Fukushima News Update

–  A Unprecedented Radiation Disaster – Fukushima’s Ongoing Fallout (CounterPunch, June 20-22, 2014)

– NHK: Fukushima responsible for “largest-ever” amount of radioactive pollution… “We did something terrible” — Scientist: Nuclear fuel “still melting down… there’s melting happening in the cores” (VIDEO) (ENENews, June 21, 2014)

– Farmers: Fukushima radiation causing mystery disease — Many animals have developed spots all over their bodies — What if this starts to afffect people? It must be examined — Gov’t can’t identify problem (PHOTO) (ENENews, June 20, 2014)

– Nuclear Consultant: Fukushima reactors released about 3 times more radioactivity than Chernobyl — Japan crisis is unprecedented in size, complexity, and consequences — Yet disaster is not over and can become much worse — Very far from being stabilized (ENENews, June 20, 2014)

– 17,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from soil of a public drinking fountain in Yaita city Tochigi (Fukushima Diary, June 19, 2014)

– Food not checked for radiation poses risk in Fukushima: study (Japan Times, June 17, 2014)

H/t reader M.G.:

– TV: “The largest disease outbreak that we know of ever in the oceans” now hitting West Coast — Potential for “global extinction” — “Affects over 20 species… causing catastrophic mortality” — Expert: One of history’s largest wildlife die-offs… signal in ecosystem that something’s not right (VIDEO) (ENENews, June 16, 2014)