Fukushima Reactors Heating Up Again … Water Fails to Cool Them Down, page 1

Well well well.

Fukushima Reactors Heating Up Again … Water Fails to Cool Them Down

Temperatures are soaring within the reactor 2 containment vessel. And see this.

Tepco says that no new nuclear chain reactions are occurring … but admits that the water may no longer be able to cool the reactor. As NHK reports:

Attempts to cool the temperature in the No. 2 reactor of the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have only partially succeeded despite the injection of more cooling water.

The temperature in the reactor has gradually risen from about 45 degrees Celsius registered on January 27th.

In the past 4 days, the temperature has climbed more than 20 degrees to above 70 degrees.

TEPCO says the rise in temperatures indicate that the flow of water in the reactor may have changed direction after plumbing work, and is no longer able to properly cool down the melted down nuclear fuel.

Tepco has admitted that they don't have a clue about what is going on. They have increased the amount of water pumped into the reactor ten percent, but their technicians don't know what is going on.

The temperatures in reactors 3 and 5 are rising as well.

A journalist says that a member of the Japanese parliament put him in touch with a manager in Tepco’s engineering department who told him that reactor 4 is “very unstable and dangerous”.

This ain't over by a long shot... and might in fact about to become WORSE.

Stay tuned and hope for the best.