It seems like there will be an uninhabitable circle 100 miles in diameter around those plants.
I would bet against such a “dead zone”, given what we know about the radiation releases so far.
Of course, some kind of unforeseen catastrophic release could happen, but that is looking increasingly unlikely given the decrease in the tempo of catastrophic events.
My gosh! Could you imagine what the circle would have been if it had been a coal fired power plant in use instead.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is 19 miles, and that reactor spewed its guts into the sky for day after day, which is nothing at all like the situation in Fukushima.
So your “100 miles” is just another example of nonsensical hysteria like the BP well going to “destroy all life in the Altantic” or some such.
You should look at the size of the area around Chernobyl and reconsider.
“It seems like there will be an uninhabitable circle 100 miles in diameter around those plants. “
Sort of like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Oh wait, those cities have been rebuilt. Or perhaps like the hundred miles around the much more serious Chernobyl. Oh wait . . .
Yup, just like at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.