I've never seen a post in this echo, but I'm going to bet that this is the   
   kind of thing that would be on-topic, unless this is all for biblical end-times   
   kind of stuff:   
      
     I promise I'm trying not to be Chicken Little here or anything with reports     
   of the sky falling, but I stumbled across some reports that seem to be            
   legitimate at first googling regarding TEPCO announcing that Fukushima reactor    
   #3 is most likely in a full meltdown scenerio.                                    
     Here's the first URL that I saw regarding it (as you'll see from the site,      
   the information is highly dubious, but I traced it back a bit):                   
   http://www.occupycorporatism.com/tepco-quietly-admits-reactor-3-melting-now/      
   that document references this source document:                                    
   http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt , which really seems to be a bit   
   of a scam to increase sales on duct tape, masking tape, and industrial grade      
   plastic sheeting.                                                                 
     However when I started peeking around on google images and the like, the        
   images really did seem to show some serious crap pouring out of building #3.      
   The most likely scenerio postulated in the articles says that there is a          
   runaway meltdown that is (or already has) boiled away all of the water from the   
   cooling pool for spent fuel rods, and that all of those zirconium encased         
   pellets are busy melting through their encasements and coming together for a      
   big bash.                                                                         
     According to the all the articles I've found on things so far, TEPCO is said    
   to have advised the entire population on the west coast of north america to be    
   prepared to deal with a lethal atmospheric radiation hazard, and/or to be able    
   to evacuate further inland at short notice.                                       
     I'm kind of glad to be in the geographical middle of north america right now,   
   although I'd be even happier if I were on the east coast.  Don't think I'll be    
   having pacific seafood again, though...                                           
     Anybody else able to find anything regarding this on a pro or con nature?    
      
       --Damo dice, "Perhaps today IS a good day to die!"   
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