http://www.globalresearch.ca/humankinds-most-dangerous-moment-fukushima-fuel-pool-pool-at-unit-4/5350779 Fukushima is on the brink of realising the worst environmental disaster this planet has ever seen. The Japanese culture of saving face and the West's pre-occupation with wars and financial woes,has now let this problem grow out of control.

In reactor 4 they have over 1300 spent fuel rods in damaged racks. Normally computer guided robots remove them but now the really dangerous task of removing them by Tokoyo Electric who have proven their past competence,sends shudders up the spines of those who know the real dangers.

It has been estimated that over one million people died from Chernobyl as a result of cancers. If reactor 4 goes up, this will be 80 times worse than Chernobyl. Dr Helen Cauldicott says that they will have to evacuate all of Tokoyo (30 million people) if reactor 4 fuel rods go into melt down. There are a total of 11,000 fuel rods on this site.

Please sign this petition asking for the global response to this impending disaster. http://www.nukefree.org/crisis-fukushima-4-petition-un-us-global-response

Arjay in all good faith I never could sign that.
The Japanese Government and the firm involved are totally responsible for this huge event.
That face saving never hid they fact from the very start of construction till the day it felt the effects of the Tusami, they cared little.
In fact no less than Russia and its Chenoble, this event did great harm to what we one day will see as the most intelligent way to get cleaner air.
Nothing can remove the crime both country,s by actions that should never have taken place greatly damaged their country and ours, to a lessor extent.
Japan did the crime to learn it most first stop lieing to the world and its own people.

Belly on another thread you posted this;

"Nuclear power will be the best way to reduce global warming.
Remember any such power here would be best practice.
And look no further that the far far less than that Japan used.
In fact no one could do worse than they did.
We must not let the pink left conservationists stop the best clean up the planet tool Nuclear power."
Above you are all for nuclear power but this line says it all:
"Japan did the crime to learn it most first stop lieing to the world and its own people."
Like in war the first causality of a nuclear accident is the truth. This has been demonstrated time and time again. The constant lies that safeguards are in place that prevent any possibility of an accident, nuclear accidents are real and catastrophic. There are sustainable renewable forms of energy that can replace coal burning power stations in Australia without the need to go down the nuclear road with all its inherent dangers.

Belly it is affecting the whole of the Pacific Ocean including the USA.

Nuclear pollution cannot be removed from the environment and concentrates in the food we eat.

It is not only the cancers that are a danger but the permanent damage to our genetic integrity.

If Tokoyo goes down,we are looking at millions of boat people and with this instability serious wars.

Cast your eyes across the globe to where the remnants of the Russian Navel Fleet is rusting away.
Part of the deal for Russia to close down the cold war was that America would assist in the decommission of their nuclear fleet.
It never happened.
Every couple of months another rusted ship sinks at their moorings and among them already are three nuclear subs and a cruiser.
It is estimated that by 2040 or earlier there will not be a fish alive in the north sea because of nuclear contamination.

Arjay,
I suggest that you are even further out of your depth than I am on this subject.

The initial Fukuyama problem was caused by a hydrogen explosion in a high pressure light water reactor due to a cooling water explosion. Provided the fuel rods are kept cool, preferably under water, there is no prospect of a meltdown.

In his book, "Thorium; Energy cheaper than coal" physicist Robert Hargraves disputes the Linear No Threshold theory (of radiation effects). He states;
1.that people living in places with five times normal background radiation exhibit no more cancer,
2. that the observed death rate for highly exposed Chernobyl heroes are not linear: 2% for 2.5 Sv exposure, 33% for 5 Sv.
3. that residents of a Taiwan building where residents were exposed to radiation from steel contaminated by radioactive cobalt-60 had fewer cancers. In that case, for the 8,000 people exposed, the normal cancer rate would be 186. LNT theory predicted 242 cancers but the observed rate was only 5 (five).

I don't know if you surf but, one cubic metre of sea water contains 3gm of uranium.

The thing to remember about radioactive materials is that the longer the half life the less the danger