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This has turned out worse than Three Mile Island, but it is still not anywhere near Chernobyl.

But nonetheless, as always there are those individuals that one must be impressed with; the workers who are braving serious health risks to resolve this very serious problem. These men and women are on the same scale as the 9/11 responders and those of any major (or even minor) disaster.[/QUOTE]


WOW REALLY? Are you trying to compare what these poor souls are going through (certain death) to save an entire population to those of the 9/11 NYC recovery crews? Are you kidding me. Look no one is for any reason douting that what the crews went through in NYC was a terrible situation. Certainly the death toll of those who perished in the subsiquent collaps of the twin towers was awful. All of this being casued not by Mother Nature, but by morons who are surely set on hurting the American way of life. Recovery yes was difficult, but nothing on the level of what these workers are faced with. Even if they do get in and out without having any of the structure fall on them they will more than likely either get extremely sick from radiation poisoning, or they will die a painful death from an invisible killer that causes cancer and the like.

This tiny Island nation was hit by one of the largest natural disasters to date being a 9.0 Earthquake, followed by part of their island sinking two feet leaving them wide open for a Tsunami that wiped out what will more than likely turn out to be over 20K to 25K people, and also crippling this nuclear power site to the point of nuclear disaster that is unrivaled in size and possible level of contamination involving not one, not two, not even three, but four damaged reactors, along with all of their spent fuel rod pools which involves a very large number of dangerous nuclear fuel.

No this has not reached the level of disaster of Chernobyl yet, but it can surely get much worse if things keep encountering setbacks that are making things impossible to overcome the damage already created after three weeks of attempting to get things under control. 9/11 was ten years ago, and we have long since recovered from that. Not sure what your point is here, but this is far from over and there has been nothing so far that points to the resolution of the growing problems that these reactors present to the nation of Japan or that of the world who are all extremely worried about the very real posibilities that this has the potential of causing. Lets just say for the sake of arguement that Japan keeps working at this for another month and finally just says we do not know what we can do. By then we would be in what like the 7th week of radiation leakage. From all of the conflicting reports up to now I really do not believe that anyone knows just how much contamination is actually leaking out of this plant. This is relitively new ground for most of the world and exactly how much damage can be done by these reactors probably won't even make it to the surface until long after the damage is done. Life in Chernobyl is still desolate and many many people have died and have been adversely affected by that disaster. How high will those levels reach in this one. No one yet knows and that is why we are here discussing this situation. If you do not like reading about it on here, or seeing it on TV, then don't.