A second Tchernobyl ? Huge explosion at Fukushima.

I was reading this here on one of the myLot blogs last night and was utterly amazed and afraid of the future probabilities. I do hope that this passes and gets maintained for the good of all.

Hi sweetie. I'm just busy reading it on yahoo. This is not good at all. I honestly hope they have 50 back up plans. Most probably not, though. They have nothing to cool it with. That's the problem. Hopefully all nuclear plants will be locked down from now on.

Hiya tops, Me like everyone else here hopes that have very good safety measures. It would be so unlike the Japanese not to have some kind of Safety for this kind of thing. Though no one is perfect and no one really foresees this kind of thing going to happen at least not just all of a sudden like that. Think, hope and pray that it does not get out of hand and turn into another disaster we would hope not. This is how I feel at the moment. Spanish Television is doing it´s typical "no news" when they don´t want to thing and we are scanning for News about it and there is nothing newer than last night. So we have watched the Video link that you have put in there thank you so much for that one as I cannot see you tube at the moment either. My concern is for the People of Japan too is Aid on it´s way to them we just don´t know either. If there is a bright side to look on they may well have had "safety locks" that have prevented further damage being done. My heart goes out to them it really does who know what "damage" remains long after it has all happened.

From the link you have given, the Japanese Prime Minister said the amount of radiation released is "tiny". Well, I'm no scientist, but whatever the amount, it is still dangerous, in my opinion. I think the Japanese Government is too proud. May be it's time they swallow the pride and ask for whatever help they can get. From the looks of it, even just the Earthquake and Tsunami damages are too big a problem for one country.

I think they have never thought that 8.8 earthquake would happen when they had the two nuclear plants built.And we can see both earthquake and nuclear disaster will bring us such huge and fatal calamities once we human beings are not able to control them.God bless!

Let's hope it won't be a second Tchernobyl. In my country we're still suffering the consequences of the real Thernobyl explosion. The radiation cloud is so dangerous that I can only pray for all the affected people who will suffer damages for generations ahead. And I think the world leaders must think fast and respond adequately to this crisis which can easily turn into a worldwide catastrophe. And also huge humanitarian aid must be considered for all the Japanese who lost homes and families.

This just goes to show how dangerous nuclear power can be, especially if power plants are sited in known areas of strong earthquake activity. Nuclear power is already far more expensive than we were led to believe because of the costs of disposing of 'spent' fuel and the huge costs involved in future decommissioning. It is time that the public were properly informed about nuclear power stations the world over. It is only by a worldwide and well-informed public attitude to the dangers and real costs to the environment of nuclear power generation that we can stop our governments investing in these recipes for disaster.

Everything has two sides. Nuclear power has produced so much electricity that so many countries are trying to master the techology. I also paid lots of my attention on the disasters. On the one hand, feel so sorry for the victims, on the other hand, worry a lot about the nuclear plants explosion. So many natural disasters in recent years. It makes us to worry that will the endday is coming like the movie"2012"? Before the natural disaster, no matter how advanced the technology and economy is, no one can escape from it. We human beings are so tiny before the angry and power of the earth. How can we do, the only thing we can do is to try to live a full life each day. Because we just don't know when a similar disaster will happen on us.

Hi topffer, Japan has seen Nuclear Explosions at end of world war 2 and saw the results even generations later. And with earth quakes and tsunami it is a real possiblity that nuclear plants may leak. But it was on news 10 mins earlier , they showed some govt officer of Japan saying that There was no explosion in the plant and it is safe and only colling plant has failed.

Oh lord... if that nuclear disaster happens... it is surely going to be more evil than the earthquake and tsunami and this is not done... Hope they evacuate most of the people from the places where it affects most

Thank God it was not that bad. But 3 workers in the nuclear plant came to the hospital with radiation trails on them. It seems just the concrete exploded as that area over the tank was too hot.

hi friend, only comes to show how small we are with all our advancement, power , wealth and technology when we are pitted against the wrath of mother nature. A few months ago I responded to a post here regarding the use o nuclear energy, I really think it's not the path we should follow, the same mistake we made with using fossil fuel for energy when the sun and the wind is always there waiting to be discovered and it's use maximized. I truly sympathize with the people of Japan ( our neighbor), I have plenty of Japanese friends as well as friends who chose to work and stay in Japan, hope they do something ASAP before all of us gets contaminated, it would also bring back to this generation the horror and the threat posed by nuclear energy the same way the previous generation prior to them experienced a nuclear holocaust, I'm really sorry for Japan

I know its very disturbing, I dont know how this would be solved, I know earthquakes were kinds common in Japan but what just happened is not expected. its very tragic to see a beautiful Prefecture being swallowed by mud caused by the tsunami. I saw the footages and its very disturbing. What is going on with Planet earth.

I just woke up so I'm not really up to date with this whole situation. I heard yesterday though that there was a chance that a nuclear power plant could explode. This has happened as you say and I just hope for the Japanese people that they will get through this whole experience as painless as possible. Let's all cross our fingers it won't turn even worse!