March 15, 2012, workers at the damaged GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, tried to enter the basements of reactors 2 and 3. It was the first attempt since the March 2011 disaster!
FAIL! Radiation levels are still too high for humans, and, on top of that, they discovered the basement doors for reactor 3 are jammed shut!
Tokyo Electric says they need access to the reactor suppression chambers, in order to assess the damage. They have not been able to do so for a year!
Radiation levels emitted from the suppression chamber of reactor 2 hit 160 millisieverts per hour! Radiation levels outside the basement door of reactor 3 are 75 millisieverts per hour. The radiation levels are too high for workers to continue with anymore work around those reactors!
Radiation levels must be lower in order for TEPCo’s plan to remove melted fuel can work.