Hackers penetrate U.S. defense contractors’ security networks

From Raw Story  Excerpts:

Reuters is reporting that unknown hackers have broken into the networks of Lockheed Martin and other major defense contractors and may have gained access to sensitive information on present and future weapons systems.

Reuters had reported earlier on Friday that "Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier, is experiencing a major disruption to its computer systems that could be related to a problem with network security." The disruption began last Sunday, when security experts detected an intrusion.

According to an anonymous source with knowledge of the attacks, the hackers used data stolen in March from the RSA security division of EMC Corp. to duplicate security keys which gave them access to the networks.

"You have no idea how many people are freaked out right now," one security expert told Reuters, explaining that the RSA keys could no longer be considered fully secure.

I'm sure that last statement is a major understatement.  This article is just a tiny peek into the Cyber War, already in progress..  Will this endgame involve a massive explosion, or prevention of a massive explosion?  Another scary as hell, yet fascinating scenario.  Damn this Information Age and it's would be controllers and their silly deadly games..

Japan Updates: May 28, 2011

Let's check in with our latest potentially-catastrohic cataclysm heading towards our next-to-latest catastrophic cataclysm..  Nuclear Hurricane?  If this were a movie, it would be made by and shown on SciFi..  Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima Nuke Plant.  Fucking Really?  (Found it on Rense.)

Fukushima I Nuke Plant: High Concentration of Radioactive Cesium in the Ocean Soil in 300-Kilometer Strip Along the Coast  From Ex-SKF via Rense.  Excerpts:

Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi City in Chiba Prefecture.

Oh what a surprise. Who could have known?

The Ministry of Education and Science, who did the survey, even goes to contradict the oft-repeated statement by the chief cabinet secretary and says "the marine products may be affected."

Tepco Failed to Disclose Scale of Fukushima Radiation Leaks, Academics Say Bloomberg via Rense.  Excerpts:

As a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (!!)visits Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled nuclear plant today, academics warn the company has failed to disclose the scale of radiation leaks and faces a “massive problem” with contaminated water.

The utility known as Tepco has been pumping cooling water into the three reactors that melted down after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. By May 18, almost 100,000 tons of radioactive water had leaked into basements and other areas of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant. The volume of radiated water may double by the end of December and will cost 42 billion yen ($518 million) to decontaminate, according to Tepco’s estimates.

“Contaminated water is increasing and this is a massive problem,” Tetsuo Iguchi, a specialist in isotope analysis and radiation detection at Nagoya University, said by phone. “They need to find a place to store the contaminated water and they need to guarantee it won’t go into the soil.”

Flip-flopping government shoots self in foot  Asia One

Contradictory statements about emergency efforts to cool the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor have damaged the government's credibility as a source of information, and will do nothing to improve Prime Minister Naoto Kan's standing in the international community.

Last Saturday, the government said the injection of seawater into the No. 1 reactor had been temporarily halted on March 12, but altered its account Thursday after Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the seawater injection had continued uninterrupted.
This reversal follows a correction issued by the government Sunday that amended a quote it had attributed to Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission.
"We haven't been conscientious about checking where information has come from," Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Kan, said Thursday evening at a press conference held by the Government-TEPCO Integrated Response Office.

Lebanese Fear Collateral Damage From Syrian Crisis

Lebanese Fear Collateral Damage From Syrian Crisis.  NPR.  Excerpts:

