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Japanese professor asks why world isn't helping

Storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear plant to hold radioactive water were constructed in haste and with little concern for safety, according to a member of an emergency team that built the tanks.

More contamination is leaking at Fukushima than Tepco announces, says worker - Alarms inevitably go off during radiation inspections at end of day - Officials: Nothing's being controlled; Prime Minister has no idea what's happening

Contamination in Tokyo suburb 3 times higher than area just 1 mile from Fukushima Daiichi - Nuclear Scientist: Significant contamination in Tokyo, a serious problem

EU-funded Research: Fukushima atmospheric release of 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 used as upper bound in simulation - Chernobyl estimated at 70 to 85 quadrillion

Applies to classified Fukushima documents as well.

Former head of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Gregory Jaczko, says radioactive leaks from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant mixed with ground water are impossible to control. [...] Jaczko: "What was unleashed was a force beyond human control. What you can do is try and mitigate that but you can't really control it. You cannot control groundwater." [...] Tepco has proposed to spend hundreds-of-millions of dollars on a "ice wall" to freeze soil surrounding the reactors and halt the flow of groundwater to the sea. [...]

Tokyo Professor: I want to stress that Japan is on verge of collapse after Fukushima - Osaka Professor: If you don't recognize health risks and take action right now, you have no future (VIDEO)

Radio: Sinkhole potential at Fukushima plant from pumping up groundwater? Nuclear Expert: Yeah, that's a very good point - May very well happen if workers take out too much water from an area (AUDIO)

Russia has been supplying US nuclear power plants with fuel for a dumping price since 1995. But with the HEU-LEU agreement coming to an end, America's nuclear power generation industry is likely to face a sharp fuel price surge and shortage. The HEU-LEU agreement (Megatons to Megawatts Program) signed in 1993 supposed downblending of 500 tons of Soviet-made military grade highly enriched uranium (HEU) (equivalent to 20,000 nuclear warheads) into low-enriched uranium (LEU) to produce fuel for American nuclear power plants out of it. The program supplied up to 40 percent of nuclear fuel for America's 104 nuclear reactors (America's 65 nuclear power plants generate over 19 percent of electric power in the country)