Well if a fire or another earthquake happened before the fuel rods are removed certainly it would be a situation of extreme
danger that could possibly render a large area of Northern Japan uninhabitable. Even if the ground continues to sink, which it is expected to, the entire structure could collapse, which would fully drain the cooling pool and cause a catastrophic meltdown. It would be disaster of unprecedented magnitude.
If I woke up to a terminal cancer illness and only had 6 months to live I think I would volunteer to help clean up fukishima...
Maybe the radiation would cure my cancer....
It would be a better chance than Obama care...
Building nuclear plants in Japan was logical for a country that had to import just about every drop of fuel it used.
Building nuclear plants in Japan, one of the seismic active zones in the world, was danger in the extreme and bordering on the insane.
Building nuclear plants in seismic Japan close enough to the sea for destruction by a tsunami was criminal negligence.