Kyodo: Water at Fukushima Unit 1 is more radioactive OUTSIDE containment vessel than inside

Kyodo: Water at Fukushima Unit 1 is more radioactive OUTSIDE containment vessel than inside

The water is more radioactive outside the Primary Containment Vessel than inside — then where is the melted fuel more likely to be, outside the PCV or inside?

Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Unit 1 in July 2012: “Tepco ran a probe into the basement of Unit 1. This is not inside the containment, this is outside the containment. On the top of the water surface they found lethal radiation, 1000 rem an hour. But then they put the probe down into the water and what’s even worse is the bottom, the sediment on the bottom, was thousand of times hotter than that. And what that indicates is that fuel, nuclear fuel, has left the containment, as particles, and settled out on the bottom outside the containment.”

New Japan nuclear reactor prompts local debate | Featured Articles | Asia Daily Wire

New Japan nuclear reactor prompts local debate | Featured Articles | Asia Daily Wire

Plans to restart construction of a nuclear reactor in Aomori Prefecture, about 500km northeast of Tokyo, was met by contradicting sentiments from the host town and surrounding cities, Asahi Shimbun reports.

Electric Power Development Co. president, Masoyashi Kitamura, reiterated the significance of resuming construction of a nuclear plant in Oma during a town assembly. The Oma plant plans to use “mixed oxide (MOX) fuel” from reprocessed spent nuclear fuel to generate power, the world’s first nuclear plant to do so. “The Oma nuclear plant is an important power plant that will play a part in the nuclear fuel cycle,” Kitamura said.