Top U.S. Nuclear Official in Fukushima: We won’t know if molten fuel burned into earth until we get a device inside to look — Expert: All 3 reactor cores may have melted down into groundwater (VIDEO)
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February 11th, 2014
CBS News, Mar. 16, 2012 (at 3:00 in):
CBS: Had [the plant manager not flooded the reactors] we now know that the cores may have burned all the way into the earth, releasing untold amounts of radiation.
Charles Casto, leader of Nuclear Regulatory Commission at Fukushima: You really won’t know until you get in there and can get a video camera or some device in there to know what really happened.
CBS: How long will that be?
Casto: It could take years to understand exactly what happened.
>> Watch the broadcast here
Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, MD, Feb. 9, 2014:
At 2:45 in: Units 1, 2 and 3… turned into molten lava, [melted] on to the containment floor made of steel and concrete — and it is not known, but there’s quite a strong possibility that 1, 2 or 3 of them could have melted their way right into the earth.
At 4:00 in: Now there’s molten cores, 3 of them, extremely radioactive, which are bring bathed by the water coming down from the mountains because the containment vessels are broken and the water pours in – and/or 1 or 2 or more of the cores are in the earth being bathed by the water. And that water is incredibly radioactive. Every day since March 11, 2011 300 to 400 tons of radioactive water have been pouring out into the Pacific.
>> Full interview available here
