Well well, trouble in Paradise... "TEPCO official denies Abe’s claim that nuclear crisis is 'under control'"

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It's been out of control since day one. There are three melted down cores that no one knows the whereabouts of at the moment. Why are we even discussing whether Fukushima is 'out of control' or not.

The severity of this situation is being greatly under estimated on purpose so that those immediately effected by it (hello Tokyo) will not panic. Tokyo's drinking water is already showing evidence of radioactive contamination.

700 tons of contaminated water per day is a lot of water. After a year that is roughly 255,000 tons of water that is going to be held on site whether in containers or by leaking into the ground and then perhaps into the ocean (they don't know really where the water goes after it seeps under the plant). This assumes that the 700 ton number is accurate, though if it is higher things get worse faster.

The 'water' that is being poured into the site to cool the SFP's and the cores no one knows the status of is quickly turing into a problem in and of itself. This contaminated water will overwhelm the site eventually and cause far larger problems since the water itself is so radioactive they can not get near it.

Add that to the fact that they are putting the water they can extract into steel containers for storage, which will deteriorate thru corrosion at an accelerated pace due to the fact that the two most corrosive substances on this earth are: salt water and radioactive elements. 2 years and those containers are done, at the end of their useful life span. Count on it.

It's a safe bet that the 2020 Olympics will not be held in Tokyo.

The scale of the problem they are dealing with is off the charts and it is not being dealt with as such.