The unrest in neighboring Syria has the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on edge. Thousands of refugees have poured over the border, the demand for weapons is skyrocketing, and the pro-Syrian Alawite minority is warning of chaos if Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime falls.
Though Hezbollah is the best known of the pro-Syrian actors in Lebanon, residents in Tripoli are more worried about the Alawites, members of the same minority that has ruled Syria for more than 40 years. Their numbers may be small, but they are well-armed and fiercely loyal to Damascus
The Alawite community of Jabal Mohsen stands on the hill above Bab al-Tabbaneh, a poor Sunni neighborhood in Tripoli. Three years ago, it was the scene of intense armed clashes that left dozens dead and hundreds of families displaced. Nobody here wants to see that repeated.
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Rifaat Eid, who heads the Alawite Arab Democratic Party, agrees with Syria's argument that chaos will erupt across the region if Assad's regime is threatened.
"If anything happens in Syria, all the Middle East will be divided," he says. "The serious danger in this is that all the minorities will end in the Middle East, especially the Christians, OK? And I will tell you, as minorities the Jewish will — can't — afford to stay in the Middle East."
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Sunni leaders see the situation differently. Lawmaker Khaled Daher says the catastrophic warnings from Syria and its supporters are simply a tired replay from the Arab dictator's playbook: Back me or face chaos.
"The Syrians are very good at putting fear into people," he says. "I mean, their problem is with their people. They want rights, democracy; this is what they should be working on, their problems with their people. Instead, what are they doing? From the beginning, you know, the Syrians have tried to move the focus from their problem to others."

Kansas nuclear plant closest to deadly tornado in Joplin, Mo., not fully prepared for storm

Comforting.

The closest nuclear power plant to tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo., was singled out weeks before the storm for being vulnerable to twisters.

Inspections triggered by Japan's nuclear crisis found that some emergency equipment and storage sites at the Wolf Creek nuclear plant in southeastern Kansas might not survive a tornado.
Specifically, plant operators and federal inspectors said Wolf Creek did not secure equipment and vehicles needed to fight fires, retrieve fuel for emergency generators and resupply water to keep nuclear fuel cool as it's being moved.
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Those instances, along with the situation at Wolf Creek, highlight a larger problem at the nation's 104 nuclear reactors: While reactors and safety systems are designed to withstand a worst-case earthquake, flood, or tornado, that doesn't necessarily mean all emergency equipment or the buildings that house such equipment are disaster proof.

Wolf Creek's location in Tornado Alley means that it was designed to handle the maximum tornadoes possible for the United States, with wind speeds up to 360 miles per hour and a maximum rotational speed of 290 miles per hour.

But its fire truck is parked in a sheet-metal building "not protected from seismic or severe weather events," according to the NRC inspection conducted after the Japanese disaster.

As the old saying goes:  A chain is only as strong as its weakest link..

Japan Updates: May 27, 2011

Summary:  The Implications continue to expand while retaining almost no chance of a successful outcome:


Japan: elderly engineers want 'final mission' to Fukushima   Nuclear Free Planet.org via Godlike Productions.  Excerpts:

"We shouldn't leave the work only to young engineers... Young people, especially those who have children in future, should not be exposed to radiation." Yasuteru Yamada, 72. Retired engineer.

Nuclear activist calls for mass evacuations in Japan via Godlike Productions.

Anti nuclear activist Helen Caldicott says thousands of people living outside the no-go zone around the power plant should be evacuated.

Fukushima melt-down worse than Chernobyl  The Voice Of Russia, via Rense.  Excerpts:

The situation at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan appears to have fit into the worst predicted scenario. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates Fukushima, has officially admitted that fuel rods at the Fukushima reactors have partially melted, with a melt-down registered at one of the reactors. Remarkably, the announcement came on Tuesday when IAEA delegations arrived in Japan to inspect the power plant.

Certainly, in the first hours after the tragedy happened the operators were too shocked to unveil any details to the public. However, things did not get clearer with time. Deputy Director at the Russian Institute for Nuclear Engineering, Chernobyl clean-up worker Igor Ostretsov commented on the situation in an interview with the VOR…

"The Fukushima disaster has proved that nuclear industry should be controlled only by the state and not by private companies. The outcome of this tragedy has turned even worse than it was in Chernobyl. Graphite which was part of the reactor`s core, burnt out and vanished in the atmosphere. But at Fukushima the reactor`s core melted."

 Meanwhile, nuclear safety will be high on agenda at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, on 26-27 May. According to the Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich, the G8 leaders won`t come up with a separate declaration on the Fukushima disaster but will discuss the issue in every detail.

I'd be interested to hear what is being said by G8 members about Fukushima, although that will never happen.  How far will their "official statement" go?

