Insight to Fukushima engineering challenges (Very useful material)

[FBaggins]

Note that the first section of the article is about Fukushima Daini, not Daiichi.

The piece confirms that it was the tsunami that caused the bulk of the crisis, not the earthquake directly.

Official notices of the accidents at the Fukushima nuclear power plants give insight into the challenges faced by power plant engineers in the aftermath of last week's natural disasters.

Eight separate ratings on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) have now been logged with the International Atomic Energy Agency by the Japanese government. One covers the effect of the earthquake on Japan's nuclear power plants as a whole, putting it as level 3 - a 'serious incident' - because of the eventual need to declare technical emergencies at Fukushima Daiichi and Daini.

The remainder of the nuclear crisis has its origins specifically in the tsunami that followed. Information accompanying the ratings gives insight into the starting point of the crisis and the technical challenges faced by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Insight_to_Fukushima_engineering_challenges_1803112.html

[bananas]

1. Nuclear lobbyist organization, presume bullshit. nt

[FBaggins]

2. Notice the difference?

I reply to your OPs by pointing out where they got their facts wrong and/or what given levels of radiation mean from a risk standpoint.

You look at the source and say "don't like them... they must be lying".

Don't you think you should oppose with some facts in hand? Was there something in the article that you have reason to dispute?

[bananas]

4. Yes - you reply to my OPs by getting your facts wrong.

Yes, I've noticed that.

[SpoonFed]

5. +1

Does anyone else have a twinge of suspicion with regards to the IAEA and the leader is also Japanese. I feel horrible to suggest that there may be some nationalistic interests or bias at heart with the dude, but the possibility is not zero. The IAEA has modified it's data for #4 at last check..

They have changed the data from 84 degrees, 84 degrees, no data. To just 84 degrees on the 13th.
No data. Yeah, no data cause it blew up and is rubble.

[ClarkUSA]

3. True. Nuclear facilities also close to the epicenter but not hit by the tsunami are fine.