日本总算官方承认了大家这一个月来都知道的事实,这次核灾难是和Chernobyl同级的七级核事故。顿时全球股市大受冲击,日本经济的迅速复苏受到极大质疑。 其实从美国太平洋沿岸的放射同位素监测结果来看,日本政府从一开始就没有完全的对公众公布实况: 这里是西雅图的华盛顿大学从物理楼的通风口收集的数据。这里是伯克利的空气测量值。 一致的观察是辐射值高峰开始是3/19或者3/20那几天,也就是对应着日本3/12开始的氢气爆炸。 据纽约时报4/6报道的美国NRC3/26报告 "The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel
from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to one mile from
the units,” and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between
two units and had to be “bulldozed over,” presumably to protect workers
at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred
during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more
extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously
disclosed." 这也就解释了为什么东京电力现在仍然难以控制情况。那里现在是一片核地雷呀。 另一篇日本读卖新闻4/12的报道则解密了东京电力在地震过后在最初24小时的灾难避免过程中的失误:供电车到了却没有电缆,总理亲至核电站要求开阀门东京电力却迟迟不予反应,终于灾难无法避免。