Japan slammed as new leak found at stricken nuke plant

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday detailed a new leak of radioactive water as Greenpeace slammed the country's “inadequate response” to a growing threat to sea water and health.
And in an embarrassing reversal, Tokyo Electric Power officials changed a key element of an account of the early response to the crisis it had given on Saturday as part of a government investigation into the accident.

Tokyo Electric said up to 57 tons of highly contaminated water had leaked from a storage facility into a trench. It vowed to step up monitoring of groundwater.

The disclosure raises the stakes in a race to complete by next month a system to decontaminate a massive pool of radioactive water at the site that critics see as a growing risk to both the Pacific and groundwater.
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Environmental group Greenpeace said seaweed had been found with radiation levels 60 times higher than official limits, raising concerns about risks from contaminated sea water more than two months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was hit by an earthquake and tsunami.


“Our data show that significant amounts of contamination continue to spread over great distances from the Fukushima nuclear plant,” a statement quoted Greenpeace radiation expert Jan Vande Putte as saying.
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“The concentration of radioactive iodine we found in seaweed is particularly concerning, as it tells us how far contamination is spreading along the coast, and because several species of seaweed are widely eaten in Japan,” Vande Putte said.

One more example of how regional events can influence the global economy:  Toyota, Honda global output halved after quake  Also:  Japan disaster's impact reaches far beyond slow-down in auto exports


Damage from the disaster at Japanese chemical plants that produce raw materials for the electronics components, although modest in itself, has had some of the most severe impacts in history on the global electronics industry.

Nuclear Super Typhoon? Massive storm may approach Fukushima this weekend — Current gusts of 195 mph  Happy Memorial Day, everyone!

A very special election: Dems win NY-26

“Kathleen Courtney Hochul, the Erie County clerk and longtime Democratic figure who defied political experts who had given her little chance of success, ground out a stunning and surprisingly comfortable victory Tuesday in the special election for the House seat in the predominantly Republican 26th Congressional District,” the Buffalo News says. “The results marked a stunning defeat for the GOP in a contest that garnered intense national attention as the first competitive race following the Republican takeover of the House in last November's elections.” She said in her victory speech: "We had the issues on our side. We can balance the budget the right way and not on the backs of our seniors.”

Republicans frequently accuse Democrats of thinking too much in the abstract, or of dreaming if they think their proposals would actually work.  Republicans are guilty of a variant of this line of thinking:  Budget cutting in the abstract; not thinking of the emotional impact those cuts to Medicare would have, and how those genuinely dependent on such programs might react to this proposition.

Republicans seem genuinely Shocked that the public(especially the voting public) would freak out over them wanting to destroy Medicare!  And yes, to privatize Medicare with a voucher system will dilute each person's purchasing power(as profit considerations are ALWAYS considered), destroying the system on a spectacular, yet individual basis.  They really had no idea that people might get really angry when Wall Street financial thieves are reaping record profits, or that the oil industry gets massive subsidies and faces no consequences for the cataclysmic fuck ups they incur, while they, their children, or their parents/grandparents have to pay even more for services they already paid for!  Or that that program might be dismantled by people who'll never have to worry about their health care ever again!

They really thought things were cool..  They are so entitled, so out of touch with a majority of those depend upon for support, this was bound to happen, sooner or later.  They are so dependent on monies from the aforementioned corrupt and bloated entities, eliminating subsides for them isn't even a consideration.  By wanting to gut Medicare and leave Oil and Wall Street intact, Republicans have shown whose allegiance they serve. This is a big deal for both parties. 

And this will Not Go Away. 

Music For The Moment(s)..

I feel the need for music.  Thanks for indulging me. 

The Flaming Lips - "All We Have Is Now."

 Radiohead - "Lotus Flower."

Flying Lotus - "MmmHmm."

Timmy Thomas - "Why Can't We Live Together?"

 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round."
Best Headphone Song Ever.  Maybe Best Song Ever.  Bonus:  Progressively engaging, trippy-ass video. 

Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks."

Sleigh Bells - "Riot Rhythm."

The Tension Is As Palpable As The Humidity..

