Endoscopic Exam of Fukushima Reactor

Posted by timothy on Friday January 20, 2012 @05:36PM from the you'll-want-this-large-glove dept.

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? by symbolset · 2012-01-20 22:39 · Score: -1, Redundant

A physicist would tell you that finding the fuel there is about as likely as finding it a half kilometer down. Corium gets really fucking hot. Melt through anything hot. That's what they mean by "China syndrome".

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Re:No sign of the fuel? by symbolset · 2012-01-20 23:40 · Score: -1, Redundant

Show me one case where three cores melted down in the same week, within 500 meters of each other. One. There isn't any. This is a new thing and we don't know what's in it.

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