Asahi: Core meltdowns "may have" occurred in #2 and #3 admitted in presser today

[flamingdem]

Asahi Shinbun: Core Meltdown in Reactors 2 and 3 at #Fukushima

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/05/asahi-shinbun-core-meltdown-in-reactors.html


Asahi Shinbun (3:01AM JST 5/17/2011):--- EXCERPT more at link

東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の２、３号機でも炉心溶融が起こり、原子炉圧力容器の底に燃料が崩れ落ちるメルトダウンが起きていたとみられること が、１６日に東電が公表したデータで裏付けられた。３号機では溶けた核燃料がさらに下の格納容器内に落ちた恐れもある。専門家は事故直後から指摘してお り、細野豪志首相補佐官も１６日の会見で２、３号機でのメルトダウンの可能性を示唆した。

The data disclosed by TEPCO on May 16 shows that core meltdown may have occurred in the Reactors 2 and 3 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. In the Reactor 3, the melted fuel may have dropped to the Containment Vessel. Nuclear experts have pointed to the possibility and Prime Minister's Assistant Goshi Hosono hinted at the possibility in the May 16 press conference.

----------- comments by SKF

Fun to see the spin by one of the MSM in Japan. Now they are all saying core meltdown, complete core meltdown, we knew from the beginning, we knew in March. It's hysterically comical.

Particularly hilarious is Haruki Madarame, who now basically says "we knew that", while he was the one who told the PM on March 12, "Don't worry, the nuclear reactor doesn't break."

Yes, there were nuclear experts and independent journalists in Japan and around the world who said it was a meltdown, and they were attacked by the government and the MSM like Asahi as "fear-mongering". I thought so too, after reading the entries on wiki on Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and corium, among others.

But it isn't true until the official, government-approved sources say so, and it is now, after more than 2 months: complete core meltdown in all three operating Reactors at Fukushima I.

What's next? Recriticality, maybe, announced in two months or so?

[aquart]

1. Oh, the shock! The surprise!

These bastards have ruined my arugula with their cesium.

[flamingdem]

3. They did new tests at the UC Berkeley Lab KALE is worse than before

Not that many of us eat kale, but anyway. I'll post the link.

[aquart]

4. Kale can glow for all I care. But arugula! ARUGULA?

How can I eat sliced beef without arugula? HOW?

[flamingdem]

5. Maybe if you put it through the washing machine?

Seriously you might find it grown in greenhouses where supposedly it would be protected..

[FBaggins]

6. Don't worry... The arugula came back clean.

Hasn't shown a detectable level in over a month... and even then it was of the "eat 10,000 pounds of the stuff to get the dose you get on one airline flight" level.

[kristopher]

2. Today in Diet Kan said he knew before he went on-site on 3/12...

...that the "reactor's containment vessels were likely to have been damaged".

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Hmm.. How fast until the collapse of the current

Government?

[kristopher]

10. That only happens with a vote of no confidence.

Do you think anyone else wants the job right now?

I'd therefore expect Kans 32% approval rating to carry his party at least until there is light at the end of the tunnel re control of the reactors.

6 months to a year?

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Depends on how much he messes up

As in perception, whether the previous ruling party thinks it can benefit...six months to a year sounds 'bout right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Quelle surprise...

[flamingdem]

8. It's Le Bunny Nuclear Alegre! nt