This is some serious/intense bullshit.  Branson remains, so far, "unscathed," but these tornadic systems are CHARGED with electricity, the likes of which I've never experienced.  And they are relentless.  Denning, Arkansas was hit by mile-wide tornado earlier this evening.  It's probably gone. 

I can't imagine having to deal with damage caused by these storms.  It's like a gigantic circular saw blade boring into the earth.  The destruction is so..  Thorough..  So complete.  I can't imagine what these people are feeling right now.

If you live in the four state region, the implications of this particular recurring, savage system have now become very, very real..  There is no real safe place, and suddenly, life holds no guarantees.  Also, the horror of another Joplin-style catastrophe becomes more mockingly random, as total destruction can now come clothed as a rain wrapped tornado within a storm system that's really not all that impressive.  Not that that couldn't have happened before, but it never did.  Now it has.

This is not normal weather, and these are not normal times.  Everything is changing, or is about to change.. 

This is but one manifestation of that change..

Japan Updates: May 24, 2011

 Tepco Confirms Meltdown of Reactors  The truth, after a 70 day delay.  What will they admit next?

Tokyo Electric Power Co. confirmed a meltdown of fuel rods in two more reactors at its Fukushima nuclear plant, which has been emitting radiation since an earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and cooling systems.

Fuel rods in the No. 3 unit started melting on March 13 and those in the No. 2 reactor on March 14, Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman at the company known as Tepco, told reporters in Tokyo today. The fuel dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel after melting although the damage to the vessel is “limited,” he said.
Tepco raised the possibility of more extensive damage than assumed at the reactors when it announced last week, more than two months after the disaster, that fuel rods in the No. 1 reactor had melted within 16 hours of the quake on March 11. Tepco’s analysis is catching up with U.S. assessments in early days of the crisis that indicated damage to the station was more severe than Japan officials suggested.
The meltdown of the cores is the “greatest at the No. 1 reactor, followed by the No. 3 unit and then No. 2,” Matsumoto said. The analysis of the damage became possible “after data from the central control room was retrieved,” he said.

UN atomic watchdog experts arrive in Japan  They are JUST NOW arriving?  This can't be right, can it?

A team of specialists from the UN atomic watchdog arrived in Japan on Monday to join other international experts investigating Japan's nuclear crisis.

A six-strong delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) flew to Tokyo's Narita airport from Vienna in preparation for a fact-finding mission from May 24 to June 2.
In all, a 20-member mission will compile a report on the emergency to be presented to IAEA member states next month at a ministerial-level conference in Vienna.
Tokyo has said the IAEA team is likely to visit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11 and has leaked high levels of radiation into the environment.
But Jim Lyons, director of the IAEA's division of nuclear installation safety, said the itinerary was not finalised.
"We are going to be mostly in Tokyo but I think we're going to try to visit the site," Lyons told reporters ahead of their departure from Vienna. "That's the plan."

The next time a plane crashes, a plane carrying, say, six nuclear reactors worth of fuel and spent fuel, imagine the FAA showing up 72 days after the crash, not do anything, as this is a "fact finding mission," state that it's "likely" they'll visit the crash site, and the only action taken will be a presentation at a ministerial level conference.  You think they'd get away with it?

The IAEA is less a "watchdog," and more of a "watchin' dog," as in "He just sits there, watchin' it happen.."

The Implications of the Fukushima Accident on the World's Operating Reactors  Video from Arnie Gundersen at Fairewinds.com via Rense.

Japan reports more radiation leakage

At least 250 tons of radioactive water spilled into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials said.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the radiated water leaked for 41 hours beginning May 10 from the No. 3 reactor at the site, where four of six reactors were damaged in the magnitude-9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami, Kyodo News reported.

Nuclear plant workers suffer internal radiation exposure after visiting Fukushima  The Mainichi Daily News, via Rense.  Excerpts:

The government has discovered thousands of cases of workers at nuclear power plants outside Fukushima Prefecture suffering from internal exposure to radiation after they visited the prefecture, the head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

Most of the workers who had internal exposure to radiation visited Fukushima after the nuclear crisis broke out following the March 11 quake and tsunami, and apparently inhaled radioactive substances scattered by hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
The revelation has prompted local municipalities in Fukushima to consider checking residents' internal exposure to radiation.
Nobuaki Terasaka, head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told the House of Representatives Budget Committee on May 16 that there were a total of 4,956 cases of workers suffering from internal exposure to radiation at nuclear power plants in the country excluding the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, and 4,766 of them involved workers originally from Fukushima who had visited the prefecture after the nuclear crisis. Terasaka revealed the data in his response to a question from Mito Kakizawa, a lawmaker from Your Party.

