I know a lot of cats on HN are pretty educated on a whole range of topics. I live in Tokyo, and have come to realize I know next to nothing about how this could play out. Throwing it out there for anyone that has the education to answer and has been following the latest reports.<p>Also a shoutout to http://twitter.com/timeouttokyo/ for doing an amazing job keeping everyone in the know as stories develop.
Check the winds!<p>Chernobyl is only 100km from Kiev, but as the winds were blowing in the opposite direction the Ukraine's capital was unscathed and the majority of fallout was over Belarus.<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-quake-wind-idAFL3E7EC0A620110312" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-quake-wind-i...</a>