[JERRY2KONE]

Well prevailing winds can do all sorts of things, but there are a lot more factors involved then just wind. Percipitation and wind patterns will have a lot to do with how it moves about the planet. Anything is possible. Look at what just happened with this quake and tsunami. No one would have ever guessed that a wave that big would engolf entire cities in Japan, but that is exactly what happened. Sure during most of the year the winds do tend to travel west to east over the aian region, but during a few months every year the winds change direction and Korea is a hell of a lot closer to Japan then Cali is. Less distance means higher level of radiation, because it will disapate the further it has to travel.

I do not even think that digging up a nuclear reactor is posssible once it has been breached. The radiation levels would be much too high for any kind of machinery to be driven close enough to do any work. The driver would be dead inside of 20-30 minutes. It would be a suicide mission at that. Who is going to volunteer? Unless they do it all remotely with remote controlled equipment. That would be a serious project and more than likely making history in inovation. Anyway the way these things are built it is like a huge bunker with a bank vault cemented right into the center of it. The reactor is a huge vessel of enormous weight that is built in sections just so it can be installed. So what your suggesting might be possible, but I am not sure how they would do it.

This is why Chernobyl was barracaded and burried. No one could get close enough to do anything with it. Even the guys who were volunteered to go in and burry the site could only work for like 7 minutes, which exposed them to a life time dosage of radiation. If they stayed any longer than 7 minutes they would die within days or weeks from radiation poisoning.