Check this out..I can’t believe anyone can read this and come on these threads and say with a straight face that the last paragraph sounds accurate...
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/15_21.html
Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, says most of the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor had dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel within 16 hours of the earthquake on March 11th.
The utility revealed its study on the subject on Sunday.
TEPCO said it analyzed the data and calculated a timeline for the developments in the No. 1 reactor on the assumption that the reactor lost its cooling system as soon as it was hit by the tsunami.
The firm said that within about 3 hours after the reactor automatically shut down, the cooling water had evaporated to a level at the top of the rods.
In the next hour and a half, parts of the fuel rods are believed to have begun melting.
The temperature of the fuel rods is believed to have reached 2,800 degrees Celsius at this stage, and the meltdown advanced rapidly.
Almost of all the fuel rods melted and dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel by 6:50 am on March 12th.
TEPCO said the temperature dropped after water was poured into the reactor starting at 5:50 am on the same day.
The firm says the melted rods created small holes on the bottom of the vessel, but that no major problems are developing there. It believes that the amount of radioactive substances that could spread from the reactor will be limited.
Sunday, May 15, 2011 23:29 +0900 (JST)-———————
BTW, WHY IS THIS JUST NOW COMING OUT???????
(many of us here already suspected this to be the case)
Highly Radioactive Substances Detected in Tokyo
Arirang News
Moving on to the latest developments in Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis highly radioactive substances were detected in parts of Tokyo. Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reports about 3200 and nearly 2-thousand becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram were …
http://tokyoinformer.com/783/highly-radioactive-substances-detected-in-tokyo-arirang-news/
In many cases, people withhold information in the hope that they can buy the time to get things taken care of and back to normal. They may sense that it won’t be the case and this thing will continue to create problem or may even get worse as time passes by. Better to shed part of liability now via delayed leak as people find it out sooner or later.
Withholding them all to the end would be catastrophic to those in charge.