Cold shutdown was a lie

Following up this article about the press conference of Prime Minister Noda

JP PM Noda asserted all the parts of the container vessels are cooler than 100℃ so they declared cold shutdown.

However, on 12/26/2011, Tepco announced they will drill into the container vessel to check the temperature of inside by using an endoscope.

Tepco admits melt through is happening at reactor 2 at least and reactor 3 uses MOX so they can not get close. This is why they try to check the temperature of the reactor 2, but it means they don’t know how hot it is actually.

They are planning to do it by mid January but they admit they won’t be able to see the melted fuel somewhere near the vessels.

(Source)

「内視鏡」で格納容器調査=来月、2号機で-福島第1
東京電力は26日、福島第1原発2号機の格納容器の内部を、工業用内視鏡を使って調べると発表した。廃炉作業の一環で、容器内の温度やたまった水の水温などの確認が目的。来年1月中旬をめどに行い、成功すれば1、3号機でも実施を検討する。
東電によると、1~3号機は炉心溶融(メルトダウン)が起きており、2号機では溶融燃料の一部が圧力容器から格納容器に落下したと推定されている。東電はドリルを使って格納容器の壁に穴を開け、容器内の配管の状態やたまった水の量を調べる。圧力容器底部までは見えないため、燃料の損傷状態を調べるのは難しいという。(2011/12/26-20:59)

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
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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