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I hear it is at chernobyl.. at as you can imagine a huge cost and time effort.. it is supposed to be the largest movable structure ever built

@Dean: In a few weeks they will declare the situation as "stable" (even if might not really be), and the media will stop reporting, so we won't know what'll happen afterwards. They will probably spend a couple of years trying to clean it up after.

@Dawn Here is a link to CDC that refrences water treatment, etc. www.cdc.gov

@Dean Thanks for the link to the CNIC MOX dangers report. Here's the part that jumped out at me: "When MOX fuel is burned in nuclear plants designed for burning uranium fuel, many safety problems arise. For example, the control rods worth are reduced, the emission of radioactive gasses increase, and difficulties arise due to the lower delayed neutron ratio. (See International MOX Assessment report published by CNIC.) Using MOX fuel which is of a low quality, or which exceeds the reactor's design criteria, further increases the likelihood of accidents. "

I said it last night, but I'll mention it again. Some of the brightest minds in the world are on the ground or in a supporting position. It's inherent to its culture. Japan is a proud nation. Not going to go religious here, but pride is the greatest sin. It took Obama 5 days to call the PM of Japan. After all that I've learned over the past two weeks, it is now beginning to make sense. US wanted to know what was going on at Fukushima. GoJ wasn't 'forthcoming' with its answers and still isn't.

@George Gibb; @Ralph Unger : TYVM for setting this up, i love this format. I'll be here around the clock checking the news and trying to provide useful info. when relevant. Thanks again!

mox was loaded last fall ~ what I do not understand is why there would already mox in the spent fuel pool for reactor 3, isnt the fuel used for years?

@Karen Warren ...yeh, but I'll bet GoJ didn't know themselves because TEPCO didn't know themselves but had an awful suspicion...

Here is the (more detailed) report by a water purification company, Lenntech, on iodine in drinking water and its removal. www.lenntech.com

Dawn, still on the subject of drinking water, from my understanding iodine is fairly easy to remove. What scares the life out of me is what happens if the other heavy metals get into the water.

@Karen Warren We're all trying to determine the picture, when we have just a few pieces of the jigsaw puzzle.

@ Dean at 8:06- Thanks for the link to the 'abovetopsecret' article. Interesting read. I have friends in Tokyo with a 4 month old infant, and I will be sending the link on to them. Thank you, very much, for the time you take to contribute to our knowledge.

@radioguy Maybe I can find the link, but one scientist reported that only about 1.5% of the plutonium in MOX actually undergoes fission and it is put in there to thwart terrorism because "it is too hot to handle" ???

Thanks, Dean & Janis - I am concerned as well with the safety of our water. It's all the same world; we drink the same water, eat food that relies on that water, and breathe the same air. As I understand it, water is the only substance that boils at 100C, and so distilled water would likely be 'pure'. But I have a really lousy concept of chemistry, so I may be wrong...

Is abovetopsecret a credible source?

futureisnow.. I'm the same dean

@I don't know, may be someone wanting to have respect, or audience.

future: the forum is looser than Reuters, i.e., more relaxed.

@futureisnow I think here Dean has a little bit more latitude than he did at Reuters so he is more freely sharing information/opinion perhaps.