The two nuclear power reactors FukushimaProbably Destroyed

Japanese government spokesman Yukio
Edano, Sunday (3/13/2011),
states, the second reactor at
the Nuclear Power Fukushima
Daiichi operated by Tokyo
Electric Power Co (Tepco) suspected to have partial
collapse after an earthquake
rocked measuring 8.9 on the
Richter scale on Friday. The Japanese government has
prepared an early precaution
against the threat posed
radiation. "Partial collapse is very
likely to happen. We did not
directly examine the inside of the reactor, but we've taken
steps with the assumption that
the reactor suffered a partial
collapse," said Edano told
reporters. Until this news was revealed,
there is no information on the
potential level of radiation
caused by the possibility of such
partial damage. No information is
also related to an increase in discharge areas around nuclear
power plants. To date, 170,000 people in the
area within a radius of 20
kilometers had been evacuated.
Russian nuclear experts,
Yaroslov Shtrombakh, say, a
nuclear reactor leak was determined to be not as bad as
had happened in Chernobyl,
Russia, in 1986.