Energy Secretary Steven Chu Said that Fukushima Reactor 1 Core was 70% damaged and worst of crisis is behind at Fukushima

Energy Secretary Steven Chu Said that Fukushima Reactor 1 Core was 70% damaged and worst of crisis is behind at Fukushima

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NY Times - Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday that roughly 70 percent of the core of one reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan had suffered damage. Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics, suggested that the worst moments of the crisis appeared to be receding, saying that the best information the United States had received from the Japanese authorities indicated that water was once again covering the cores of the stricken reactors and that pools of spent fuel atop the reactor buildings were “now under control.”


The Energy Department said that Reactor No. 2 had suffered a 33 percent meltdown. Mr. Chu cautioned that the figures were “more of a calculation” because radiation levels inside the plant had been too high for workers to get inside, and sensors were unreliable.

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