Reuters: "Japan No 2 core melted through reactor vessel: Rep. Markey"

"The core at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor
has melted through the reactor pressure vessel,
Democratic Congressman Edward Markey told a hearing on the nuclear disaster on Wednesday.

"I have been informed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
that the core of Unit Two has gotten so hot
that part of it has probably melted through the reactor pressure vessel," said Markey,
a prominent nuclear critic in the House of Representatives."

Reuters


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