TEPCO revises nuclear fuel damage ratios

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Tokyo Electric Power Company on Wednesday announced new estimates of damage after the country's nuclear safety agency questioned the accuracy of the initial assessments. The utility has revised the estimated fuel damage in the No.1 reactor from 70 percent to 55 percent, saying radiation levels were not correct.

TEPCO also says that it acted inappropriately in excluding fuel damage of less than 5 percent in calculating total damage ratios for the No.2 and No.3 reactors. As a result, the utility revised upward its estimates of damaged fuel in the No.2 and No.3 reactors by 5 percentage points each to 35 percent and 30 percent respectively.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/27_28.html

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1. Yep...

TEPCO says the corrected estimates will not affect the agency's crisis rating.

Still INES 7, baby.

TEPCO can continue to revise and correct it's data but it's not like it's credibility is going to resurrect itself from the dead. Who's to say these latest revisions are even correct?

The wording is a bit ambiguous. Is this the damaged fuel in the reactor itself or inside the fuel pools "inside" the reactor buildings? Oops... TEPCO issues another correction.

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2. They're referring to the cores

Who's to say these latest revisions are even correct?

Nobody. It wouldn't be possible to come up with more than an educated guess (probably for years). They just have more data to go on now.

Still INES 7, baby.

So? If all three blow up tomorrow and spread ten times as much material as Chernobyl... it will still be a seven. How would you respond to someone who then claimed that nothing had gotten worse because it was "still INES 7, baby." ???

Of course not. You would laugh at their childish misunderstanding. Which is just what I'm doing right now. :rofl: