Japanese officials say the nuclear fuel rods appear to be melting inside all three of the most troubled nuclear rreactors - AP
Yup they say exposed on NHK Japan... http://bit.ly/idutY6
“Japanese officials say the nuclear fuel rods appear to be melting inside all three of the most troubled nuclear rreactors - AP”
Yes. This is consistent with what I just said. Melting of the rods is not a “meltdown” in the China Syndrome sense. The principal protection against major environmental damage is the concrete containment vessel. It is designed to completely contain a full melting of the rods. I hope GE designed the concrete vessel well. If they did, then the Japanese have a huge and expensive local cleanup problem but nothing more. I think the bigger danger is quake damage to the concrete vessel. If it is breached, then everything changes. So far, there’s no evidence of a breach of the concrete vessel.