“Reactor 3 fuel is assumed to have melted concrete base up to 26cm to the wall of primary vessel.”

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August 08, 2014 at 05:26PM

Tepco has just admitted the most part of reactor 3 fuel melted out of RPV. From their latest simulation, the fuel penetrated into the concrete base by 1.2m and it is 26~68 cm to the wall of PCV.

(This article was posted from Iori’s mobile device to prioritize the speed of informing more than accuracy. It will be followed up by the main part of Fukushima Diary shortly. I hope you to follow this for reference.)

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