Thank you.

This is James Corbett of Corbett Report.

With your Sunday update for this 15th day of May 2011.

And now for the real news.

A series of worrying incidents at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

has drawn the eyes of the international media away from the Osama bin Laden spectacle

and back toward Northeastern Japan this week. In a string of increasingly alarming reports,

every one of the troubled reactors at the site

faced major new setbacks this week

as the Tokyo Electric Power Co and the Japanese government struggled to maintain the appearance

that the situation was under control.

After admitting that radiation levels in the building housing reactor number one

had reached 700

milliseeverts per hour on Monday.

Tepko was forced to concede on Thursday that the reactor core has in fact been

exposed and melted down causing a leak in the containment vessel itself.

This not only poses greater likelihood of contamination of groundwater, but makes it even more difficult

to continue cooling operations.

As one nuclear advisor noted,

Teepko's current operation of flooding the core

must now be scrapped as large amounts of cold water hitting melted fuel

could trigger another explosion,

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