If you want to understand better Fukushima today:

Watch today's broadcast of PBS Newshour for Friday March 11th, 2016 online:

As I'm watching this on my DVR TIVO it is starting at minute 31 and is still going strong at minute 37 and beyond where I'm watching it now.

Basically, the problem I've outlined before is that one of the 3 meltdowns was a reprocessing station for reprocessing Plutonium which was weapons grade. The main problem with this is that Plutonium has a half life of 25,000 years. What this actually means in real time is that plutonium radiation will travel in ground water out into the ocean for the next 25,000 to 50,000 years or more from the plutonium meltdown. And there is really nothing known really to stop this. However, they are attempting to freeze the ground with pipes put 100 feet down into the ground 1 mile long and freezing the ground. However, if you have ever been around water much nothing really stops it eventually. and the also have 1000 huge tanks that they store the radiated water that they have collected. But, at most these tanks will last 50 to 100 years before they leak the radiated water into the ocean once again. I can't imagine generations yet unborn trying to still store the radiated water still 100 or 500 years from now as the tanks all start to rust out from salt air within 20 to 50 years.

But, for right now, if you even get in the vicinity of the meltdowns it will kill human beings and what might be surprising to some of you it also kills robots. They have not so far been able to design a robot that can work very long around the meltdowns.

So, it kills all robots too eventually.

One of the directors there said something like: "I hope this place becomes a worldwide gathering place to study these problems over the next 30 to 40 years."

Like I said, "Unless people figure out some way to stop the meltdowns from being in the water table they are going to keep dumping radiation into the oceans through the water table for the next 25,000 to 50,000 years."

So, any of you who think that nuclear power plants are safe just think about Fukushima radiating the oceans the next 25,000 to 50,000 years likely. Because it is quite possible no one is going to be able to stop this. Because all the major oceans of the worlds are connected. So, radiation that leaves Fukushima and goes into the ocean slowly increases the radiation level of all the oceans of the world over time. It's sort of like this: "a drop in an empty bucket isn't much but imagine that drop is every ten seconds for the next 50,000 years. In that time it might fill Lake Tahoe or a bigger lake or even an ocean. Think about it. And what is this going to do to the genetics of everything that lives in the ocean or swims at the surface of the ocean?