TEPCO admitted Wednesday that nuclear fuel in reactor No. 1 could be melting

Published: April 20th, 2011 at 2:35 pm ET
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Tokyo Electric admits fuel could be melting at Fukushima nuke plant, Kyodo, April 21, 2011 at 2:20 pm EDT:

An official at Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, admitted Wednesday that fuel of the plant’s No. 1 reactor could be melting.

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Chart published by Japan’s Ministry of Education at http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/

See also: 

April 9: Radiation skyrockets to 100 Sv/hr at Fukushima reactor No. 1, along with sudden rise in temperature immediately after 7.4 quake (CHART)

April 13: Extreme spike in I-131, Cs-137 levels 100 miles from Fukushima after radiation skyrocketed off the chart at No. 1 reactor following recent quake (CHARTS)

Published: April 20th, 2011 at 2:35 pm ET
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16 comments to TEPCO admitted Wednesday that nuclear fuel in reactor No. 1 could be melting

  • Deetu 3

    Now they’re using robots to find “bodies” underwater,apparently.
    You don’t s’pose they might have a quick look around for any mox fuel rods while they’re down there do ya?

    http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110420004933.htm

  • xdrfox

    Any bodies underwater would have surfaced weeks ago ! Unless trapped, they would not looked for trapped bodies with all else that is more pressing !
    Something is raising the levels of contaminates it the waters and they must find how much and if possible for removal !
    Blown into water during explosions !

  • Deetu 3

    exactly right dr. I was wondering when they would have to face the task of actually retrieving those rods from the ocean.

    • xdrfox

      If they find areas of tide.current streams that are laced with plutonium or their contaminates, they probably have a vacuum devise on board with huge lead sealed tanks or will bring machines in to suck the layer off the seabed where they find so as to remove as much as possible. This should and must be done to have any clean water heading out of the area to Korea and China and other immediate countries !
      It is the right thing to do !

  • Deetu 3

    US to move Marines from Okinawa(to Guam)…just 8,000 of them of course,so not really a hasty retreat….yet.

    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20_13.html

  • xdrfox

    They may decide to bring in Dredgers ships or On Shore ones with over water pluming !!

    • Deetu 3

      Of course,they will have to be choosy over exactly which ships/offshore equip. they use since these will become contaminated also……ice nine…

      • xdrfox

        @ Deetu 3

        There are quit a few older ones out there that could be decommissioned after use.
        I help to build one back in 93 and it was sent to Savannah Ga. after completion, Our Company got a million dollar bonus for finishing it early. Could move 60,000 cu.ft. per.sec. from bottom to ships holding tank.

  • Jack

    xdrfox,
    it is about like the ridiculous Superfund tangle of legal webs.
    Yay! We “cleaned up” some toxic pit, here in the USA,
    which means we packed up and canned up and neutralized
    chemically, and MOVED the worst stuff to ANOTHER Location.
    Yay!
    Who is going to Process, transport, utilize or neutralize all this
    stuff?…and under politically correct scrutiny from do-nothing
    officious “authorities”, ordering prisoners and retarded soldiers into
    the blazing deadly Rads for the last days of their lives?
    “…So I’m packin’ my bags
    for the Misty Mountains…
    Over the Hills, where the Spirits Fly-y-yy”

    • xdrfox

      @ Jack
      Yes I thought about that, but it would be in the waters ! Under some mountain would be better then fouling the fish and starvation for billions !

  • Regulus

    You there!
    You have too much radiation to leave your district.

  • Regulus

    Unmanned drones hidden in chemtrail skies
    Not in a million years

  • Regulus

    Sheeple=Doom Fodder

  • steve the jew

    is the Hukushima plant now in crisis, too?