Fukushima - they are planning to move fuel rods from the hottest spent storage pool in Nov. (scary)

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57. the structure is likely tilted and is bulging after its last explosion

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-japan-fukushima-insight-idUKBRE97D00M20130814

Tepco has shored up the building, which may have tilted and was bulging after the explosion, a source of global concern that has been raised in the U.S. Congress.....


Tepco confirmed the Reactor No. 4 fuel pool contains debris during an investigation into the chamber earlier this month.....

"Previously it was a computer-controlled process that memorized the exact locations of the rods down to the millimeter and now they don't have that. It has to be done manually so there is a high risk that they will drop and break one of the fuel rods," Kimura (former Tepco technician) said.....

"I think it'll probably be longer than they think and they're probably going to run into some issues," said Murray Jennex, an associate professor at San Diego State University who is an expert on nuclear containment and worked at the San Onofre nuclear plant in California.

Corrosion from the salt water will have also weakened the building and equipment, he said.