Reactor Core At Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant May Have Been Breached

According to the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/reactor-core-breach-japan-fukushima-daiichi_n_840449.html:

Japanese nuclear safety officials said Friday that they suspect that the reactor core at one unit of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may have breached, raising the possibility of more severe contamination to the environment.

"It is possible that somewhere at the reactor may have been damaged," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency. But he added that "our data suggest the reactor retains certain containment functions," implying that the damage may have occurred in Unit 3's reactor core but that it was limited.

Now I could be wrong but I sure have been getting the impression that the "Japanese nuclear safety officials" are trying very hard to not alarm the public by not revealing any more information than they feel they absolutely must.  A reactor core breach isn't the kind of thing that they're likely to be at all uncertain about, but they are qualifying it as if they're not sure.  And saying "our data suggest the reactor retains certain containment functions" sounds like they're trying to make the case that it's not so bad because gee at least SOME of the core hasn't gone up in radioactive smoke yet.

Eventually we will learn of course what was really going on and when.  I just hope we are warned appropriately beforehand by SOMEONE along the way for example when our nation's dairy supply becomes contaminated with radioiodine and maybe even radiostrontium.  As it certainly will, it is only a question of how much.