All this end-of-world-mongering and I have yet to see any headlines that state “Containment Catastrophically Fails”. As far as I understand it, all the nuclear power plants in Japan could have meltdown and and as long as general containment is kept there isn’t a worldwide catastrophe that is going to happen.
There is already a defect in Reactor 2. TEPCO won’t say what or how bad.
Heard on CNN a few minutes ago the dome has been damaged.
Where have you been getting your research?
Once the rods are exposed and no longer cooled by a continuous flow of water/coolant, they begin to superheat, melting any containment vessel.
Once this happens, major contamination begins to creep from the exposed reactor/fuel into the environment.
This is serious.