Reactor Fire

Fire shuts down Cook 1 nuclear reactor. A fire at a nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Michigan 50 miles east of Chicago cause a minor stir.

I got out my geiger counter and noticed elevated levels of background radiation. The normal click count is 5 per minute, and today it was up to 50 counts per minute, meaning that background radiation levels ten times normal.

However, in a nuclear accident like Chernobyl background levels could climb 1000X normal and become life threatening. People need to begin to prepare for the possibility that this "fire" at a nuclear power plant was not an accident.