Finally, TEPCO can no longer deny the level of radioactive destruction in its Fukushima plants.
Unit #1 has a confirmed meltdown of its core, #4 is about to collapse, and #2 is leaking radioactive water like a sieve.
Arnie Gunderson has a great new video update you should watch.
Dr. Helen Caldicott posts truly wonderful and up-to-date information on her facebook page. She is not only very knowledgeable, but works tirelessly to educate whoever will listen about the many false claims to the relative safety of nuclear power from a physician's and activist's perspective. She is awesome, go find her page on facebook now. Just open up a new tab and go do it if you care to learn about nuclear power throughout the world.
Giant tents will cover the reactors! Presumably to reduce steam and atmospheric releases. And like Chris pointed out, it will also shield cameras quite well. The only good news in that article is that there will be no limit set on the liabilities Tepco will have to pay.
The risk of another explosion, in #1, is still possible. Since there is a confirmed meltdown there, an explosion would be bad, right?
Since radiation from Fukushima probably never really ended, the rain is not as safe as we might want to believe. Cesium is still high around the reactors; when will Japan's ground water and oceans be safe enough to support life without also causing cancers? Why will the US not learn from Japan?
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