Nuclear rods melting inside three Fukushima reactors, Japan admits

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Nuclear rods melting inside three Fukushima reactors, Japan admits

JAPAN’S NUCLEAR AUTHORITIES say they believe that three reactors at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant are now melting.

The country’s chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said that although staff at the nuclear facility – where two containment buildings have been destroyed by hydrogen explosions – were unable to check for certain, it was “highly likely” that the nuclear cores at reactors, 1 2 and 3 at Fukushima I nuclear station had begun to melt.

Reuters had earlier reported that the cooling mixture of seawater and boron in the number 2 reactor had totally evaporated, with the reactor’s nuclear rods therefore totally exposed for a significant period of time.

The plant operator TEPCO had earlier said it couldn’t rule out the possibility of a nuclear meltdown in the reactor – and had admitted that a partial meltdown could already be underway.

ttp://www.thejournal.ie/nuclear-rods-melting-inside-three-fukushima-reactors-japan-admits-2011-03/

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1. Shit

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2. +1

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3. More:

"Tepco reports explosions at # 1 power plant....a very serious situation....pressure is dropping...means cracks have formed, radiation could have leaked out, ....explosion might have been released to the outside from the container..
that is why operators have been evacuated, because the container vessel is the last line of defense..this problem may spread and become worse. This could be the worse case scenario for nuclear power plants in Japan."
" This means they are getting close to being unable to contain the radiation from ( spreading to) the outside"

!fuel rods may have began melting"

All of this just now on Japan tv
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

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