Urgent Request to Prime Minister Noda
To: Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan
An Urgent Request on UN Intervention on Stabilization of the Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Nuclear Fuel
Recently, former diplomats and experts both in Japan and
abroad stressed the extremely risky condition of the Fukushima Daiichi
Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool and this is being widely reported by
world media. Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy
Studies (IPS), who is one of the best-known experts on spent nuclear
fuel, stated that in Unit 4 there is spent nuclear fuel which contains
Cesium-137 (Cs-137) that is equivalent to 10 times the amount that was
released at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Thus, if an
earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain, this could
result in a catastrophic radiological fire.
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