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Fukushima Is the China Syndrome.

Fukushima won't die. How many people will? The meltdown has reached the water table, and the potential of a nuclear explosion now exists.

by Heidi Stevenson

11 September 2011

Fukushima won't die. How many people will?

The melted core is melting into the earth. The earth is cracked and cracking under it. Massively radioactive steam is spewing from them. The meltdown has, as Thom Hartmann says, "escaped into the wild". It's reached the water table.

This is far worse than anything ever seen on earth, including the combined Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. And there's still another possibility. If the meltdown gets too hot, it could separate the water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen atoms—and that holds the possibility of a hydrogen explosion.

Paul Gunter, Director of Beyond Nuclear's Reactor Oversight Project, tells us about the situation in this interview by Thom Hartmann [7:57]:

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