Tepco did not fail to anticipate current circumstances, they failed to implement. Safety standards for the current crisis were rejected in favor of a less severe tsunami projection. Your anger at them not being prepared is noted but to use an American phrase, that horse has left the barn...
Understood. But the exposed molten material is dripping into the containment filled with water in small portions, not in one 50-100 ton mass. Will that make a difference?
If the majority of the large mass is still in the RPV, is there a possibility it could burn through the bottom in...
But the "lump" is already sitting in a pool of water with no steam explosion. If it has been dripping through the holes in the RPV until now, and even if it drops in a lump, it still is going from one water medium to another. Would a steam explosion require a dry lump of corium super heated to...
It's quiet again now. Strange how all 3 could be actively chugging then go mum at the same time. But I'll mention again it's the first time I saw so much smoke coming out of the north or northwest area of #3. If you use the tower a ref point, it was obscured but clearly emanating from...
When I tried to bring up the JNN YouTube feed it says "Live Feed Over". However, this is a Newsslice page on wordpress that is still up, don't know exactly where they are getting the feed from JNN...I'm guessing it's live. I haven't noticed any correlation between reactor action and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FptmoVcgpqg"
2, 3 and 4 puffing away like locomotives...
Anyone want to comment on why #3 appears to be smoking from the north end of the building? It's hard to tell with the wind blowing but at this time of day the prevailing winds...
I think "seldom" is the functional word in your sentence. With the monsoon season upon them Japan's luck at having most of their atomospheric radiation ending up in Alaska, Canada and the West Coast may be at an end. All it will take for a major league size panic in Tokyo is two blows...one...
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_02.html"
Radioactive water leaked while being transferred
Interesting comments;
"Tokyo Electric Power Company says an operation to transfer highly radioactive water pooled in the turbine building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's...
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_03.html"
No.1 reactor is in a "meltdown" state
Salient comments;
"Tokyo Electric Power Company says the No.1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is believed to be in a state of "meltdown"."
"But it suspects the meltdown created...
Of course not, the pics were quite disorderly. But how does a disorderly scene above the FR assemblies imply fuel rod damage? The inference is stuff fell into the pool and settled on top of the FRA.
There has been a couple references to equipment falling into the #3SFP and breaking the fuel rods but I don't see it. They look pretty well set in their assemblies, they weren't laying crossways in the pool and even heavy pieces would lose a considerable amount of their weight in water. Are...
Based on this new information from #1, can anyone explain the supposed pressure drop when tepco began filling the PCV and subsequent decision to slow the water fill so as not to create a possible explosive situation where the pressure inside was lower than outside causing oxygen to be introduced...