it (as you'll see from the site,   
the information is highly dubious, but I traced it back a bit):                
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/tepco-quietly-admits-reactor-3-melting-now/   
that document references this source document:                                 
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt , which really seems to be a bit
of a scam to increase sales on duct tape, masking tape, and industrial grade   
plastic sheeting.                                                              
  However when I started peeking around on google images and the like, the     
images really did seem to show some serious crap pouring out of building #3.   
The most likely scenerio postulated in the articles says that there is a       
runaway meltdown that is (or already has) boiled away all of the water from the
cooling pool for spent fuel rods, and that all of those zirconium encased      
pellets are busy melting through their encasements and coming together for a   
big bash.                                                                      
  According to the all the articles I've found on things so far, TEPCO is said 
to have advised the entire population on the west coast of north america to be 
prepared to deal with a lethal atmospheric radiation hazard, and/or to be able 
to evacuate further inland at short notice.                                    
  I'm kind of glad to be in the geographical middle of north america right now,
although I'd be even happier if I were on the east coast.  Don't think I'll be 
having pacific seafood again, though...                                        
  Anybody else able to find anything regarding this on a pro or con nature? 

    --Damo dice, "Perhaps today IS a good day to die!"
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