"Some experts warned that if the three failing nuclear reactors went into complete meltdown and the rods were to fuse and rupture the containment structures, it could send radiation as far as California and across the US west coast.
'Chernobyl, which happened about 25 years ago, the radioactivity spread around the entire northern hemisphere,' one expert recently told Fox News. 'It depends how many of these cores melt down and how successful they are on containing it once this disaster happens.'"
Source: RawStory