Japanese Diplomat urges UN intervention on SFP4

In-depth update from ABC-Australia's Mark Willacy, the ABC's Japanese-speaking correspondent based in Tokyo.

Willacy interviews Japanese nuclear professor Hiroaki Koide, US energy policy adviser Robert Alvarez, TEPCO spokesman Yoshimi Hitosugi, undercover journalist Tomohiko Suzuki and most importantly retired diplomat to Switzerland, Misuhei Murata.

Murata states he has written to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, urging international intervention to save the world from another bigger nuclear catastrophe of the spent fuel pool at Unit 4 failing and releasing huge extra amounts of deadly radiation.

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[frank golderer]

The people with power are insane and the people the masses are asleep we are doomed.

[49vega]

They have been already started to fix it, the problem is that it could not be in hurry 'cause of radiation.

[memberHD]

lets not get too hung up on a youtube explanation. What I said is not wrong, it's just not the full story and is more then enough of an answer to someone asking "Why the hydrogen explosion?" If they are asking such a 'simple' questions its a good chance what you replied to me with would go right over their head

[rainkame2]

They aren't lying. The distance of 62 kilo meters is little more than "a few kilo meters away", given the magnitude of the disaster, which, were it to occur, could blow all of Japan.

[Hamad Oman]

How could you remove those rods in this dangerous situation?

Manipulation with Nuke rods!

Are you serious?

Do Not try something could make the situation worse.

US destroyed Japan in WW2 and then it taught Japanese how to destroy themselves.

What a relationship!

I agree that Japan is playing with fire.

Fukushima crisis is 10 times more than Chernobyl crisis which indicates that even experts can Not anticipate the extent of this crisis.

I think whole world can Not sleep peacefully, Not Only you.

[544001]

they don't plan on fixing it until "sometime next year"?

[Danny Froberg]

TEPCO needs to be banned from operating Nuclear plants...Geeez!

[Medovukha]

Pressure reactors suck so much for the very reason of meltdowns, high costs, and the horrible inefficiency of uranium as a fuel.