Reactor # 2 has had an explosion!
Reactor number 2 in Fukushima, Japan has now expoloded. Japan news reports also that 2.7 of a rod is exposed. This means that the sea water can not cool the rods because it is evaporating too quickly.
There also are reports that there are some stronger radiation readings were found south of the plant. All personel but those working on the reactor to keep it from exploded are not being evacuated from reactor 2.
Comments
Alan, I think the efforts are directed to keeping the spread of radioactive contamination to a minimum. But if it melts down, they have lost the game. It will get into the groundwater and it's already airborne somewhat. These efforts are aimed at mitigating as much as possible, I don't think it's winnable any longer.
TraC, good to have you here. I did hear there was an earthquake near Tokyo in that range. I don't know if that means an aftershock or something else is starting to build. The magnetosphere is building heat, the mega-moon is coming (though Piers Corbyn doesn't think it will add a lot to the situation...however, if the situation is already hair trigger, well, you know the saying the straw that broke the camel's back.
Glad to be here Cheryl! Don't know if this is related, and I don't know if anyone is following, but about 45 minutes before the explosion, there was a 5.0 EQ south of of Fukushima (actually close to the tip of Tokyo), the next was right after (I mean RIGHT after) at a 5.0 and was north of Sendai, and the third was maybe 15 minutes later a lit further off the coast, but mostly parallel to Fukushima.
I don't know the correlation yet, if there is one, but I do think it is quite a coincidence, knowing that the EQ mostly stopped in that redion today.
CNN gives more info
Here is more info about the reactors, and the readings...