MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe – “WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top official from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Wednesday it was not clear that Japan’s Fukushima No. 2 nuclear reactor has melted through the reactor pressure vessel.

Earlier, Democratic lawmaker Edward Markey told a House of Representatives hearing on the nuclear disaster that the NRC had told him the core had melted through the vessel.”  Read more.

RT: In Japan officials estimate that seven tons of radioactive waste is flowing into the ocean every hour at the crippled Daiichi nuclear facility.  The source of the leaking waste appears to be reactor 2.  Attempts to clog the leak with cement have failed and new attempts to plug the hole with a junk shot of sawdust, chemicals and shredded newspaper don’t appear to be working either.  Officials have now put a time frame on containing the situation, saying it could be several months for the plant’s cooling systems to come back online and for the radiation to be contained.  Of course, that would be just the first step.  It would then take hundreds of thousands of years for this mess caused by the use of nuclear power to decay to safety.