TEPCO: Meltdowns in Reactors 2 and 3

By arevamirpal::laprimavera The water gauges for the Reactors 2 and 3 are not to be trusted, said TEPCO’s Matsumoto in the press conference on May 12 (I watched the live-recorded video) when the company officially acknowledged the meltdown of the Reactor 1. If the water gauges for the Reactors 2 and 3 have been overstating the water levels, just like in the Reactor 1, it is very likely that all three reactors have hardly any water inside the Reactor Pressure Vessels (RPV), and the reactor cores are likely to have been melted. Just like Michio Ishikawa of Japan Nuclear Technology Institute said on April 29. About the water gauges for the Reactors 2 and 3:

“They are probably in the same condition as that of the Reactor 1. The numbers the gauges are currently showing are not very trustworthy. We need to monitor carefully with other parameters like pressure.” …

To confirm, TEPCO does not deny that the fuels have all melted and went down?

“We don’t deny that. How much of the fuels have melted we cannot say for certain, but our understanding is that they melted, and didn’t retain the original shapes, and moved downward.”

“We don’t deny that part of the melted fuels may have damaged the RPV and escaped the RPV.” …

From TEPCO Presser on May 12 Part 3: “Probably the Same Situation in Reactors 2 and 3”