Well if you watch the Fukushima live cam you would see smoke/steam rising intermittently when it’s cold enough. You know the cores are still molten and giving off radiation freely.
The cores aren’t likely “still molten” - they’re still hot enough to boil water, but that’s a LONG way from the core being “molten.”
There’s a huge difference.
Giving off radiation? Yes. Even “spent” reactor fuel gives off radiation.
Steam as a byproduct of the water being used to cool the reactors is hardly a smoldering coastline.
Otherwise, I guess I should be pretty worried, because we have “smoldering” buildings right here in my town.
Even if one of the reactors caught fire, it wouldn’t be the same as a “smoldering coastline”.
I was mostly commenting because I was actually impressed seeing a side-by-side picture gallery of Japan. A lot of cleanup (and a lot of boats still stranded in the middle of land, and a LOT Of work to do still to get back to normal, and a lot of people suffering still for reasons that have nothing to do with one failed nuclear power plant.