Is the world in serious trouble?   One thing which has become abundantly clear through the fall-out from the Fukushima nuclear emergency is - that if you want the truth - you're going to have to dig for it. Conflicting and contradictory statements from TEPCO, IAEA, and Japanese authorities have allowed a placatory dust cloud to fall upon the world's population. 'It's bad but they're dealing with it and slowly winning the battle' appears to be the general opinion.

But if we're not truthfully informed of what is going on then how can we be certain of anything? How can we even trust that those of us not in the immediate vicinity are not in danger? The comparison which assists most is with that of Chernobyl. Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident to date, led to the evacuation of tens of thousands from the immediate vicinity, the radioactive polluting of large swathes of Europe, and an unknown number of deaths. This week Japanese authorities raised the crisis level at Fukushima to 7 - the same level as Chernobyl 25 years ago. What most of us don't realise is that Chernobyl was far from 'over' when the concrete was poured in and the hysterical headlines died down. As Ex President Mikhail Gorbachev and others have now acknowledged - 'Europe was only hours away from being uninhabitable, major cities were only hours from being blown to pieces as the biggest explosion in Earth's history threatened to take place.' It has been revealed that over HALF A MILLION men and women spent 7 months in what has become dubbed 'The Battle of Chernobyl' as they struggled to regain control of the plant and prevent the landscape of the planet changing forever. The full and true story of what happened at Chernobyl and the parallels to draw with Fukushima can be seen in the engrossing 'must see' 90 minute video below. Fukushima is far from over...for all of us.