Two walls bulging at "tilting" Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 reactor building

The New York Times has reported that the Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted that two of the walls at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 are bulging, while the entire reactor building itself is tilting. Fears are mounting that a large earthquake could collapse the building, or its high-level radioactive waste storage pool containing 1,331 irradiated nuclear fuel assemblies. Without cooling water, the high-level radioactive waste could quickly catch fire, emitting catastrophic amounts of deadly radioactivity directly into the environment. Despite downplaying and even denying the potential for catastrophe, Tepco has accelerated its plans to remove the irradiated nuclear fuel from the vulnerable pool by later this year.