If you based your opinion on the japan nuclear problem on the lack of media coverage of late, one might think that the crisis is over.  But really, it is only beginning.

As with most disasters, the truth has been slow in coming from the first reports that there was very little radiotion leaked into the atmosphere to the story of the Fukashima 50 who risked their lives to try and seal the leaks.  Now, from democracynow.org comes the story that three of the nuclear plans had full meltdowns.

Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, new radiation "hot spots" may require the evacuation of more areas further from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency recently admitted for the first time that full nuclear meltdowns occurred at three of the plant’s reactors, and more than doubled its estimate for the amount of radiation that leaked from the plant in the first week of the disaster in March. “What they failed to mention is that they discharged an equally large amount into the ocean,” says our guest Robert Alvarez, former senior policy adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. “As [the radiation] goes up the food chain, it accumulates. By the time it reaches people who consume this food, the levels are higher than they originally were when they entered the environment.” Alvarez also discusses his new report on the vulnerabilities and hazards of stored spent fuel at U.S. reactors in the United States.