Another nuclear accident

There was a nuclear accident just outside of Tokyo today. Luckily there was no radiation. The media is calling it the worst nuclear accident ever. This is because 4 people died and 7 are seriously injured. Now, the death toll is higher, but I still think the fiasco that happened a couple years ago still counts as the 'worst'. That would be where workers were mixing uranium in a bucket (I kid you not) instead of the special mixer for this purpose, and well, it exploded. Two people died, and more than 10,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes because of the radiation.

This does not bode well. Last year 17 reactors were shut down for not meeting safety standards. Very scary. When the bucket incident happened, I remember how aweful it was not knowing what was going on. There was no information.... well, there were lots of scary pictures on tv, but not information in English. People didn't want to go outside. No one knew how bad the situation was - and whether or not we were endangering our health by staying in Tokyo. This time at least I have internet access, so was able to find out what is going on. I guess the really scary thing is that I'm sure there are incidents all the time that don't result in injury/death, so they aren't reported. Don't worry about the big one (earthquake) - the chance of being vaporized seems to be a heck of a lot higher.