First, on Nov 12, TEPCO admitted to the general public that it has already
kept 3 damaged fuel assemblies in the reactor 4 spent fuel pool (SFP) for
upwards of 25 years because TEPCO couldn’t move them to the common
pool or do much of anything else with them.
And then, on Nov 16, TEPCO casually mentions that there are actually some
80 such damaged assemblies known to be stranded in the various reactor
SFPs… and that some have been stuck in those pools for over 40 years.
