Recent content by lapsedgeo

The amount and quality of information you guys have amassed and what you have in your brain boxes is amazing for an non-scientific outsider to behold, keep up the good work. Can I ask a probably annoying basic question (in relation to everything else on here), watching the helicopters dropping...

As a non-nuclear boffin this is starting to feel out of control which is scary, when you guys get jumpy I get really jumpy.

I see on Twitter that the US Embassy in Japan is now advising US citizens within 80k to evacuate area.

Thank you all for calm and informed analysis, as a member of Joe Public this has been such a helpful place to visit. Every day it seems to get a little worse and I detect a note of resignation in all your posts now. Hearing that the spent fuel pond is on fire has made my heart sink. As a...

As a lapsed geographer of many years (and a Mum) trying to explain not only the earthquake and the tsunami but also what on Earth is going on with the reactors to her teenage son thank you for posting such helpful information - it's certainly keeping me up to date in a way that the media aren't.[