http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-reactor-4-life-on-planet-earth-in-the-balance/ Japanese Diplomat Akio Matsumura says there is an urgent need to take total control away from Tepko in managing this disaster.Akio says Japan needs international help but the UN wants no no part of it.

Reactor No.4 which exploded still has over 1500 spent fuel rods.There are over a total of 11000 spent rods on this site.If reactor 4 goes again,it could cause the meltdown of all rods at this site.This would be 85 times worse than Chernobyl and would affect the entire planet.

Arnie Gunderson of Fairwinds http://www.fairewinds.com/ recently went to Tokyo which is 200 km from Fukushima.He took randmom soil samples and all these would be considered to be serious nuclear waste in the USA.Japanese officials have just increased the permissable radiation levels for humans in order to stop alarm and panic.

The full extent of this disaster will not be realised for decades to come.Elements such as caesium,strontium,plutonium and uranium stay in our environment for hundreds to millions of years and there is no way of cleaning it up.

Ajay....couldn't agree more with your words. The UN is right not to intervene for the very reason every country has there own full responsibility to govern this technology, "and use at your own risk" I thought it would have been a better title:)...but what of the world Ajay, and if its poisoned.....?.....there are NO second chances with material, so full agree with the UN,s decisions.

The Japan Government has failed to take the necessary actions with such a highly toxic substance and there on there own. They knew there was a fault line 200 or so miles offshore.....and they hadn't the insight to check out there geographical position.

Its like putting a plant on the shores of NZ....lol...wonder how that would of worked out:)

Like Ajay has pointed out, there is not such thing as safe when it comes to this subject.

I'd rather like up a candle than put up with a risk that doesnt need any more thought than that.

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Planet3,It was General Electric a US company that designed and built these reactors.Tepko and the Japanese Govt are in denial.There needs to be an international body that can provide the money and expertise to get this under control.

Part of the Japanese culture is this flawed notion of saving face at all costs and that means covering up the reality.

Let us also highlight, it was built badly, on fault lines, cover ups took place every inch of the way.
Unwise in the extreme to build there, ignore advice it was not safe.
Covering it up was bad too.
The worst affect may well be the damage and fear of this form of power.
We can use Nuclear, in the right place built the right way and supervised every step of the way.
In fact, given current technology it is the best maybe only way to cut carbon quickly.

Ajay...at this point, you will here no more from me in those words.

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P/S...and spot on:)

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