This One's Called "Grimsvotn"

Volcano erupts in Iceland, spurs quakes  MSNBC.  Excerpts:

Iceland's Meteorological Office confirmed that an eruption had begun at the Grimsvotn volcano, accompanied by a series of small earthquakes. Smoke could be seen rising nearly seven miles from the volcano, which lies under the uninhabited Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland.

A no fly zone has been designated for 120 nautical miles (220 kilometers) in all directions from the eruption. Isavia, the company that operates and develops all airport facilities and air navigation services in Iceland, described this as standard procedure around eruptions.

Pakistani Naval Base Attacked: Pretty Sure This Can't Be Good

Four dead in PNS Mehran attack: news agency

KARACHI: Four people were killed in an armed attack Sunday by terrorists on PNS Mehran, a heavily guarded base of Pakistan Navy, located along Sharea Faisal, according to a foreign news agency.
TV images showed flames rising in the air from PNS Mehran where, according to sources, terrorists blew up a US made P-3C Orion plane of Pakistan Navy standing at the hangar.
According to military and intelligence officials, about 10-12 terrorists laced with hand grenades and sophisticated weapons entered PNS Mehran through PAF Musuem.

Sources said the commandoes have surrounded the assailants.
The attack has occurred at a facility of Pakistan Navy which is situated in a high security zone of the city and where no common citizen is allowed to enter.

I wonder where the Taliban got ahold of "sophisticated weapons?"  That's really curious..

Missouri Bleeds Tonight. Joplin Will Never Be The Same..

The scope of this disaster will become more clear in the coming days.  All the local real time coverage alluded to the fact no one saw the tornado coming, as it was wrapped in rain.  It hit Sunday at 6 p.m..  No one was expecting it.  I've worked in radio, through the years, over seven years, and have seen, on radar, some monster storms.  This one was, by far, not the biggest or worst looking I've ever seen.  This tornado was all just a gigantic, unexpected disaster.  And the destruction is horrible.

Mike Bettes of the Weather Channel was visibly affected by the tornado's wake.  Bettes' team was following this storm and came upon the damage left (No audio for this video..)after it had passed.  His behavior upon arrival, looking for survivors before reporting from the scene, was exemplary.  Thank you Mike Bettes for behaving like a decent human being when confronted with crisis.  Your good hearted response was touching. 

So much more soon, I'm sure..

Japan Updates: May 23, 2011

The Art of Full Meltdown: Fukushima Daiichi  The Daily Kos.  Check out the art and photos created in Fukushima's wake.  Serious, life-or-death, mortal combat with supervillainous entities..  A war fought by very few, for very many.  The most most people can do is hope. And make some mythos in the process..

Sealed off and screened for radiation: Tsunami survivors make emotional visit to ghost-town homes engulfed by Japan's nuclear meltdown  From The Daily Mail.

Seismic Damage Information (the 146th Release)

TEPCO Releases Gamma Camera Photos of Reactor 1 

A is For Atom Foretold Fukushima Core Melt  From Asian Week.  Excerpts:\
 
Scientists say that something the size of a submarine could actually reliably hold in the worst possible disaster, but once scaled up to the size of Fukushima, if they could not be kept full of water, the fuel would melt, and eat through the container resulting in the original “China Syndrome”. Of course people neglect that the real bad thing that happens when it melts down is that it produces all sorts of nasty fission products that contaminate rainwater, fish, seaweek, milk and vegetables all over the local region and detectable all over the freaking planet. Nobody had seen buildings reduced to skeletons of rubble by mere hydrogen explosions, or figured on the possibility of prompt critical explosion which seem a better explanation of the unit 3 wreckage.
 
