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@Bobby1 , if true, this would be THE CHINA SYNDROME, in opposite direction though.

@Peter Melzer I suppose it's called the America Syndrome over there.

@Edano , @Bobby1, we must solicite some help to have the info translated properly, also the NISA instructions that tepco does not wish to translate. A total burnthrough would constitute an important milestone in this tragedy.

@Peter Melzer It's frustrating to have to rely on online translators. ex-skf is the only blogger regularly translating. Prof. Koide regularly appears on radio and TV shows over there.

Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public.
"Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.
"Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four fuel cores exposed," he said, "You probably have the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactor cores because of the fuel cores, and they are all in desperate need of being cooled, and there is no means to cool them effectively."

"The fuels are now a molten blob at the bottom of the reactor," Gundersen added. "TEPCO announced they had a melt through. A melt down is when the fuel collapses to the bottom of the reactor, and a melt through means it has melted through some layers. That blob is incredibly radioactive, and now you have water on top of it. The water picks up enormous amounts of radiation, so you add more water and you are generating hundreds of thousands of tons of highly radioactive water."

"We are discovering hot particles everywhere in Japan, even in Tokyo," he said. "Scientists are finding these everywhere. Over the last 90 days these hot particles have continued to fall and are being deposited in high concentrations. A lot of people are picking these up in car engine air filters."

Radioactive air filters from cars in Fukushima prefecture and Tokyo are now common, and Gundersen says his sources are finding radioactive air filters in the greater Seattle area of the US as well.
More: english.aljazeera.net

@Peter Melzer You are totally correct on the translation issue, i have watched many a post regarding the mechanical end here that is not even close, and is actually disproved on other post due to the translation of goggle and some of the media reports we are posting...

@elainekirk , unit #2 may not have seen an explosion because the operators opened a hole in the wall to release the gas. The radioactivity is supposed to have originated inside or beneath unit 1.

@elainekirk : because it melted down so rapidly. it is the oldest with the oldest material and the most design flares. i tend to agree it's the most dangerous.

French government to replace Areva CEO - "Atomic Anne"
in.reuters.com

@Edano , thanks, my memory is not very good on such facts. We had a nice comparative table posted not long ago listing the estimated points in time for the meltdowns of the three units
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Fukushima to cut hiring of teachers as nuclear crisis strikes student population
mdn.mainichi.jp

@Edano , most hydrogen was supposed to be produced in unit 3.

@Peter Melzer : ah, the fuel pool ?

@Edano , but the mox rods were in the reactor.

@Edano , that is the table, thanks. I must think about your question more.

@elainekirk : does this mean, they are not yet allowed to open the doors ?

wow !

French Embassy to celebrate revolution anniversary in Fukushima

TOKYO, June 16, Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jp

and areva pays for the party !

@elainekirk i found this:
"The utility plans to open the doors after obtaining approval from the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and local governments. ... Thursday, June 16, 2011 18:13 +0900 (JST)" www3.nhk.or.jp