The influential Washington based think tank , The Institute for Science and International Security; states that the situation in Japan is more serious than the International Nuclear and Radiological Events Scale (INES) present rating of 4 out of 7. They claim the scale should now rate the disaster as a 6 out of 7. And that it may need to be rated as a 7 out of 7. We will give are readers a breakdown of the scale.
Authorities in Japan are now reporting that fuel rods are melting at the 3 crippled reactors. Their containment vessels are still intact preventing a catastrophic radiation release. It shows that Japanese authorities attempts to cool the reactors have failed so far. They have reported that up to 180,000 have been evacuated. Newer experimental reactor designs like Pebble Bed Reactor’s are virtually meltdown proof. These older GE Mark 1 BWR require massive cooling Continue reading
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