“Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen testifies to the NRC Petition Review Board detailing why the 23 BWR Mark 1 nuclear power plants should be shut down following the accidents at Fukushima. True wisdom means knowing when to modify something and knowing when to stop. Sometimes, all the King’s horses and all the King’s men should not try to put Humpty Dumpty together again,” states the Fairewinds website’s description for this video that was filmed on Oct. 7.

At 3:15 in [Transcript Excerpt]:

“Control rods enter through holes in bottom of reactor vessel. This presents a myriad of opportunities for melted core material to leak directly out of the reactor onto the containment floor. I believe this is exactly what occurred at Fukushima.”
[link to fairewinds.com] ... -kings-men

Ok, isn't this the ablation that Monkeyfister & I kicked around way back in March? Ablation is the melt through of the concrete floor. At that time we figured about 8 days.