Hello Australia!! - A potential breakthrough in Fukushima - The Minneapolis police chief quits in the wake of Justine Damond's killing - One of Hollywood's most familiar faces is gone - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

More than six years after the triple melt-through at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says it may have found parts of one of the reactor cores.  TEPCO released images of an orange and black gunk that hardened beneath the lethally radioactive chamber:
TEPCO
TEPCO
"Never before have we taken such clear pictures of what could be melted fuel," said TEPCO's Takahiro Kimoto.  Nothing on earth could survive long enough to get a photo of it, so the company on 19 July sent in a Toshiba-designed submarine robot to explore the flooded container building.  Until now, no one actually knew where the molten cores went after the 2011 nuclear disaster, one of the worst if not the worst nuclear disaster in human history.  It is hoped this represents a major step in TEPCO's plans to clean up the radioactive mess, commencing in 2021.

It seems ridiculous as global warming melts Alpine glaciers melt and cleaves big chunks of Antarctica, but General Motors appears to be planning to kill off the Chevy Volt electric hybrid car, sold here as the Holden Volt.  With artificially low gas prices, idiot consumers are buying more SUVs and fewer cars - not just in stupid America, but around the world.  Some big GM cars are on the chopping block, but so is the gas-sipping subcompact Sonic.  There are hopes the Volt will be replaced with a plug-in hybrid crossover vehicle.  But this comes as more forward thinking carmakers like Volvo are planning to phase out gas engines beginning in 2019, and France will ban gas-powered vehicles from 2040.

The 15 July police killing of Sydneysider Justine Ruszczyk Damond has cost the job of the Minneapolis, Minnesota police chief, and it may claim the mayor as well.  Chief Janee Harteau resigned under heavy criticism for failing to cut her vacation short and waiting nearly five days to respond to the shooting of Ms. Damond by officer Mohamed Noor.  Protesters on Friday night called for the resignation of Mayor Betsy Hodges, who walked out of a public event until community activists could be removed.  There's a growing sense that area police are poorly trained and have little regard for human life:  Officer Noor has reportedly refused to be interviewed by investigators while prosecutors in recent weeks couldn't convict two cops involved in two other police shooting of innocent men.

Actor John Heard is dead at age 72.  The star of "Home Alone" and featured player in about five billion other movies and TV shows was found dead in a Palo Alto, California hotel room where he was recuperating from back surgery performed at Stanford University Hospital.  Durable and incredibly versatile, Mr. Heard appeared in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s ("Cat People", "After Hours") and 1990s, from comedic blockbusters, ("Home Alone", "Big"), art house fare ("The Milagro Beanfield War", "A Trip to Bountiful"), delightful crap ("C.H.U.D.", "Sharknado"), and dozens of others.  Basically, if you don't recognize John Heard you've never been to the movies.

Fresh out of hospital, Poland's Lech Walesa has joined anti-government protesters against the right-wing ruling party's plans to put the Supreme Court under its control.  Walesa spoke to the crowd in Gdansk, his home city and where he led strikes in the 1980s against the Soviet-backed regime that eventually toppled the government and ushered in democracy.  But that young democracy is now in tatters as RWNJ ruling party has chipped away at institutions to consolidate its power.