Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-08 23:22.
This really isn't new news. They've been saying that there were holes burned in the bottom for some time now. Which is where they believe the water was leaking out of. That and any plumbing that got damaged by the explosions. So, if three were holes burned through the bottom, I don't know why a "melt-through" would be considered any different.
As far as another explosion goes, they have been keeping water on it from the beginning. If it hasn't exploded yet, it's not likely to now.
Japan set to report nuclear 'melt-throughs' to IAEA
TOKYO -- Japan will for the first time report to the U.N. nuclear watchdog that fuel in its crippled Fukushima plant may have melted through the bottoms of three reactor core vessels, a news report said Tuesday.
The Yomiuri Shimbun daily report came a day after Japan more than doubled its estimate of the radiation released into the air from the plant in about the first week after it was hit by the March 11 seabed quake and tsunami.
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) now says it believes 770,000 terabecquerels escaped into the atmosphere in the first six days — compared to its earlier estimate of 370,000 terabecquerels.
Almost three months after the March 11 disaster, Japan is preparing a report to be submitted this month to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which sent its own multinational fact-finding team to Japan recently.
Japan's government plans to tell the IAEA that fuel is assumed to have melted down and through the reactor pressure vessels of units 1, 2 and 3 and into their outer steel containment vessels, said the Yomiuri.
Tokyo will also pledge to thoroughly reform its nuclear safety systems, including by separating the watchdog NISA from the ministry of economy, trade and industry, which promotes nuclear power, the Yomiuri said.
The news came as a 10-member expert panel independent of the nuclear industry met for the first time to look into the causes of the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl, in Ukraine, a quarter-century ago.
Panel leader Yotaro Hatamura, a Tokyo University professor emeritus on human error, said at the meeting that “nuclear power has higher energy density and is dangerous. It was a mistake to consider it safe.”
NISA's revised radiation figure released on Monday is likely to fuel criticism of the initially slow and vague flow of information from the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company. The new estimate is closer to that of Japan's independent Nuclear Safety Commission which had initially estimated a release at 630,000 terabecquerels in the first month after the tsunami knocked out reactor cooling systems.
Their official report to the IAEA is a lot like the official announcement that the country is in a recession. Everyone is already painfully aware of that fact by then.
If this turns out to be
If this turns out to be true, is another explosion possible?
At this point, not likely
This really isn't new news. They've been saying that there were holes burned in the bottom for some time now. Which is where they believe the water was leaking out of. That and any plumbing that got damaged by the explosions. So, if three were holes burned through the bottom, I don't know why a "melt-through" would be considered any different.
As far as another explosion goes, they have been keeping water on it from the beginning. If it hasn't exploded yet, it's not likely to now.
News to me maybe not u .
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/japan/2011/06/08/305506/Japan-set.htm
Japan set to report nuclear 'melt-throughs' to IAEA
TOKYO -- Japan will for the first time report to the U.N. nuclear watchdog that fuel in its crippled Fukushima plant may have melted through the bottoms of three reactor core vessels, a news report said Tuesday.
The Yomiuri Shimbun daily report came a day after Japan more than doubled its estimate of the radiation released into the air from the plant in about the first week after it was hit by the March 11 seabed quake and tsunami.
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) now says it believes 770,000 terabecquerels escaped into the atmosphere in the first six days — compared to its earlier estimate of 370,000 terabecquerels.
Almost three months after the March 11 disaster, Japan is preparing a report to be submitted this month to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which sent its own multinational fact-finding team to Japan recently.
Japan's government plans to tell the IAEA that fuel is assumed to have melted down and through the reactor pressure vessels of units 1, 2 and 3 and into their outer steel containment vessels, said the Yomiuri.
Tokyo will also pledge to thoroughly reform its nuclear safety systems, including by separating the watchdog NISA from the ministry of economy, trade and industry, which promotes nuclear power, the Yomiuri said.
The news came as a 10-member expert panel independent of the nuclear industry met for the first time to look into the causes of the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl, in Ukraine, a quarter-century ago.
Panel leader Yotaro Hatamura, a Tokyo University professor emeritus on human error, said at the meeting that “nuclear power has higher energy density and is dangerous. It was a mistake to consider it safe.”
NISA's revised radiation figure released on Monday is likely to fuel criticism of the initially slow and vague flow of information from the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company. The new estimate is closer to that of Japan's independent Nuclear Safety Commission which had initially estimated a release at 630,000 terabecquerels in the first month after the tsunami knocked out reactor cooling systems.
Fukushima reactor has a hole, leading to leakage
They began talking about holes a month ago. And if there's a hole, it was due to fuel melting through.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/12/us-japan-nuclear-reactor-idUST...
Their official report to the IAEA is a lot like the official announcement that the country is in a recession. Everyone is already painfully aware of that fact by then.
Thanks for replying, so many
Thanks for replying, so many things to sort out in the news these days....