Fukushima - they are planning to move fuel rods from the hottest spent storage pool in Nov. (scary)

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40. Hardly a thing right in there.

The building lost it's top two floors to an explosion and fire

Nope. It lost the non-structural outer shell of the upper two floors. The structural members were intentionally removed months later to make room for the fuel-removal equipment.

The fuel pool must have lost its cooling waters after 3/11, either from leaks or boiling away what little water was left, as the pumps could not replace or circulate the cooling water.

Nope. You've been corrected on this multiple times over the last couple years. In the initial days of the accident it was worried that there might be a leak... but that has long-since been dismissed as an error. The pool was never dry.

The feeling is that since the rods in the pool already overheated, the rods may have disintegrated and not be intact, as when placed.

Nope. There's no longer a valid concern that the fuel overheated or that the rods "disintegrated". They've had a clear view into that pool for over two years and the fuel is undamaged apart from debris falling into the pool.

If that is true, then any movement may lead to another catastrophic sequence of events.

Nope. The margin of safety in a fuel pools is many MANY times larger than the worst scenario of dropping a fuel bundle. You could drop one outside of the pool and that would be a mess for the people who had to clean it up... but there is no catasrophy scenario for unit 4 apart from the collapse of the building itself (which was never really in danger).

we do live in interesting times, where actions half a world away could still result in injury to you and your loved ones.

Only the risk that irrational fears might drive you over the edge. Fukushima was never a big risk to those hald a world away... and it certainly ceased to be even that much quite some time back.

Indeed, the webcam from the plant showed a foggy atmosphere at 3 in the afternoon JST. Something is overheating there now.

Riiight... because "foggy atmosphere" can only be caused by something that endangers the entire globe. See my irrational fear comment above.