Now that radiation levels at Fukushima are at 10 million times above normal, what avenues are left to solve this crisis? We seek expert international intervention because at these levels of deadly radiation most easy-to-deploy domestic solutions can no longer be implemented. The likely human cost in terms of radiation exposure is too horrendous to contemplate in terms of land, sea and air intervention despite the joint efforts of the Japan Self-Defence-Force and the US military. The alternative may be to deploy robots but at this heightened level of raidation even their software-driven semiconductor brains could malfunction.
Escalating Concern
We have written a number of briefings about this unfolding nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima since its very beginning. Our very first red alert in regard to this nuclear emergency was issued on 11th March, the day of the Tsunami. We have been concerned about the Japan-specific and global implications of this crisis because of the radiation exposure for ordinary citizens and workers; food and water contamination; vast spent fuel pools carrying many decades worth of used fuel rods; as well as the Plutonium MOX fuel rods at reactor 3, which is one of the deadliest substances known to humankind.
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