whos buying?, page-11

If all that leaks is transient amounts of short-lived caesium and iodine, then this event will be one of the greatest reasons for going nuclear. One of the world's worst earthquakes ever. One of the worst tsunamis ever. Suggests that if you put the hype aside then engineering will have won out.

Of course if uranium or plutonium gets out, because the core's casing cracks, then that's that at the political level.

I'm betting on nothing worse than caesium and iodine. That's why I bought more PEN today.