Japan TV ‘News Flash’: Officials fear melted reactor fuel is now exposed at Fukushima — Tepco: We don’t know at this point if fuel is uncovered — Large drop in water level — Experts ‘struggling’ to find condition of nuclear cores, nothing is known for all 3 reactors (VIDEO)
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NHK WORLD, June 10, 2014: TEPCO officials are struggling to find [...] the condition of the melted fuel [...] Officials believe that at reactor number 2, water is leaking [...] at the bottom of the containment vessel, but do not know exactly from where. [At] reactors 1 and 3, the utility has found the sources of some leaks, but suspects there are other breaches [...] Nothing is known about the condition of the melted fuel in all 3 reactors. TEPCO is considering various forms of surveys, including a plan to send a camera-mounted robot [...]
Kyodo News, June 9, 2014: TEPCO confirms water level of Fukushima No. 2 reactor container [...] A TEPCO official [said] the detailed condition of the melted fuel remains unknown.
NHK Transcript, June 9, 2014:
- Officials at Tepco are facing another setback.
- They don’t know whether [the water] even covers all of the nuclear fuel.
- Officials don’t know about the condition of the melted fuel.
- Officials believe the water level at another reactor is 10 times deeper.
- Teruaki Kobayashi, Tepco official: “We cannot tell at this point if the fuel is entirely submerged or if part of it’s above the water.”
- They believe it’s flowing through the chamber then out of the reactor building.
Published: June 10th, 2014 at 2:55 am ET
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