Yeah...I don’t know if you could read the article or not. But they estimate 99,000 pounds of salt has accumulated in just one of the reactors. I mean...WOW!
Richard T. Lahey Jr., who was General Electric’s chief of safety research for boiling-water reactors when the company installed them at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, said that as seawater was pumped into the reactors and boiled away, it left more and more salt behind.That's unbelievable. 50 tons of salt?!?!? I mean, the insides of those reactors are big, but are they that big they can hold all that in addition to everything else in there?? Those numbers are an order of magnitude bigger than what I expected.He estimates that 57,000 pounds of salt have accumulated in Reactor No. 1 and 99,000 pounds apiece in Reactors No. 2 and 3, which are larger.
The big question is how much of that salt is still mixed with water and how much now forms a crust on the uranium fuel rods.