Agony for Japan livestock farmers in N-crisis  From Zee News.  Excerpts:
 
Fukushima City (Japan): As more people are forced to leave their homes around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, anger is growing in a farming community forced to make the agonising decision whether to slaughter livestock or face ruin.

The desperate lowing of starving cattle echoes out across the valleys surrounding Katsurao -- the only noise breaking an unearthly silence which envelopes the hamlet.
No one is seen during daylight except a few farmers making the difficult and dangerous journey back to their land to feed cows, pigs and chickens.
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More than 10,000 cows -- prized for their marbled beef and rich milk -- have already been left behind in the scramble to escape Fukushima prefecture, many of them locked in sheds where they starved to death, farmers have said.
As the no-go zone spreads, ever more farmers are being forced to make agonising decisions over whether to move their livestock to safe areas and incur huge costs, slaughter their animals or -- perhaps the most unacceptable option -- leave them to their fate.
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"That cow, over there, will die in a few days as it cannot come and eat with the others," said Shinji Sakuma, pointing to one of his 70 milk cows that was too weak to stand by itself.

"I am frustrated," said the overwrought 55-year-old at the Sakuma
"Our cows have done nothing wrong, haven't they?" he said, wiping away tears of anger and frustration..

Japan Updates: May 22, 2011

Erratic information fuels mistrust of TEPCO

Tokyo Electric Power's belated admission that damage to crippled reactors at its nuclear plant is worse than it first thought has fuelled suspicion it withheld bad news in the first days of Japan's crisis.

A series of revisions to earlier assessments about damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have emerged since the utility began sending workers into reactor buildings for the first time.
More than two months after the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl was triggered, TEPCO last week admitted fuel rods inside reactor cores melted down in the first few hours after the March 11 tsunami disabled cooling systems.
It was a sharp reversal of earlier assessments from both TEPCO and the government that meltdown was unlikely, reactors were relatively stable and dangerous radiation leaks had been largely contained.

Wen reaches out to Japan  China Daily.  Excerpts:

China is ready to extend more aid to Japan in its disaster relief endeavor, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said when he toured Japan's most severely hit disaster region on Saturday.

In a concrete move of encouragement, Wen announced that China is ready to allow import of more agricultural and other products from Japan despite fears of contamination from the nuclear crisis in the country.
Wen made the remarks while making his first stop in the tsunami-flattened Natori City in Miyagi Prefecture at Saturday noon after landing in Sendai Airport just 15 minutes earlier.

Radioactive Sewage Sludge and Slag in Tokyo  Ex-SKF via Rense.  Excerpts:

It was big news when the radioactive sewage sludge and slag were found in Fukushima Prefecture earlier this month..

And it is almost no news when the highly radioactive (170,000 becquerels per kilogram) sewage slag was found in TOKYO, and the slag's been already sold as construction materials.

Here's a report from a week ago by Nippon Television (3;48PM JST 5/13/2011):

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan government, 170,000 becquerels per kilogram radiation was detected in the sewage slag sample taken on March 25 at Tobu Sludge Plant, a sewage treatment facility in Koto-ku. The samples taken at two additional facilities also showed radiation over 100,000 becquerels per kilogram. The slag has already been recycled into cement and other construction materials.

And the highly radioactive sludge in Fukushima is to be burned. That's just great. According to Sankei News, the national government will allow the radioactive sludge and slag with low radiation (few thousands becquerels per kilogram) to be used as cement materials, as before, as long as the radioactive materials are diluted enough to the level that has no immediate effect on health. Between 10,000 becquerels/kg and 100,000 becquerels/kg, they should be put in a temporary storage. The government guideline doesn't say what will happen when the temporary storage becomes full.

Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University: "No One Knows How Fukushima Could Be Wound Down" As the Corium May Be Melting Through the Foundation  Ex-SKF via Rense.  Encapsulation:

We're in the uncharted territory that we enter for the first time ever since the human race started to use nuclear power.

1000 Millisieverts/Hr Debris Outside Reactor 3 at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant

1000 millisieverts is 1 sievert.

That's a lot.