Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but the media is also doing a terrible job reporting the radiation levels. Some are straight out fraudulent levels but mostly they are slipping decimal points and reporting microsieverts as millisieverts.
It's not a good situation but so far it also isn't a public or environmental disaster.
I've seen pictures of oil burning electric plants on fire and heavy oil storage containers completely ruptured and can't help but think that when all is said and done (if the reactors perform as designed during a meltdown) those types of things will be the major issues coming out of this. That along with getting people clean water and food etc.
|