Temperature at No.2 reactor remains high.

[FBaggins]

10. The dance never ends, does it?

Tepco isn't willing (isn't able really) to guess whether some of the fuel remains in the RPV (and, if so, how much... and, if so, how much is still above the support plates)... or how much of it fell all the way to the bottom of the primary containment. They can't say for certain whether it then burned through one inch... of two inches... or perhaps six inches of concrete. So they can't tell you exactly where every ounce of corium currently sits...

...so of course the nuts at enenews take that to mean that it's equally possible that the corium is several meters below the reactor outside of any containment and about to hit the water table some tmie tomorrow afternoon. Hey! They don't know exactly where it is, so logically it could be anywhere!

This is hardly unique to this issue. Tepco announces (today?) that there's no sign of any recriticality in unit 2 and their title, of course, it "Tepco checking if 'chain of nuclear fission has occurred again in melted fuel'"

Tepco announces that the new piping appears to have changed the water flow within the reactor, since the temperature has risen in one part (but not the others)... so the fuel isn't cooling as well as it did previously. Their title? "no longer be able to properly cool down melted nuclear fuel" as if the reactor was now out of control and there was nothing they could do to stop it. Hey! It says they're not able to cool it!

And how many seconds did it take them to breathlessly turn a leaking pipe in California into "could have lead to meltdown, China Syndrome, catastrophic radioactivity release " ???