There is something you're forgetting though and that is MOX.
Reactor 3 is a MOX reactor.
MOX (mixed oxide) is 2,000,000 times more lethal than the typical enriched uranium in the other reactors.A single milligram (mg) of MOX is as deadly as 2,000,000 mg of normal enriched uranium.
MOX has twice the exposure rates of uranium and 4 times the affected area.
When a uranium rod is spent it is then removed and disposed of as nuclear waste but the rods in a MOX fuelled reactor are removed and reused. The plutonium from used rods is mixed with new uranium then put into the reactor.
All the used rods are stored in a containment area on a level above the reactor...the exact same level that exploded. Apparently the spent rod area in Reactor 4 is on fire as well and they are now reporting that the containment area for the MOX rods is fully exposed.
Its a lot worse than just pumping water...
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