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Watching a MP drinking decontaminated water is hardly reassuring.

"Signs of nuclear fission detected" is a real story:

""Given the signs, it is certain that fission is occurring," Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at Tepco, told reporters.

Evidence that even partial or temporary nuclear fission had occurred underlined the fragile state of the plant almost eight months after it was struck by a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out vital cooling systems."

The evidence is based on the presence of radioactive gases that have very short half-lives, which means the gases were generated recently by nuclear fission. This is irrefutable evidence that Reactor Unit 2 is still not stabilized. That's very bad news.

Charley Noble