The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media.
Students wear masks at an elementary school outside of the 20-km (12 mile) radius zone from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, September 8. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the archipelago, deep into the ocean and around the globe---including the US. It will ultimately impact millions, including many here in North America.
The potentially thankful news is that Fukushima's three melting cores may have not have melted deep into the earth, thus barely avoiding an unimaginably worse apocalyptic reality.
But it's a horror that humankind has yet to fully comprehend.
As Fukushima's owners now claim its three melted reactors approach cold shutdown, think of this: