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Fukushima reactor No 1 refuelling floor too radioactively hot for humans to enter

Former Fukushima Daiichi Worker: My best guess is explosion had to blow lid off pressure vessel at Reactor 1  http://enenews.com/former-fukushima-daiichi-worker-my-best-guess-is-explosion-had-to-blow-lid-off-pressure-vessel-at-reactor-1   August 2nd, 2012   By ENENews Chris Canine has 15 years experience as a Health Physics Technician, Chemist and Radiation Safety Instructor. He has worked at over 20 plants throughout the United States, Japan and Mexico — including Fukushima #1 and #2 in the late 1970′s.

August 1, 2012 comment on ‘Tepco planning to float a balloon inside Reactor 1 in early August — Inspecting top floor with spent fuel pool‘

Tepco is basically saying that the refueling floor is still too radioactively hot for any human to enter. There was no fire in that spent fuel pool, and we never heard that it was like unit #3 and blew the lid off the pressure vessel. So why are radiation levels so high? During normal operations there is little radiation on the refueling floor because there is really nothing there. The fuel in the pool is under water with no dose on the surface, and the reactor is buried under cement and steel. My best guess is that the hydrogen explosion had to blow the lid off this reactor also. With radioactive gasses and particulates coming out of the reactor the cover was put on the building to limit the releases out onto the site. But as the cover kept in a lot of this radioactive material the refueling floor is so contaminated that it is no longer a place where humans can work or even walk through.

Find the answer why they put a cover on only this building and that will tell you the condition of this unit.

August 4, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2012