Horrible.
THe other building blew though. QUestion is: did the housing blow?
If so = disaster.
There are 30-40 similar GE reactors here in the United States by the way. 40 years old.
The fact that neither containment structure has been breached, after the worst earthquake in recorded Japanese history, and a 10 meter tsunami, is a testament to the hardiness of these reactors. The amount of radiation that has been released has been negligible, notwithstanding the figures released breathlessly by the MSM. The amount recorded has been about what a person would receive in a CT scan, or from eating about 400 bananas in a year. Look up the "Banana Equivalent Dose", to see what I mean by that.
The Fukushima reactors were of the old design, and were going to be taken off-line in the next few years anyway. The Generation III reactors that are coming online will not have the need for cooling water to be pumped in, therefore won't end up with the problems these had, when the electricity to the pumps was cut.
“There are 30-40 similar GE reactors here in the United States by the way”
Actually there are 23 GE boiler reactors in the US. With that said, it wasn’t the quake that caused the problem it was the tsumani that caused the pumps to fail. The majority of the US plants aren’t in areas prone to tsumani.