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fuku is a good proof for murphy's law.

"Some nuclear experts have debated for months whether nuclear reactions might be continuing, either in the fuel inside the reactors, or in the spent fuel pools at the plant. They have pointed, for example, to the continued reports of short-lived iodine in the spent fuel pool at Reactor No. 3."

@Edano sounds a good explanation

@Edano maybe he is speaking relatively , the debris etc is pretty big chunks that would dwarf a fuel pellet. But at the end of the day the anonymous employee could be a paid puppet trying to deflect attention

@elainekirk right, we must be careful.

I will check again

there is a 12.00hrs Nov 2nd data doc here it means nothing to me but you techi's may like it www.tepco.co.jp

BBC News - Vulcan MoD nuclear site in Caithness could be scrapped bbc.in

@ all - the reference to tiny fuel pellets could it be "nuclear fuel fleas"? I heard this term used recently to describe tiny bits of fuel pellet that come apart as part of the meltdown process. The mention talked of them being able to get into steam or explosion matter. I think this was in an article about plutonium and how it could have been carried away from the plant

the article is full of tiny, unknown details.

The NYT and this NHK one both hint at fuel outside of containment, the NHK one being a bit harder to interpret his exact intent due to lots of vague terminology. www3.nhk.or.jp

So TEPCO is running out of cash and cutting corners to try to pay compensation. They admit this fission issue and their stock price tanks. There is i-131 in the rice and now all these little hints of info like that NYT article has.

They are running out of cash, it sounds like there is more going on than admitted and now hints of fuel out of containment, iodine being produced in fuel pools etc.

Tepco have to tread carefully though, they cannot reveal the full extent of the situation whilst still having overall control of the plant otherwise they have responsibility so they have to turn public on government to force the hand of government but they can only do it by vague 'maybe's' and 'possibles'

so far as to "the situation is under control".

@Peter but .25 hz means one swing per 4 seconds, that is too slow to break, isn't it ?

Reactor 2 CV Gas Analysis on November 2: Slight Increase in Xe-131m, Xe-135, 100-Fold Increase in Krypton-85 from November 1 ex-skf.blogspot.com

Even MORE hot spots in Setagaya High radiation dose in Setagaya, Tokyo 15 new locations
NTV (NNN) , March 11 (Thursday) at 7:00, 36 minutes delivery
　Problem is found from the site of the super-radioactive radium in Setagaya, Tokyo, found 15 new locations where the high radiation dose. 　Two days and the ministry, was removed by digging the soil around the bottle and was buried in the ground, where the radiation dose was decreased to 25 micro bottle buried Sievert per hour. Is not in a bottle containing a mass of brown, the ministry has concluded that this substance radium radiation source. 　Meanwhile, in addition to this location, was detected high radiation doses of 12 micro sievert per hour at 15 locations inside and outside the new premises. For these locations, the ministry sequentially to identify the radiation source dig the soil, with plans to remove the work is expected to be prolonged. [Articles] on the ground "radiation source" high-dose bottle collection Setagaya Setagaya followed by high dose of the reagent bottle dig working with high radiation doses, Setagaya, reagent bottles in the ground with high radiation doses, Setagaya, or radium-226 in Setagaya, Tokyo Drilling begins at the high dose area headlines.yahoo.co.jp