Fukushima: Reactor 4 is FALLING APART

[TheMadMonk]

12. An INDEPENDENTLY ACCREDITED expert?

Or self accredited?

If the fuel has not melted through by now it never will.

The "hottest" isotopes, have had long enough to decay and cool down to the point where they can barely heat coffee.

That doesn't mean that a physical collapse of the structure wouldn't create a huge mess, and quite possibly raise a cloud of dust. However, since the crap is relatively cold, it is also consolidated, so little of it will travel an enormous distance.


Right from the beginning, the problems here have been made worse for the wider community by attempting to maximise safety for those in immediate contact with the crisis. And pretty much every time the result was greater harm to the wider community.

The US fleet in port could have provided emergency power before the batteries failed. Instead they bolted for the high seas.

Earlier and more frequent steam venting directly to atmosphere, would have kept the cores cool enough to prevent meltdown at the expense of very short term (minutes to hours) localised contamination. Instead smaller quantities of steam mixed with hydrogen were contained inside the buildings. The steam condensed and the hydrogen exploded.

Today contaminated water could be put through an evaporator and vented directly to atmosphere, (or better bubbled into the ocean). The steam would be radioactive for only a very short time, and the actual contaminants would be concentrated in a far more easily handled form. But instead exmptions to dump highly contaminated water have been sought, approved, protested, reversed and revised.

Time and time again the impossible has been attempted in recovery and instead the results have been the disastrously possible.