Recent content by fusefiz

This may well be a naive reaction, but it seems to me that the obvious thing to do with the radioactively contaminated water in the turbine buildings is to pump it back into the reactors. Is there something wrong with that action? If/when they are able to re-establish core cooling, perhaps...

| http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/world/asia/26japan.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all A senior nuclear executive who insisted on anonymity but has broad contacts in Japan said that there was a long vertical crack running down the side of the reactor vessel itself. The crack runs down below the...

| http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/25_10.html The company says 3.9 million becquerels of radioactive substances per cubic centimeter were detected in the water that the workers were standing in. That is 10,000 times higher than levels of the water inside a nuclear reactor in operation...

| http://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/fukushimadata Press Release U.S. Department of Energy Releases Radiation Monitoring Data from Fukushima Area Mar 22, 2011 Today the U.S. Department of Energy released data recorded from its Aerial Monitoring System as well as ground detectors...

Where did UCS/All Things Nuclear find their information for the number of fuel elements in reactor 4's spent fuel pool? From memory, I believe their first number referenced two newspaper articles in Japanese. Again, from memory, I believe this was the number picked up by the NY Times (1479): |...

IR for reactor 3 -- I believe this indicates 62 C over the fuel pool, 128 C on the other side of the reactor head: | http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/01340/Fukushima_hoch_DW__1340857z.jpg Interesting picture here -- I do not believe the crane and cars are at reactor ground level, but...

If water has been covering the fuel in the reactor 4 pool, what could have generated the hydrogen? I have been reading this thread for most of the week and wondering myself. Today I discovered the French analysis, which is the most coherent treatment I have found. I have almost no time now...