Oh My!!! Japan nuclear: PM Naoto Kan signals 'maximum alert'

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12889541
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Plutonium has been detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor building.

Officials say the priority remains injecting water to cool the fuel rods.

Mr Kan told parliament the situation at the quake-hit plant "continues to be unpredictable".

The government "will tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert", he said, adding that he was seeking advice on whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant.

Meanwhile National Strategy Minister Koichiro Gemba said the government could consider temporarily nationalising Tepco, the company running the plant.

[ixion]

1. This is not going to play out well, in my opinion

we've already got radiation of varying types/levels mixing into North American weather. :scared:

[AsahinaKimi]

2. I had just posted this...

not going well.

[malaise]

4. It's frightening

:cry:

[ReggieVeggie]

3. Time for Obama to do a photo-op at a nuclear plant

not that one, I'm guessing

[SnohoDem]

5. Photo op

:spray:

This is _not_ a funny situation, but that comment was funny as Hell.

[malaise]

6. Not funny at all

:puke:

[ReggieVeggie]

7. wasn't intending it to be funny

Obama has already tried to reassure people about how "safe" nuclear power is, just like he went swimming in the Gulf after the oil spill

[SnohoDem]

8. Maybe not intentionally

but it cracked me up. I'm a lot closer to Japan than most DUers, though still far enough away to think I'll be safe. I take the situation very seriously. I watch NHK English two or three times a day.

It was the 'just not that one' that cracked me up. Like gallows humor, I guess.

[Vinee]

9. I would rather see my tax dollars helping the Japanese than bombing the Libyans. eom

[malaise]

10. The warmongers have the best lobbyists

Too bad and too sad.