TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 7, 2014 @07:46AM from the bit-warm-in-here dept.

mdsolar (1045926) writes "Almost all of the nuclear fuel in the No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant melted within days of the March 11, 2011, disaster, according to a new estimate by Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO originally estimated that about 60 percent of the nuclear fuel melted at the reactor. But the latest estimate released on Aug. 6 revealed that the fuel started to melt about six hours earlier than previously thought. TEPCO said most of the melted fuel likely dropped to the bottom of the containment unit from the pressure vessel after the disaster set off by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami."

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Re:So.. what? by bidule · 2014-08-07 10:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Even solar and wind have some negative affects.
Do not anthropomorphize power generators. They don't like it.

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