URGENT: Concerns of core partially melting at Fukushima nuke plant

[FourScore]

URGENT: Concerns of core partially melting at Fukushima nuke plant

TOKYO, March 12, Kyodo

The core at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor may be partially melting, the nuclear safety agency said Saturday.

Radioactive substance cesium was detected around the reactor, it said.

==Kyodo

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ah slow pace disasters are always not fun.

[Liberty Belle]

2. Business Wire is posting good updates including ominous tweet from AP that a meltdown is occurring:

http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-nuclear-plant-2011-3#ixzz1GMWv8LDN

Also a NEW tsunami alert has just been issued for Japan following aftershocks.

80,000 are missing and 1,300 confirmed dead so far...a toll that can only skyrocket if the worst-case scenario occurs at a nuke facility.