The latest on the nuclear crisis: it could last for "weeks or even months."
WASHINGTON — As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants could go on for weeks or even months. [...]
On Sunday evening, the White House sought to tamp down concerns, saying that modeling done by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had concluded that “Hawaii, Alaska, the U.S. Territories and the U.S. West Coast are not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity.”
Uh-huh. Yeah. For now. What if one of the reactors goes into a full meltdown? Or what if there are continued explosions? There's no indication that these NRC models factor in "weeks or months" for these released of radioactivity, or whether they're factoring in worst case scenarios.
Adding... Here's the hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima power plant late last night:
Ugh. Bad, bad, bad.