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No Fuel In the Fukushima Reactor #1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-this-old-thing? dept.

An anonymous reader writes To nobody's surprise, the Japanese press reports that a new way to look at the inside of one of the Fukushima 1 damaged reactors has shown the fuel is not in place. Engineers have not been able to develop a machine to directly see the exact location of the molten fuel, hampered by extremely high levels of radiation in and around the reactors, but a new scan technique using muons (details on the method in the media are missing) have shown the fuel is not in its place. While Tepco's speculation is that the fuel may be at the bottom of the reactor, it is a safe bet that at least some of it has burned through and has gone on to create an Uruguay syndrom.

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  1. Safe? by chinton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

  2. Re:What on earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The highly radioactive material must of melted through the center of the Earth and appeared in Uruguay. What else could it be?

  3. Obligatory by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ford Prefect: How are you feeling?
    Arthur Dent: Like a military academy. Bits of me keep passing out. Ford? If I were to ask you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
    Ford Prefect: We're safe.
    Arthur Dent: Ah. Good.
    Ford Prefect: We're in a cabin of one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
    Arthur Dent: Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word "safe" that I hadn't previously been aware of.

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  4. Re:What on earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there such a thing as "northern Antarctica"? Would that just be the entire coast of Antarctica?