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It took five years to open a pressurized container at Three Mile Island, and another six before nuclear fuel removal was completed. Dismantling work still hasn't begun.
On April 4, Physics Professor Michio Kaku headlined his article, "Hanging by your fingernails - The Fukushima Meltdown," saying:
Fukushima is about as stable as "hang(ing) by your fingernails off a cliff, and (they're) begin(ning) to break one by one."
The disaster progressed "in three acts:
(1) The earthquake and tsunami, knocking out "all emergency cooling systems simultaneously" at three or more reactors, "and all hell has broken loose."
(2) Enormous "damage done to the cores of (at least) three reactors," causing a disaster perhaps spinning out of control.
(3) "With the cores covered with seawater and fresh water, the workers are desperately trying to hit rock bottom, so they can begin recovery operations."
However, the bottom hasn't been reached. Radiation leaks are found "everywhere." Workers don't know precisely where they're coming from. Most likely is "a direct contact between melted uranium (called "corium") and the cooling water, probably caused by a pipe break or, more ominously, a pressure vessel that has completely melted through."
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