Subscribe RSSPipes and grates propitious the reactor’s containment vessel were seen in some images. Other photos were dark and blurry, resembling pr paintings. Experts are studying the most obscured photos to identify which reactor parts are there. Radiation was visible as difficulties, or electronic interference with the equipment being used.
The photos also showed the inner wall of the container had been heavily deteriorated by the leading temperatures and humidity, Matsumoto said.
TEPCO workers inserted the endoscope — an industrial view of the kind of endoscope doctors use — through a hole in the beaker-shaped container at the Fukushima Dai-ichi equipment’s No. 2 reactor, hoping the first look inside since the crisis would help them better assess reactor conditions and turn up tell of repairs.
High temperatures and radiation leaks had prevented the close-up view until now. Results of the 70-flash operation were mixed.
“Given the harsh environment that we had to operate, we did quite well. It’s a first step,” Matsumoto said. “But we could not whiteheads any signs of fuel, unfortunately.”
