elbows
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Aha, we have confirmation, using interesting technology, that there is pretty much no fuel remaining in the reactor vessel of reactor 1:
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150320p2g00m0dm028000c.html
This isn't surprising given how long Unit 1 lacked proper cooling, and given the temperature, and lack of temperature fluctuations, of that reactor since the disaster. Using the same tech to study reactors 2 & 3 will interest me more, because there are greater unknowns with those reactors.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150320p2g00m0dm028000c.html
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it has confirmed that nearly all fuel in the No. 1 reactor at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has melted and fallen into the containment vessel, through analysis using elementary particles called muons.
This isn't surprising given how long Unit 1 lacked proper cooling, and given the temperature, and lack of temperature fluctuations, of that reactor since the disaster. Using the same tech to study reactors 2 & 3 will interest me more, because there are greater unknowns with those reactors.