Update on Fukushima daichi nuclear power plant from ABC

Main points:

- Power connected to number 2 reactor;
- Power to 3 and 4 will take days;
- 300 engineers inside the danger zone struggling to avert a Chernobyl type disaster;
- reactors 3 the one with plutonium said to stabilize by the efforts of firefighters dousing it;
- If pumps can't be restarted, encasing will be likely but will take months;
- More cases on contaminated foods, dust and water;
- Iodine 131 found in Tokyo tap water, in trace amount.

Source ABC.

Progress is slow and the information is trickling down. But physicists from MIT are worried of the effect of sea water on the lead reactor vessels. Corrosion is likely to occur and depending on the type of steel at different rate.

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