TEPCO: reactor damage includes holes

TEPCO: reactor damage includes holes

The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says data analyses suggest damage to its reactors may have caused cracks and openings in the reactor containment vessels equivalent to a 10-centimeter hole.

Reactors 1 through 3 at the plant suffered nuclear fuel meltdowns after the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. This is likely to have created holes and cracks at the bottom of the pressure vessels protecting the reactor cores and damaged the containment vessels.

Massive amounts of highly radioactive water also leaked from the structures.

... The utility said holes and cracks equivalent to 10 centimeters in diameter may have formed in the Number 2 reactor's containment vessel about 21 hours after the quake. It said a similar amount of holes could have been created in the suppression pool chamber by an explosion heard coming from there on March 15th...


http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/25_20.html

This is all inferred from other data, obviously no measurements have been obtained through actual inspection of the reactors.

RPV and Containment, and reactor 1 or 2. Reactor 2 is the reactor where it has been generally accepted that the suppression pool was damaged by the explosion. (Further bolstered by it's inability to hold pressure, since)

This is the first suggestion I have seen that the suppression pool on reactor 1 is damaged, and I suspect it is a mistake/error in the statement. Reactor 1 has been holding pressure. As has 3.

But reactor 2 is clearly in bad shape.

Do you?

Obviously you are still intent on defending the indefensible.

I could speculate all day on ways that do not imply a hole in the suppression pool on reactor 1.

I will wait till they KNOW where the water is going.

This is nothing more than a stupid internet game to you, is it? The human impact is something that you feel not at all.

whether or not reactors 1 and 3 have damaged suppression pools.

You are not inside my head, do not pretend you know my motives, and how I feel.

and an unknown number of humans.

How much of a corrupt shill does that make me? Come on, let's get a running tally going here.

showing that you care whit 1 about the tens of thousands who died from the earthquake and tsunami.

That is... if you're setting the standard that your "stupid internet games" are the gold standard for human caring.

Is that really what you intend?

On the other hand, that is ALL you are here for - to defend and minimize the effects of the multiple nuclear power plant meltdowns that have severely and negatively impacted the ability to respond to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami.

I don't expect you to understand the difference, but people with ethics and the ability to experience empathy see it clearly.

At least... you are by the double standard you're trying to use here.

to defend and minimize the effects of the multiple nuclear power plant meltdowns that have severely and negatively impacted the ability to respond to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami.



Oh give us all a break. There's hardly any impact on the ability to respond to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami except in the area right around the reactors.

Japan isn't a 3rd world country. They can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Nor have I "minimized" anything. That's the point you're missing with your replies to the other poster. Correcting your wild OVERestimates of damage is not the same thing as minimizing.

In fact I find him to be pretty much right on. I've followed up on a few things hes posted and he always is right on, you on the other hand is nothing but a shill for the nuclear industry. Thats how I see it, thats how I read it.
What you think about them apples mr Baggins :rofl:

Yeah... I find that real persuasive. :sarcasm:

Forgive me... But anyone who reads that this is going to harm every living cell on the planet and decides "yeah... That makes sense"'is NOT someone I want to find myself agreeing with too often. :)

Sony worry. I'm sure that you make sense on other subjects (as does Kris). Just a great big blind spot.

Yes I agree with that