FUKUSHIMA UPDATE [Excerpt] BBC Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, Dec. 6, 2013: They’re doing this work because that’s the easy bit. Reactor 4 was not badly damaged compared to the other reactors. There was no core meltdown, so that is the one that they can sort of get to grips with […] Reactor buildings 1, 2, and 3 where there were core meltdowns, the radiation levels there are still way too high for anyone to go in those buildings. So I think Reactors 1, 2, and 3, the reactors that had core meltdowns, are the real long-term problem, and a very difficult problem to deal with. Reactor 4 is a bit of a distraction. It’s important to get the fuel out, but it is the easy bit. […] the really big headache [is] to keep those melted reactors cool, which they have to do for many years to come. They have to pump water into the damaged reactor cores […] It’s a real nightmare to manage this ever-growing amount of water... enenews/bbc-work-at-fukushima-unit-4-a-distraction-real-nightmare-is-coming-from-3-molten-cores-nytimes-melted-fuel-is-all-over-the-place-first-goal-is-simply-to-stop-uncontrolled-releases Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center - updated radiation monitoring information from private and government sites: netc/
Posted on: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:18:42 +0000
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