Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:36 am by roccman
Top find mp25!
TOKYO, Japan — Molten fuel inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant came within centimeters of breaching its steel outer casing, the plant's operator said, in another indication that the accident was more serious than first thought.
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said this week that it believed most or all of the fuel inside reactor No. 1 had melted in the immediate aftermath of the March 11 tsunami, which disabled back-up power supplies to cooling systems and triggered the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Citing data acquired from a new simulation of the accident, Tepco said the fuel may have breached its inner containment vessel and bored through most of the concrete floor of the outer containment vessel — the reactor's last layer of protection before its steel outer casing.
In a worst-case scenario, the utility said the fuel had penetrated the concrete floor by up to 65 centimeters (26 inches), just 37 centimeters (15 inches) from the outer steel wall.
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It said, however, that the fuel was being cooled by water injected into the reactor, adding that the erosion of the concrete had stopped.
So dumping crap loads of water has cooled the fuel?
Ummm---9 months ago they were dumping crap loads of water on it...and it STILL melted through the steel/concrete...
gubbermints never lie (then slaughter) their populations...I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
TS Eliot
