A catastrophic accident impending at the disastered Fukushima nuclear power plant

An ominous news on the disastered nuclear power plant in Fukushima.

At the first reactor there, the pedestal structure made of iron reinforced concrete turned out to have been damaged by the melted nuclear fuel in the accident in 2011. This video clip shows what has happened there. The concrete in the base has been dissolved and only the remnant iron structure receives the load. The pressure vessel weighs 450 tons with the height of 20 m. It seems such iron reinforced concrete receives the compressive load with the concrete portion, but not the iron structure. Without the concrete portion, it might be much weaker against the twisting load as well. 

The schema given below, even thouth the caption is in Japanese, shows the pedestal base almost totally destroyed with the melted nuclear fuel. RPV stands for the reactor pressure vessel whil PCV for primary containment vessel. The destroyed pedestal base, located below RPV, is colored red. The RPV on the damaged pedestal structure could easily fall down with earthquake. 392 pieces of the used nuclear fuels cooled in the pool, upper left of the RPV, colored blue, could fall and scatter around. The melted through nuclear fuel, that is, nuclear debris, under RPV as well as this used nuclear fuels in the pool could not be cooled and might reach a critical point for fission reaction. It would be a severe accident happening, possibly, more serious than that in 2011.

A researcher of seismic design of the nuclear power reactor has warned the government of the impending danger depicted above. However, he was told by a government high official that they won't take any action until the power line company proposed anything about it. 

I have already discussed about a part of this issue in another post. Here. The power line company, the central part of the nuclear power community described in the post linked above, would hardly respond to such a problem presentation. So does the government. Irresponsible and incompetent people and organizations. The government is enthusiastic for military expansion. But the country would be collapsed with such an accident, not an external force but an internal crisis. What stupidity!