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This is about Unit 3? Thanks in advance for clarification.

Thank you all. You and your posts continue to be of great help to a lay(wo)man like me to get and hold on to a grasp of at least the basics of what's going on. Much appreciated!

I am puzzled by this. I could have sworn this was discussed in this thread quite a while back, but I sure as heck can't find it now. Of course, I could have read it elsewhere but one way or another this was not news to me. Anyone else surprised by this being news now or am I just losing my mind...

Sorry for the wholly unscientific questions, but ... Assuming fuel removal goes well at the Unit 4 pool, does TEPCO then still have to build a similar structure(s) for Unit 3 or otherwise reconstruct the fuel removal equipment to remove the pool contents? What about Unit 1 and 2's building...

Okay, so we have had slightly rising temperatures in June/July, subsequently a chiller installed, and then deliberately reduced water injection rates at stable temperatures. At the end of August, we have injections rates that inexplicably dropped below the required amounts and, one has to...

No takers or too dumb or complicated a question? Thanks.

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how they measure injection rates given that they can't actually look inside the reactors and see what arrives inside the vessel. And not knowing exactly where the core(s) is (are) and temperature gauges not necessarily working well or at all, I somehow...

As long as it is Tepco (or any other NPP operator) who makes investigations and provides statements that employee health problems/deaths are not radiation-related, they are, imho, pretty much meaningless. Too much self-interest involved. In fact, the entire accident management and mitigation...

As far as I'm concerned, that statement hits the nail on the head. If nothing else, Japan has - unfortunately - the opportunity and technology to do extensive studies, and it doesn't seem to be happening. Or at least not publicly, anyway (that I know of). Why on Earth wouldn't deaths be further...

I can't read Japanese, but EX-SKF blog reported/commented on the Mainichi Shinbun article(s) regarding the death, according to which TEPCO announced the cause as myocardial infarction. Personally, I would like to see an autopsy as to what caused the heart attack. The information TEPCO apparently...

Thanks a bunch, tsutsuji!

What kind of specialist(s) would that be? (Sorry, I don't speak Japanese and would be grateful for the additional info.) Thanks.

I cannot comment on the author's intention, but I disagree with the focus having been skewed. 20,000 deaths due to a natural disaster are indeed absolutely horrible, just as is the fate of many, if not all the survivors. Nonetheless, however tragic the casualties are, one has to accept that it...

Am also a lurker and a complete nontechnical person. Apart from the difficulty of the process and the destroyed equipment/more or less improvised new equipment, I believe to remember that, per regulations, the used fuel rods have to be cooled a certain number of years in the pool before they are...