BREAKING: Partial Meltdowns May Have Occurred; Japanese Race to Prevent More

The chance of health impacts on the West Coast of the US and Canada are not of concern. According to experts, what radiation flowed into the jet stream would be greatly diminished. Ordinary people would have to be flying in a plane to absorb fallout from the Japanese meltdown.

Reuters reported the No. 1 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan released radiation after a powerful earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan on Friday left it with a crippled cooling system and the operator was forced to release pressure that had built up in the reactor.

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