9AM in Tokyo now. REUTERS:Today's forecast is for wind from the NE/E during the day.

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Fukushima is about 150 miles to the NNE of Tokyo.

REUTERS:Wind near quake-hit Japan nuke plant to blow inland on Tuesday (It's Tuesday in Japan)

PB

[villager]

1. Holy crap -- so if it goes "full Chernobyl," do they need to evacuate Tokyo itself!!?

n/t

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2. Nobody knows, obviously, but if the forecast is correct the weather isn't helping.

PB

[Junkdrawer]

3. we'll now get our first real indication of how bad the series of accidents were....

While the wind was blowing out to sea, all manner of deception was possible.

Now, not so much...

[flamingdem]

4. It would take around 2+ weeks to evacuate Tokyo nt

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8. I'm not sure they'd have that kind of time to get out of the way if there is...

...a large release of radioactive particles & the wind is blowing right toward them.

In fact, I don't know what the hell would happen. I have heard people tweeting they were sending their family away to Osaka.

PB

[Change Happens]

5. Oh no, please God....NOOOOOOO

[Thunderstruck]

6. OMG...

I hope those containment vessel are holding. This is a nightmare of epic proportions. Imagine having to evacuate Honshu. Damn.

[highplainsdem]

7. CNN's covering this now.