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You would think 6 nuke reactors out of control (with 2 known meltdowns unabated) in still quaking Japan would lead the news or at least be a second runner up to raging North Africa.

The Union of Concerned Scientists examined photos and film from March 27 and reports:

” . . .  a picture said to have been taken yesterday in the control room of the Unit 2 reactor at Fukushima Dai-Ichi. . .
While Japanese workers seem to have restored lighting to the control room, no other source of power seems to have been restored. All the computer monitors are blank. The clock is dead. None of the equipment status lights and gauges appear to be functional. None of the annunciator windows are lit—and the plant is far from a condition where no parameters are in alarm status. . .  “

Conventional news is reporting (on the web) Highly radioactive water threatens Fukushima with some mention of plutonium but not that a meltdown forms it(!!!). . .

Workers were using sandbags and concrete panels yesterday in a desperate attempt to prevent the contaminated water from spreading further through the plant or into the nearby soil and ocean. . .

Talk about rearranging deck chairs!

There’s just a few items of news on the meltdown since yesterday –

• Contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi site is also present in trenches alongside the reactor buildings.

• Photographic evidence of damage at Fukushima nuclear plant

“A crane normally used to lift and move fuel rods is not visible, indicating the possibility that part of the crane may have fallen into the fuel rod pool and damaged some of the rods.”

• TEPCO says damage possible to reactor pressure containers

“TEPCO officials told reporters Monday morning that despite the continuous pumping in of water to cool down the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactor cores, water levels were not rising as expected, meaning the pressure containers may not be completely sealed off.”

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