More melted nuclear fuel found inside a Fukushima reactor
More melted fuel has been found at the bottom of the Fukushima power planet, seven years after Japan's worst nuclear disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant, says a long telescopic probe has successfully captured images of the fuel inside the plant's Unit 2 primary containment vessel. The images showed that at least part of the fuel breached the core, falling to the vessel's floor. TEPCO says that that the status inside the primary containment vessel is still stable, and that there are no changes in radiation levels at the site boundaries of Fukushima Daiichi's Nuclear Power Plant. A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 caused three reactors at the Fukushima plant to melt.
Jan-19-2018, 17:40:16 GMT
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