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Great interview @Bo thanks for posting it @AustrailianCannonball

The explosive truth behind Fukushima's meltdown
Japan insists its nuclear crisis was caused by an unforeseeable combination of tsunami and earthquake. But new evidence suggests its reactors were doomed to fail

The Independent has spoken to several workers at the plant who recite the same story: serious damage, to piping and at least one of the reactors, occurred before the tsunami hit. All have requested anonymity because they are still working at or connected with the stricken plant. Worker A, a maintenance engineer who was at the Fukushima complex on the day of the disaster, recalls hissing, leaking pipes.

"I personally saw pipes that had come apart and I assume that there were many more that had been broken throughout the plant. There's no doubt that the earthquake did a lot of damage inside the plant... I also saw that part of the wall of the turbine building for reactor one had come away. That crack might have affected the reactor."

The reactor walls are quite fragile, he notes: "If the walls are too rigid, they can crack under the slightest pressure from inside so they have to be breakable because if the pressure is kept inside... it can damage the equipment inside so it needs to be allowed to escape. It's designed to give during a crisis, if not it could be worse – that might be shocking to others, but to us it's common sense." Worker B, a technician in his late 30s who was also on site at the time of the earthquake, recalls: "It felt like the earthquake hit in two waves, the first impact was so intense you could see the building shaking, the pipes buckling, and within minutes I saw pipes bursting. Some fell off the wall.
More: www.independent.co.uk

That was in enenews.com

@ALL Bom dia , good morning

Tepco Behind Schedule in Processing Radioactive Water on Equipment Trouble
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has fallen behind schedule to process and remove millions of liters of highly radioactive water at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant because of repeated equipment breakdowns.
Around 119 million liters of the water -- enough to fill more than 47 Olympic-sized swimming pools -- has accumulated in building basements, including four reactor facilities. That’s down 2 percent from 121 million liters on June 28, according to data released yesterday by the utility known as Tepco.
“It would be disastrous if the accumulated water leaks to the environment,” Tetsuo Ito, the head of the Atomic Energy Research Institute at Kinki University, said in a telephone interview. Rainfall and underground water leakage into the basements is adding to the volume of radioactive water, he said. www.bloomberg.com

@elainekirk And where do you stand regarding the radiation hormesis theory?