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.”