Tokyo Electric Power Company will begin the unprecedented effort today to remove over 1,500 spent and unused fuel rods from Reactor 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The fuel rods are submerged in 23 feet of water in a containment pool suspended 100 feet in the air in a building that was damaged during the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Here’s longtime anti-nuclear activist and author Harvey Wasserman.
Here’s Canadian scientist and environmental activist David Suzuki.
Thanks Steve,
As the fuel rods are being pulled today (originally scheduled for Nov 8) some minor coverage has been noticed on the M$M, finally. Communications to the state public radio network ignored for about eight weeks now. NPR next to nothing, also.
Information offered has largely been to minimize or cover for TEPCO for quite some time.
http://my.firedoglake.com/gregglevine/2012/02/29/frontlines-fukushima-meltdown-perpetuates-industry-lie-that-tsunami-not-quake-started-nuclear-crisis/
For those who didn’t bother to make it to the end of the Suzuki clip, which is from three weeks ago, he says he’s seen a paper on the Fukushima situation which stated that if the worst case scenario occurs, and there’s a strong chance of that, it’s ” bye bye Japan ” meaning it will likely become uninhabitable, I suppose, and that we should consider evacuating the entire west coast of North America. Seems like news to me, but what do I know.