"A Spoonful Weighs A Ton"

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the world's largest nuclear plant on Monday, causing a transformer fire. Since then, revelations have been coming out about spills and leaks at the plant. Initially, plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said there was no leak of radioactivity. Then it said there was a small leak of radioactively contaminated water. Then the size of the leak turned out to be much larger than originally reported, and the water was 50 percent more radioactive than they had first said. Then it came out that hundreds of nuclear waste barrels had fallen over, with the lids coming off dozens of them. Oh and, it was revealed that cobalt-60 and chromium-51 was released into the atmosphere from an exhaust stack. About 315 gallons of slightly radioactive water apparently spilled from a tank at one of the plant's seven reactors and entered a pipe that flushed it into the sea, said Jun Oshima, an executive at Tokyo Electric Power Co. Note; How about that extended new coverage by the tele reporter? I suppose they had to make room for the latest Nick Nolte drunk photos in the Hawaii airport? C'mon let's have a follow up on the real story here!