Alarm Over Spent Fuel Rods Threatens “Chernobyl on Steroids”

From Prison Planet.

Radioactive rods stored outside main containment facility could cause “catastrophic fires”

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Perhaps the most underreported and deadliest aspect of the three explosions and numerous fires to hit the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor since Saturday is the fact that highly radioactive spent fuel rods which are stored outside of the active nuclear rod containment facility are likely to have been massively compromised by the blasts, an elevation in the crisis that would represent “Chernobyl on steroids,” according to nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen...