Endoscopic Exam of Fukushima Reactor

mdsolar writes with this excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald: "Radiation-blurred images taken inside one of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors show steam, unidentified parts and rusty metal surfaces scarred by 10 months of exposure to heat and humidity. The photos — the first inside-look since the disaster — showed none of the reactor's melted fuel or its cooling water but confirmed stable temperatures and showed no major ruptures caused by the earthquake last March, said Junichi Matsumoto, spokesman for plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company." Here's a video.

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Re:No sign of the fuel?

[muon-catalyzed]

> near the bottom of the reactor vessel

Radioactivity is spread all over Japan -- the soil is radioactive. Watch this video (and lots of similar ones on YouTube) this is children's playground just outside of Tokyo, nowhere near Fuckupshima. The geiger counter shows 6.4 micro sieverts/h while the normal background level is in 0.1-0.3 range. You might say that is not a big problem as it is in the ground only, but the dust particles get spread as the children play, once they breathe them in, they might have a problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIDFh3wPXY