Thursday, May 26, 2011

Fukushima, TEPCO: "Fuel zone in reactors 2 and 3"

In addition to a reactor, including the fuel rods of unit number 2 and 3 of the central Fukushima accused the partial melting as a result of damage caused by the earthquake of 11 March. It 's the TEPCO, nuclear plant operator, to announce and, updating the previous assessment that only the number 1 reactor was concerned "criticality", the damage now extends to all three active reactors with fuel at the time of the disaster .

In mid-May, TEPCO had explained that, based on the data collected, the number one reactor, due to cooling down, had recorded "the fusion of most of the fuel at the bottom of the containment vessel." The scenario had raised fears now confirmed that the numbers 2 and 3 had suffered the same fate.

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