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Arnie Gundersen, VP of the company running 3-mile Island nuke reactor at the time of that crisis offers a current status report on Fukushima.

PART 1 –

Update on Fukushima: Discovery of Plutonium Leakage and Highly Radioactive Water from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Update on Fukushima: Discovery of Plutonium Leakage and Highly Radioactive Water from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

PART 2 –

Update on Fukushima: Discussion of High Level Radiation Releases and the Previous “Worse Case Senario” Planned for by The Indust from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Update on Fukushima: Discussion of High Level Radiation Releases and the Previous “Worse Case Senario” Planned for by The Indust from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
link from  http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/fukushima-japan-meltdown-update/

ALSO – Der Spiegel reports :

peace activist and author Jonathan Schell discusses the lessons of the Fukushima disaster, mankind’s false impression that it can somehow safely produce electricity from the atom, and why he thinks the partial meltdown in Japan could mark a turning point for the world.

And it could take 50-100 YEARS to remove the spent fuel rods (!!!)

Iodine-131 4,385 times limit found near N-plant
The Yomiuri Shimbun

Radioactive iodine-131 at a level 4,385 times the government-set limit has been detected in the sea adjacent to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government’s nuclear safety agency said Thursday.

The seawater was sampled from a spot just south of drain outlets for the plant Wednesday afternoon, according to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

On the previous day, the agency had announced a seawater iodine level of 3,355 times the limit in a water sample taken Tuesday afternoon. The agency said it is unclear where the iodine came from. The level dropped to 800 times the limit in the Wednesday morning sample before rising again in the afternoon. . . (more)

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110331006073.htm