tdkyo says:

Actually, if you are able to read other East-Asian languages, this news is everywhere. Link in Korean (from one of the biggest newspaper in Korea)
http://news.donga.com/Inter/Japan/3/0213/20110513/37186396/1

TooManyPuppies says:

Read about it yesterday, and was hoping you (JCD) and Adam would have spoke about it on the NA show, but it broke while you guys were in the middle of it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8509502/Nuclear-meltdown-at-Fukushima-plant.html

Alext says:

A good source of information

http://fairewinds.com

I find it very interresting

Jetfire says:

Drudge Report had this info from AP yesterday.

#6 The problem with the generators was they were designed for like 6 foot wave and an 8 foot wave came. When No one ever saw an 8 foot wave before.

Yes my heights are wrong but that’s simplified answer.

Ah_Yea says:

Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting this as well.

“Previously, Tepco officials had said they believed there had been “damage” to the fuel rods but didn’t specify what that meant. On Thursday, for the first time, officials conceded that the fuel rods likely had “melted,” crumbled or changed shape, and that the fuel had probably fallen from its casings.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576318470827245128.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird

bobbo, PUKES aren't the only ones lying all the time says:

With “High Tech” its always the issue that caused this horrible accident is pretty obvious now in hindsight and its been corrected. Problem is, there are 15 things the experts all know are possible to happen but not cost effective to address so it is claimed “safe” and we take our risks. Then the next accident will be one of the 15 things already well understood but not designed against.

Any one issue can be afforded, but ALL OF THE KNOWN RISKS cannot be designed against and afforded.

LIARS will tell you differently. But they are lying.

falconlem says:

I actually just looked this up on NHK’s website. Its absolutely true.
link for the story is here:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_26.html

An official of Japan’s nuclear safety agency has suggested that a nuclear fuel meltdown at one of the damaged Fukushima reactors means that filling the reactor’s container with water may be meaningless.

Hidehiko Nishiyama told reporters on Friday that melted rods at the bottom of the No. 1 reactor are being cooled by a small amount of water.

He said he doubts that it’s necessary to flood the containment vessel entirely, as the plant operator has been trying to do.

The operator, TEPCO, said on Thursday that most of the fuel rods in the reactor are believed to have melted and sunk to the bottom of the reactor’s pressure vessel.

TEPCO says the melted fuel has apparently cooled, even though much of the injected water is leaking through holes at the bottom of the vessel. …….

I actually sent this into CNN’s news tip email and then called them as well. The idiots don’t even have it up on their main homepage.. its just ridiculous.

I’m not emailing anyone else. Well maybe Fox.

sargasso_c says:

This is totally dreadful.

TooManyPuppies says:

Now that they have shamefully admitted to lying and purposefully withholding the factual truth from the public, who will forcefully demand and hold the Japanese government obligated to commit suicide?

If they dishonor themselves by hiding in shame without committing suicide, they need to be hunted down and executed.

gmiller says:

The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) daily information sheets (which I viewed through the Arms Control Wonk Blog) were more than enough information to determine that the fuel was melting during the crisis. The reporters are surprised because they weren’t understanding what the power companies were releasing.