Uh, if they can get a camera in the debris-filled spent fuel pool of #3, surely they've already captured the area where the reactor resides on high definition film from just about every angle imaginable and know for a fact whether it's covered or not. TEPCO knows. Everyone else is in the dark...
Y'all should take ten minutes of your time and have a good look at Jim's photo analysis of the "Snaggleteeth", found here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/55934120/A-couple-of-Fukushima-Photos
Don't recall seeing any attention brought to that particular spot before in this thread.
Eh, come on. Given TEPCO's own statements concerning #1 in that WSJ article, do you really think any of those gauges can be trusted? #3 probably had a full meltdown after 16 hours as well, and the corium dropped through some time around the 21st of March when that thick black smoke appeared...
Gundersen has an axe to grind (although it might be a legitimate one at that).
Astronuc, any significance on higher cadmium 106 levels found in the US? All other isotopes of cadmium unchanged, but 106 was measured higher...
Cause of death was probably tsunami - victims showed lots of blood loss. Although, I don't recall hearing of two missing workers throughout this time, so I'm kinda surprised.