Most of the motors and swithcboards have been ruined by Tsunami

[kristopher]

The electicity is going to be of little help unless they can repair them.

They are going to park pumper at the ocean, manually haul a large hose to the another truck near #3 and get a steady flow going. They "might" be getting some cooling where they are directing the water.

NHK

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. thanks

for the update. :( How depressing.

[DCKit]

2. Sure, but "Who could have seen this coming?"

:sarcasm:

[madokie]

3. It sure doesn't look good does it

I like the way that its always just around this corner here and everything will be a-ok. Trouble is it never seems that we/they can get around that corner.

I feel so bad for the Japanese people because something tells me the government there controls the message a lot closer than our government does so they have no idea, as neither do we, what the hell is going on.
With nuclear energy when something goes wrong if you weren't a witness to it chances are that what you'll come to know of it will be the best spin they, the nuke boys, can possibly put on it.

[kristopher]

4. The situation sounds chaotic.

Plans are ahifting rapidly and the announcers sound pretty frustrated and angry at thinking one thing is going on one moment only to be told everything is different. They keep saying the government needs to give more information.

This is summary, not trans.

[madokie]

5. This mess will never be cleaned up

We can do better than nuclear energy for our electrical power but I'm not so sure that the world will be able to deal with these old nuclear power plants. All the areas where they are sited at some point will have to be roped off so man or beast can't get near them or shouldn't be allowed to get near them. I guess it depends on the next crop of leaders as to where we go from here as the present ones have no clue what to do now. They've made a big mess of things and I doubt they will ever admit it.
Just give a thought to all the energy that has been wasted on trying to put lipstick on this nuclear pig.

[FBaggins]

6. You raise an interesting point

I like the way that its always just around this corner here and everything will be a-ok.

True. There are eternal optimists. Any time you have a list of failures this long, you're going to go through one unlikely step to another.

But take a look at the other side's predispositions. When cooling originally failed it was "they're not going to be able to stop catastophe". Then there was no way that containment was going to hold once part of fuel rods were exposed. Then it was going to be worse than Chernobyl.

When all but 50 workers were evacuated that was the end game. Those 50 were already dead me walking and nobody would be able to return. Every time there's a transient spike of radiation (when steam is released from one of the units), that level is treated as the new norm.

Everything is assumed to be 10-1,000 times worse than what is reported.

With nuclear energy when something goes wrong if you weren't a witness to it chances are that what you'll come to know of it will be the best spin they, the nuke boys, can possibly put on it.

Wow... that nuke industry must be masters of the world! Thousands of people with radiation monitors and these guys are able to fake results all accross the country and get everyone else to lie for them? Stunning.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. TEPCO got caught falsifying data, turns out.

THE Japanese owner of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant falsified safety data and "dishonestly" tried to cover up problems there.

Tokyo Electric Power Co injected air into the containment vessel of Fukushima reactor No 1 to artificially “lower the leak rate”. When caught, the company expressed its “sincere apologies for conducting dishonest practices”.

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