{"id":1884,"date":"2011-04-15T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T16:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2011-04-15T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T16:34:23","slug":"japanese-official-say-hole-in-reactor-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/japanese-official-say-hole-in-reactor-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Official Say Hole In Reactor &#8220;Likely&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/reactor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1885\" title=\"reactor\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/reactor-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/reactor-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/reactor-342x299.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/reactor.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Five weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami ravaged the  northeastern coast of Japan, there is no sign that the resulting nuclear  crisis is close to resolution. The country\u2019s Nuclear and Industrial  Safety Agency now says it is \u201chighly likely\u201d the suppression unit of  reactor No.2 has a hole in it, probably the result of one of \u00a0the explosions  that have occurred at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The crippled reactor also has a basement full of highly radioactive  water, as much as 20,000 tons. In fact, so much contaminated water has  accumulated that engineers are investigating other ways to keep the  reactor core cool. Tests on the spent fuel rods will determine if they  are leaking radiation.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation zone around the Fukushima-Daiichi plant was expanded  earlier this week, and the crisis was elevated to a level 7, putting it  on par with the Chernobyl accident. The total cost of the multiple  disasters is now estimated to be $300 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami ravaged the northeastern coast of Japan, there is no sign that the resulting nuclear crisis is close to resolution. The country\u2019s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1039,1038,828,1041,829,1040,1037],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-fukushima-daiichi","tag-hole","tag-japan","tag-level-7","tag-nuclear","tag-plant","tag-reactor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}