Tepco Says Fuel in 2 Fukushima Reactors May Also Have Melted

[meow mix]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/05/16/bloomberg1376-LL9QQB6KLVR501-0714EGPHSFFHFL4NRK95N4DIE8.DTL



May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel in other reactors at its damaged nuclear plant may have melted, after confirming rods in the No. 1 unit had fallen from their assembly, potentially delaying plans to resolve the crisis.

"The findings at the No. 1 reactor indicate the likelihood that the water level readings in the other reactors aren't accurate," Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility known as Tepco, said at a news conference today. "It could be that a meltdown similar to that in the No. 1 reactor has occurred."

Tepco has been struggling to cool reactors and stop radiation leaks to resolve the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. The discovery that fuels rods had melted within 16 hours of power being knocked out means it's unlikely Tepco can meet its timetable for containing the leaks, a nuclear engineering professor said.

[Cetacea]

1. The more severe the problem grows, the less the story is covered

[malaise]

2. And even severe is an understatement

This is a catastrophe

[SpiralHawk]

3. Seems it will get worse

and that RepubliCorp Media, Inc. -- for whatever corrupt reason -- will not deliver the truth. As usual.

[AndyTiedye]

5. They Want to Pretend that Nuclear Power is "Safe"

"This must be some new definition of "safe", with which I have not previously been acquainted." Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

But we also see the sudden urgency to repeal or overturn HCR, and to gut Medicare and Medicaid, regardless of the political risk.
They know what the real numbers are, and they know what all that fallout will do to us.
The 'Piggies don't want to be stuck with all those medical bills.

[jpak]

4. We gave been told that is Teh Impossibles and everything is OK

yup