Okay, be kind to me. Remember, I'm an accountant and a female at that. My gut instinct sees a mess and wants it cleaned. Is the reason they haven't gotten a crane in there and lifted off some of the debris because it's too radioactive and they would have to use a cutting torch to do it...
No real reference...it was just from the article posted above. I was just reading it thinking...how high was it 10 days earlier if these numbers are correct.
Okay, I'm blonde and maybe I just don't get it...but in the article above it says
"According to Kakizawa, one worker at the Shika Nuclear Power Plant operated by Hokuriku Electric Power Co. in Ishikawa Prefecture returned to his home in Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13 and stayed...
I'm glad they responded to it...even if I don't necessarily trust them. I was watching at the time are talking about and it looked like black smoke as it moved past the towers. Pics were posted here about it over the weekend. The pics posted today made me think it was fog.
I never saw where this was answered so I thought I'd help you out. If you look at the "round area" you will see where the metal is pointing downward like it wants to go inside the "hole" that would be bent in. If it were point upward, that would be bent out.
That said, I don't see were...
Unlurk, I was watching about the time those stills were taken. it was odd because I'm used to the puffs of steam coming out regulary, but there was nothing. Then very suddenly 3 and 4 both got very busy. At first I thought it was fog because it can be pretty random, but then it cleared up...
I'm just a CPA that has a strong interest in science and has been lurking here...but I do have a question. How did they vent the units without power? Was there a manual way to do it that was still operational?