A full meltdown at a nuke plant would surely hit population centers. Back during 3 Mile Island, I had one eye on the Philly airport if needed. My prof was in a crew monitoring the episode. I happened to be taking a course in rad physics at that point.
Doubt this is anything but...
There's a new virus/spyware spreading around through AIM (now being referred to as the "Osama Virus")
Details:
http://www.imchaos.com/alert/ Fixes:
http://j.wftp.org/ http://rcc.bgsu.edu/faq/FixMessageTrojans.htm I actually got this last night, silly me (easy enough to get rid of though)... It came in the form of an instant message saying "Osama has been captured" and brings you to a flash type game of Saddam Hussein collecting nukes. After it runs, it shuts down all programs after resending the link to your entire buddy list. In about 12 hours yesterday it had been passed through much of our campus (University of Connecticut).
The "virus/spyware" came from a site with the domain "www.wgutv.com."