[RealJames]

I don't share the hope many of you do for Japan to solve it's nuclear problems, I anticipate a nuclear meltdown, hopefully a uranium reactor, not the stupid plutonium one (which has a ridiculous half-life, and would render the entire eastern part of Honshu inhabitable) but I will honestly not be surprised if Tokyo becomes a ghost town.

I've been glued to the tv for the last week here and if you read between the lines it's grim.

500km~ish from Nuclear plant 1 is the uninhabitable range for radiation, which extents past Tokyo, even mt Fuji.

The electric company tried to avoid shutting down their plants entirely, which led them to the situation we're in.
They've resorted to asking the US for boron to kill radiation but this is a bandaid not a solution.