TEPCO now admits that the whole Fukushima site contains 80 fuel rods damaged prior to 2011.

Two views of the spent fuel pool at TEPCO Fukushima Reactor 4. Animation is very instructive (though idealized).

While some experts fear Fukushima could go critical, with 85 times the nuclear contamination of Chernobyl.

Writer w 20-yrs Japan experience: “They’ve extended the Japanese patronage system to benefit from the disaster.”