The big question is how much of that salt is still mixed with water and how much now forms a crust on the uranium fuel rods.
主要的问题在于这些盐中又多少还溶于水中，又有多少现在在铀燃料棒表面形成了一层外壳。
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Because slumping fuel and salt from seawater that had been used as a coolant is probably blocking circulation pathways, the water flow in No. 1 “is severely restricted and likely blocked.
With hemp ropes and bamboo cables reaching deep into the ground, they employed cast iron drills to reach the natural gas they used as a fuel to evaporate water from brine to produce salt.