TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors

blau writes with an article in NHK World. From the article "The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says findings show that fuel meltdowns may have occurred at the No.2 and No.3 reactors within days of the March 11th earthquake. But it says both reactors are now stable at relatively low temperatures." TEPCO is also now blaming the tsunami for most of the damage rather than the earthquake.

Comments

Re:New news? Don't think so

[LWATCDR]

You don't get it. It melted down. That means that no one can live in Japan ever again. Millions will die, This disaster makes the actual Earthquake and Tsunami seem like nothing!

Re:relatively low temperatures

[tehcyder]

which is *WHY* TEPCO is waiting until things have been confirmed before releasing news. It's not like they've actually hidden anything, they are just no releasing every factoid as-it-happens - but that's to be expected, because they are not fucking CNN. They have a responsibility to release accurate information to the ability possible, which is more important than releasing a new fact every 15 minutes - they aren't on Twitter either, for the same reason.

While they shouldn't downplay serious problems, they should be conservative in their news releases so as not to raise panic for no reason.

You forgot to add "This post Copyright TEPCO PR department."