TEPCO said Wednesday that its new estimate shows that all the fuel rods in reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant apparently melted down and fell onto the bottom of the containment vessel. enenews.com Trenches filled with thousands of tons of plutonium contaminated liquid at Fukushima are leaking into the Pacific Ocean. enenews.com Rosatom reported last week that China has invited the Russian state-controlled nuclear power firm to build new reactors at an inland site. nuclearstreet.com Loving County in remote West Texas is the latest community to consider hosting the type of interim spent fuel storage facility supported by the Obama administration as an alternative to the mothballed Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada. nuclearstreet.com
