New TEPCO analysis shows 94% of nuclear fuel melted in Reactor No. 3 « Energy News

"Computer analysis of reactor damage at Fukushima Daiichi has indicated more serious fuel melt has probably occurred than previously thought at units 2 and 3. [...]

For unit 2, the [...] second scenario has only about 12% of the core remaining on the support plate, with the rest having fallen into the water in the the lower part of the reactor pressure vessel. This may have happened by 15 March. [...]

For unit 3 the story is similar. [...] In the second case, some 94% of the fuel is assumed to have dropped into the water below by the morning of 14 March. [...]

Analysis of unit 1 suggested the entire core had fallen into water in the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel [...]"

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