Still image from a May 22 drone flyover
Japan may have lost race to save nuclear reactor , Guardian.co.uk, March 29th.
...As a result, we estimate that "regarding the Unit 1, nuclear fuel pellets
have melted, falling to the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel at a
relatively early stage after the tsunami reached the station."
Was Fukushima a China Syndrome?
by EBEN HARRELL
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 2:00 pm
... a molten nuclear reactor core could could fission its way through its containment vessel, melt through the basement ...down into the earth ...enter the soil and water table and cause huge contamination in the crops and drinking water.... And [this] might just have happened at Fukushima.
Last week... Tepco... made an alarming discovery: virtually all the fuel in the core had melted down.... [and was] either at the bottom of the pressure vessel, or in the basement below or possibly even outside the containment building. Engineers don't know for sure....
Many experts say a full-blown China syndrome is unlikely...
But assuming a worst case scenario hasn't occurred...
Nuclear fuel generates power for about six years.
Be seeing you.