Japan Nuclear Crisis: TEPCO, Operator Of Damaged Plant, Confirms Meltdowns At 2 More Reactors Early In Crisis

"How many casualties occurred at Chernobyl as compared to Fukushima?­" is the wrong question to ask because radionucli­des especially plutonium-­239 released into the environmen­t will be causing cancers, birth defects, life shortening­, mental retardatio­n, and other major problems for everyone who inhales or ingests the slightest speck of it for the next quarter of a million years. So it's too early to know how many of the thousands upon thousands of people in all those generation­s are going to be 'casualtie­s' of today's nuclear stupidity, but one thing's for certain and that's that our distant descendant­s will consider world culture at this time as consisting of barbaric subhuman psychopath­s for crapping up the entire world with radioactiv­ity at their expense, and doing so knowingly, for nothing more than a selfish desire for cheap electric power.
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TEPCO: Fukushima nuclear meltdown actually occurred just 16 hours after earthquake, more meltdowns on the way

"The truth has finally come out, as officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) now admit that fuel in Reactor 1 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex melted just 16 hours after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area on March 11, 2011. When asked why it took more than two months to reveal this critical information, TEPCO officials claim that a lack of data left the company unaware of the core's true condition until only recently -- and new reports indicate that other meltdowns could soon follow."

Full Story: http://www.naturalnews.com/032437_Fukushima_nuclear_meltdown.html

Radioactive fallout from Fukushima will last for decades

Fukushima beyond point of no return as radioactive core melts through containment vessel.

No American or Japanese news agency is accurately reporting the ongoing problems at Fukushima as well as several other Japanese nuclear plants, you have to find news from objective sources like Al Jazeera or the UK's Guardian:

"The battle to save the Fukushima nuclear power plant now appears lost as the radioactive core from Reactor No. 2 has melted through the containment vessel and dropped into the concrete basement of the reactor structure. This is "raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site," reports The Guardian, which broke the story (). A former General Electric nuclear expert told The Guardian that Japan appears to have "lost the race" to save the reactor."

Rense & Yoichi Shimatsu - Shredding The Deadly Lies Of Fukushima

Some interesting commentary on the Japanese attempts to control the media to minimize the disaster.  Other reactors are having problems too that they're not even talking about yet!

NRC Changes Tune On Plant Safety

"Critics of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission received fresh ammunition on Thursday when the agency revealed that many of the nation's aging nuclear power plants would be ill-equipped to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters."
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/13/nrc-changes-tune-on-plant_n_861722.html

Obviously they've been maintaining a denial state for years and are finally being forced to admit the truth.  Thank God it's about time.

Robots give us some closeup views on the damage

Robots sent into the reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear plant have found massive radiation levels, preventing workers from entering. TEPCO also announced a new 9 month plan to stabilize the situation, proposing to cover the reactors with a Chernobyl-like sarcophagus. The situation at the nuclear complex remains critical, with high radiation and difficult access hampering progress.




















From May 10: NEW video Destroyed Spent Fuel Pool SFP3 of Reactor Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi 8 May 2011:



In the comments to the video above user 'Rep0007' says "That's blasted cement and tangled REBAR, not fuel racks. It's debris that fell back into the hole after a FAST CRITICALITY blew the melted spent-fuel rods through the reactor roof 1,000 feet into the sky. ANY QUESTIONS?? Spent fuel pile #3 WENT CRITICAL, IT BLEW IN A NUCLEAR "FLASH" in milliseconds--not a full "confined" nuclear explosion, probably only a half-kiloton inefficient "fizzle". That's what you're looking at in the blast video--not a tame little "hydrogen explosion"."

If that's true the contamination will be MUCH higher than TEPCO or even our agencies are letting on, and they should know by now simply by radiation forensics -- detecting the downwind composition and quantities of radionuclides.

Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor 'leaning'

Fukushima groundwater contamination worst in nuclear history

Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.