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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Nuclear Nightmare: Japanese Reactor Meltdown Could Propel 'Death Cloud' to US West Coast - Salem-News.Com

Nuclear Nightmare: Japanese Reactor Meltdown Could Propel 'Death Cloud' to US West Coast - Salem-News.Com

Unlike Chernobyl, the Fukushima Dai-Ichi reactor is sealed within a reinforced containment vessel. But now the containment vessel has been breached by a powerful explosion of accumulated hydrogen gas and a core meltdown may be occurring from indications of increased radioactive cesium-137, a nuclear element that's produced when a nuclear pile melts from uncontrolled chain reaction fission.

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