Thousands Feared Dead as Japan Prepares for its own "Chernobyl"

Over 9,500 people are “unaccounted for” in just one town, Minamisanriku – roughly half the town’s population. This drives the potential casualty count well above the 2,500 already confirmed dead by Japanese officials. Sad as this is, the story gets worse, much worse:
Nuclear plant engineers in Japan are frantically working to keep temperatures down in a series of reactors as the possibility of a cataclysmic nuclear disaster threatens to complicate matters following a devastating earthquake and tsunami that may have killed over 15,000 people.
“If you are deliberately flooding sea water into your multi Billion USD nuclear power facility, you have already decided that this is a lost cause (i.e., a total economic loss) and you are now just trying to mediate further losses”.
Japan authorities confirms that at least a partial meltdown has occurred in two of the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nucleart facility in Onagawa Japan. “As a precaution” Japan authorities have expanded the area of forced evacuation, now within 20km of that nuclear facility, resulting in the displacement of over over 250,000 persons in one of the worlds most densely populated countries. With the fears of a partial nuclear meltdown having been realized, the concern now is that Japan will be home to its own Chernobyl – for the next 300 years.
“At the risk of raising further public concern, we cannot rule out the possibility of an explosion,” Edano said. “If there is an explosion, however, there would be no significant impact on human health” – so says the official who is safely some 200 miles south from the nuclear reactor However, because the nuclear fuel is housed inside the reactor’s containment facility (with is not easily visible by humans), it can not be directly checked and verified to assure the public of its safety.
“This is the worst disaster Japan has face since the the Second World War” said the Japanese prime minister – “in which more than 200,000 people were killed in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States”.
Any increase in dispersed radiation raises the risk of cancers. Japanese authorities are distributing iodine, which may help protect against some thyroid cancer.

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