Even Tepco admitted melt-out is occurring.

Tepco has been stating that Fukushima plants are under control and they can achieve cold shutdown by the end of this year.

However, 11/30/2011, Tepco admitted that melt-out is happening at reactor 1 ,2 ,and 3.

In “their worst senario”, at reactor 1 , all the fuel has melted, it broke through the pressure vessel, dropped to the bottom of the container vessel. They assume the melted fuel is sinking to about 65cm depth of the concrete on the bottom of the container vessel.

Please note that there is only 37cm left to the body of the container vessel.

Also, they assume 57% of the fuel in reactor 2 and 63% of the fuel in reactor 3 have already melted out to the container vessel.

They still assert the situation is stable, but they don’t have any basis.

(Source)

1号機溶融燃料 65cm浸食
11月30日 19時6分
東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故で、メルトダウンが起きた1号機の燃料は、鋼鉄の原子炉の底を突き破って相当の量が格納容器に落下し、容器の底のコンクリートを溶かして最大で65センチ浸食していると推定されることが、東京電力の解析結果から分かりました。2号機と3号機についても一部の燃料は格納容器に落下していると推定しており、改めて事故の深刻さが浮き彫りになっています。

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  2. @Cal Abel“Even had they venetd the containments when they could it is doubtful they would have succeeded in preserving their integrity because of the loss of all AC/DC”Venting the Drywell / Torus earlier may have allowed Reactor Pressure to be lowered sufficiently to achieve injection with the Temporary Pump. Aligning alternate injection sources is required by Emergency Operating Procedures and Severe Accident Guidelines – this always includes lowering Reactor Pressure sufficiently to enable injection, or lowering Drywell Pressure sufficiently to enable flooding.Page 11 of the INPO Report… “The decision to complete evacuations before venting containment, and the subsequent equipment and radiological challenges encountered as operators attempted to establish a vent path, delayed injection of water into the Unit 1 reactor. At approximately 0230 on March 12, as Unit 1 depressurized, pressure in the reactor and in containment equalized at approximately 122 psia (0.84 MPa abs). This pressure is above the discharge pressure of the station fire pumps and fire engines. Once pressure had equalized, further reductions in reactor pressure were not possible until containment pressure had lowered. As a result, little to no injection was achieved until after the containment was venetd successfully, which occurred at approximately 1430 on March 12. High containment pressures in Unit 1 contributed to the amount of time Unit 1 did not have adequate core cooling.” Reply

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Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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