Worse than meltdown, government report says devastating 'melt-through' has occurred at Fukushima; Official suggests Japan could become 'uninhabitable'
Thursday, June 09, 2011
by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Translation by Autumnson Blog
(NaturalNews) Recent reports confirming that Reactors 1, 2, and 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility completely melted just hours after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area on March 11 (http://www.naturalnews.com/032537_F...) have been trumped by even worse news that those same reactors have all likely "melted through," a situation that according to Japan's Daily Yomiuri DY is "the worst possibility in a nuclear accident."
（NaturalNews）最近的報告證實福島第一製藥核設施的反應堆1、2和3號完全融毁，僅在破壞性地震和海嘯於03月11日在該地區襲擊後的幾小時（http://www.naturalnews.com/032537_F .. 。），已被甚至更糟糕的消息比下，即那些同樣的反應堆全都可能“全融”，根據日本讀賣新聞報導，那是一種情況是“在核事故中最壞的可能性。”
And senior political official Ichiro Ozawa suggested in an interview with The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that the Fukushima situation could make the entire country of Japan "unlivable."
和高級政治官員小澤一郎在接受華爾街日報（WSJ）採訪時提出，福島情況可能使整個日本國家“不能居住。”
A nuclear core meltdown involves nuclear fuel exceeding its melting point to the point where it damages the core, leaks out, and threatens to potentially release high levels of radiation into the environment. However, a nuclear melt-through is an even worse scenario, as nuclear fuel literally melts through the bottom of damaged reactor pressure vessels into out containment vessels -- and possibly even melts through those outer vessels directly into ground, air, and water.
核心熔毀涉及核燃料超越它的熔點至一地步它損害了核心、洩漏、並威脅可能放出高水平的輻射到環境中。然而，核全熔是一個更糟糕的情況，當核燃料實質地透過損壞的反應堆壓力容器的底部熔化，進入遏制容器 -- 和可能甚至通過那些外容器融化直接進入地下、空氣和水。
The report suggesting that melt-throughs have already occurred, which is set to be submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is the "first official recognition" of this dire situation, according to DY. It also confirms early suspicions that such a scenario had been underway all along, as later reports confirmed that the epic disaster at the reactors had produced holes in come of the plant's core containment vessels, and that radioactive water, and possibly even fuel, were leaking into the lower vessels.
IAEA has already stated that the Fukushima disaster is at least as bad as the Chernobyl disaster (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/glob...), but this new information now suggests that it is probably even worse. At this time, it is unknown whether the fuel that has accumulated in the outer containment vessels has seeped outside, where it has the potential to contaminate groundwater supplies and wreak widespread environmental damage.
In an interview conducted prior to the release of the new report, Ichiro Ozawa told the WSJ that areas around Fukushima were already becoming completely "uninhabitable." He also suggested that as it currently stands, much of the rest of the country, including Tokyo, could suffer the same fate if nothing is done to properly and effectively contain the situation.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110607005367.htm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576348263512336934.html
http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2011/03/when-the-fukushima-meltdown-hits-groundwater/ |
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