Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant

fysdt writes "Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core's 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down. Previously, Tepco believed that the core of the reactor was submerged in enough water to keep it stable and that only 55 per cent of the core had been damaged."

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He would never agree to that

[publiclurker]

People like roman don't care how many people die as long as he does not have to actually put a face to the numbers.

Re:nuclear can be safe; short term profit preferre

[oh_my_080980980]

You really are a douche bag...NUCLEAR REACTORS PRODUCE NUCLEAR WASTE! Where the hell have you been? And the reactor design was not safe. They raised safety concerns about it back in the '60s but the manufacturer did not want to address the problem because it would have cost money. Time for you to take that nuclear reactor out of your ass.

Re:nuclear can be safe; short term profit preferre

[dunkelfalke]

If by "reprocessing" you mean "recover uranium, plutonium and some other actinides, dump the rest into a river" then by all means, be my guest.

Re:The "I Told You So" Thread?

[spun]

I love that this is touted as being due to "extreme circumstances," as if there were nothing different that could have been done, like, oh I don't know, listen to these guys?