[Translate] Asahi Shimbun has uncovered more details about the early events of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.  What they uncovered fills some of the information gaps about what transpired between the US and Japan during those early days. Before unit 4 exploded, the US was already deeply worried about the spent fuel pool there. A classified diplomatic cable on March 14th urged Japan to use the SDF (Japan’s military) to become involved in the effort to regain control of 4′s spent fuel pool that had a full offload of fuel from the reactor. Also noted in what Asahi Shimbun was able to find was that on March 15th, radiation warning alarms went off at Yokosuka Naval Base 300km from Fukushima Daiichi. All women and children on the base were ordered to evacuate. It was already … Read entire article »