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TEPCO’s problem of finding exact location of molten nuclear fuel

All Nuclear Fuel Has Melted At Fukushima, Say TEPCO The Tokyo Electric Power Company Tells All Neon Nettle  |@Neon Nettle 24th March 2015 The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) are claiming that almost all the fuel inside one of the Fukushima nuclear plant’s reactors has melted.

Japantoday.com reports:

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the technology, which uses elementary particles called “muon” to create x-ray style images, gave the most concrete evidence yet the fuel had dropped to the bottom of No. 1 reactor.

The data, though largely expected, should help TEPCO as it continues its effort to decommission the plant four years after an earthquake and tsunami caused one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in living memory.

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…….http://www.neonnettle.com/sphere/236-all-nuclear-fuel-has-melted-at-fukushima-say-tepco-

August 17, 2015 - Posted by | general

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