Japan Times, Oct. 19, 2013: The government has been notably slow to act on several occasions, which has even left pro-nuclear advocates scratching their heads in bewilderment. [...] Presuming Tepco is able to control the spread of contamination beyond 2015, it would still have only scratched the surface of the issue. The mammoth task of removing the melted nuclear fuel and debris from the reactors lies ahead. Removing the spent fuel rods from the reactor 4 cooling pool merely puts Tepco and the government on a collision course with the hitherto great unknown: finding the melted nuclear fuel. Nuclear fuel inside reactors 1, 2 and 3 is believed to have breached the inner containment vessels and accumulated in the outer steel containment vessels — what experts describe as a “melt-through.” Assuming the reactor pressure vessels are submerged [it] still won’t help much in figuring out where the nuclear fuel is located. enenews/japan-times-the-great-unknown-is-where-did-nuclear-fuel-go-after-melt-through-at-3-fukushima-reactors-official-expert-humans-may-have-to-go-look-for-corium-after-raising-limits-for-radiati
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