It is far worse than the news is saying

 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=13496908


Kan appointed Kosako after the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan on March 11. The disaster left 26,000 people dead or missing and damaged several reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, setting off the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.

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Volunteer Chie Ohigashi, 27, left, and others... View Full Caption

Volunteer Chie Ohigashi, 27, left, and others help clean a cemetery at Jionin temple in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, April 29, 2011. Many volunteers poured into the disaster-hit region at the beginning of the annual Golden Week holiday which began Friday in Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) Close

In a tearful news conference, Kosako said he could not stay and allow the government to set what he called improper radiation limits of 20 millisieverts a year for elementary schools in areas near the plant.

I was just thinking, this radiation will not just accumulate, it will also destroy the DNA of not just humans, but all of our beloved animals too.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NxTtNIlFw