Environment

There's Still a Major Crisis in Japan, Cont…

Radioactive water is gushing into the ocean. Sounds like a radioactive Deepwater Horizon.

Experts estimate that about 7 tons an hour of radioactive water is escaping the pit. Safety officials have said that the water, which appears to be coming from the damaged No. 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi, contains one million Becquerels per liter of iodine 131, or about 10,000 times levels normally found in water at a nuclear facility.

Good thing Japan doesn't rely upon fishing.

Oh. Wait.