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From Bloomberg News on 24 May 2011 is what Ken Nakajima of Kyoto University defined. "Now, they have confirmed what everyone expected."

Tepco Says Fuel Rods Melted Down in Two More Reactors at Fukushima Plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel rods melted in two more reactors at its Fukushima nuclear plant, indicating for the first time that damage from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is matching worse-case-scenarios.

Fuel rods in reactors 2 and 3 had almost complete meltdowns, spokesman Junichi Matsumoto told reporters in Tokyo today. That’s in line with U.S. assessments in the early days of the crisis that suggested damage to the station was more severe than Tokyo Electric officials estimated.

TEPCO claims to end this crisis in six to nine months. Amazing that anyone would believe anything from TEPCO VP Muta. Three Mile Island with a working cooling system and only a partial meltdown took a year to cool. And another nine years to clean out. Three TEPCO reactors without working cooling systems will be cooled and then cleaned out in nine months? At what point does the obvious finally become obvious? They are still lying even to themselves.