#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: TEPCO Claims SDF Saw Water in Reactor No.4's Spent Fuel Pool

From Yomiuri Shinbun (in Japanese; 1:01PM JST 3/17/2011):

Japan's Self Defense Force is doing the dousing of the Reactor No.3. TEPCO announced that the Self Defense Force helicopter doing the dousing of the Reactor No.3 saw water in the Spent Fuel Pool on the top floor of the Reactor No.4, and that the water seemed to completely cover the used nuclear fuel rods stored in the pool.

There are 783 nuclear fuel rods stored in the Spent Fuel Pool of the Reactor 4, INCLUDING the active fuel rods temporarily removed from the Pressure Vessel, so the temperature of the Spent Fuel Pool of the Reactor 4 is considered to be higher.

The Reactor No.3 which the SDF has been dousing with water has 514 used nuclear fuel rods in its Spent Fuel Pool. Steam is rising thick out of the Reactor No.3, and it is feared that the water level has gone down to a dangerous level.

The account of the SDF regarding the Reactor No.4 is diametrically opposite the dire assessment of the US Nuclear Regulation Commission. They can't both be right.

I hope the SDF is right, and the NRC is wrong.

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