Areas in Reactor No. 2 may be over 100°C — Fuel probably as melted as mud

[FourScore]

Kyoto Professor: Areas in Reactor No. 2 may be over 100°C — Fuel probably as melted as mud, increasing water injection may move it around — Can’t see inside for decades (VIDEO)
Published: February 8th, 2012 at 6:44 am ET
By ENENews

Title: Interview of Hiroaki Koide
Source: Tanemaki Journal
Date: Feb 8, 2012
Translation by Fukushima Diary

[...] Probably the fuel is as melted as mud. It’s attached to everywhere in the vessel, and the place that the mud is attached gets heated. If they increase the water amount, the mud may move and the new place may get heated again.

So some place may get cool but other place may get extremely hot. So other places where no heat gauge is near may be over 100°C.

Even robot can’t get into the vessel. We can not see inside of the vessel for longer than several decades.

http://enenews.com/kyoto-professor-areas-in-reactor-no-2-may-be-over-100%C2%B0c-probably-fuel-is-as-melted-as-mud-increasing-water-injection-may-be-moving-it-around-cant-see-inside-for-decades-video

[tavalon]

1. slow motion disasters just don't grip human the way the fast moving ones do

But this, with the exception of global warming is the biggest environmental disaster happening but it's happening in such slow motion these days.

[DCKit]

2. K&R while waiting for the usual suspects to weigh in.

What are the credentials of this so-called scientist?
How can "mud" possibly be dangerous?
Those temperature readings are obviously due to faulty equipment.
Any type of radiation this reactor could possibly emit is harmless.
Blah, blah, blah.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. K&R

[Miqqyy]

4. Meanwhile - ominous nuclear life-form mutant crap "growing" in America

Mysterious "white web" found growing on nuclear waste

By Robert T. Gonzalez, Dec 16, 2011

This is as fascinating as it is unsettling. Scientists at the
Department of Energy's Savannah River Site — a
nuclear reservation in South Carolina — have
identified a strange, cob-web like "growth" (their word,
not ours) on the racks of the facility's spent nuclear
fuel assemblies.

According to a report filed by the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board, "the growth, which resembles a
spider web, has yet to be characterized, but may be
biological in nature."

The Augusta Chronicle reported today that the "white,
string-like" material was discovered amidst thousands
of the spent fuel assemblies, which are submerged in
deep nuclear storage pools within SRS's L Area
Complex.

<snip>

I don't know what's more intriguing — the fact that
the "growth" resembles a spider web, the fact that it
may be biological in nature, or the fact that (even after
collecting a sample of the stuff) we still don't know
what it is or where it came from.

<snip>

Reported by the Augusta Chronicle December 16, 2011
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-12-16/strange-nuclear-waste-lint-might-be-biological-nature

http://m.io9.com/5868883/mysterious-white-webs-found-growing-on-nuclear-waste


Jeez - they must be feeding the nuclear waste Corporate GMO food.

[NMDemDist2]

5. mutant super spider?

[hobbit709]

6. 100°C, I'd say it's a lot hotter than that to melt the fuel rods.

100° is the boiling point of water, not melting point of Uranium.