Families and sporting companies have sent rods and golf clubs, which are passed down from one unit to the next.
American pacemaker suppliers have become lightning rods for criticism in Japan for charging prices roughly double those back home.
Vedanta (which did not respond to queries for comments) and its founder Anil Agarwal have been lightning rods in India and abroad.
In the week following the tsunami, it became clear that the pond was running dry, meaning that fuel rods would have heated up.
One soldier with a brain injury says tying flies, building fly rods and casting have helped him with his motor skills.
The Japanese government said Monday that the fuel rods in one reactor have fused together in a partial meltdown.
But experts say the overheated fuel rods are likely to have suffered extensive damage, and there is a complication for seemingly every advance.
Cooling problems have resulted in damage to radioactive fuel rods, hydrogen gas explosions, fires and radiation releases.
But the dry casks holding spent fuel rods across the United States have not evolved along with their increasingly radioactive contents.
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It seems too impossible to believe, but according to reports from CNN, Reuters and the AP tonight, the last workers at the Fukushima-Daiichi reactors have been withdrawn from the scene, halting efforts to continue cooling partially melted fuel rods with ocean water.
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That could have led to a loss of water and eventually to the exposure of the spent fuel rods to air, releasing radiation.
"You have the rockabilly artists who are essentially having a great deal of fun and basically swapping out hot rods for spacecraft, " says Bill Geerhart, who runs a Web site and the Atomic Platters record label, both devoted to Cold War music.
If the U.S. finds a place for its nuclear waste to go, some fuel assemblies will have to be removed from casks and transferred to transportation packs, a dangerous enough task without the prospect of fuel rods ruptured or crumbling.
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