They are advancing the kabuki now…
TEPCO just stuck an industrial-grade endoscope, one specifically designed for extreme radiation environments, into a hole drilled into the Daiichi #2 reactor in order to look for the corium- the melted mass of fuel and core structures that used to be the reactor core.
This is months overdue and the oligarchs responsible for this delay should be required to spend a decade in jail for every day they refused to do it.
So TEPCO tried to find the corium or at least confirm the water level. What they found was high heat, massive amounts of steam and an equally massive radiation flux… this in a reactor that is supposedly in a state of “cold shutdown.”
It will be no surprise to FFS readers that they couldn’t find the corium amidst the steam and radiation “dazzle”.
They couldn’t even find the water level.
They can’t find it because the core isn’t there. It hasn’t been there since the day of the quake.
The <1% already knew this, of course, but I'd guess that they are trying to "break the news gently"... or rather, they have begun trying to sync up the fantasy of lies they've been spinning with the reality of what they've actually done to the Japanese people.
This isn’t going to end well…