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.

Listen to my discussion with Marcy Wheeler and Jay Ackroyd.

Prime Minister says secrecy law is needed to set up US-style National Security Council. Is Fukushima the reason?

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

Fukushima Reactor 4 still a potential disaster. Three other reactor cores melted into the earth. Action needed.

Does the crisis at Fukushima now demand a global take-over of the repair effort?

Only 16 or 150 types of fish harvested at Fukushima, Japan are now safe to eat.