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Originally Posted by 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.
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Choppers douse crippled Japan reactor with water
By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Eric Talmadge And Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press
excerpt: from todays AP article
..,The plant's owner, of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Tokyo Electric Power Co., lists that Unit 3 reactor uses a fuel that combines plutonium, better known as an ingredient in nuclear weapons, and reprocessed uranium. The presence of this mixed oxide fuel, or MOX, means potentially that yet another very harmful radioactive product could be released into the environment — plutonium.