Fukushima - they are planning to move fuel rods from the hottest spent storage pool in Nov. (scary)

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54. Even more hilarious... keep 'em coming.

Again.... no pics showing the pool #4 in depth, showing the conditions of the rods therein.

The rods are in bundles that are themselves enclosed within racks. If you could see the fuel rods, that would be evidence that something had happened. The fact that they're sitting right where they started proves that they didn't melt down (which wouldn't have been physically possible knowing what we know now - that the pool is intact).

Looking at the webcams one can see the heat signatures of the reactors/pools rising in the air. Given the right humidity and temperatures a nice radioactive fog forms.

Humidity and temperature produce radiation now? What you mean is that you imagine that it's radioactive... but we've already seen how far afield your imagination takes you sometimes... haven't we? Hey! Here's comes one now!

And there is the idea that the melted cores having burned down into the ground are acting like geysers which burp on occasion as geysers are wont to do.

Such "ideas" must be chemically-induced or from a dream state... Because they certainly aren't the result of scientific inquiry. All of the evidence to date says that 99%+ (probably > 99.9%) of the cores are either within the RPVs or on the floor of the primary containments. The most comprehensive simulation that I've seen implied that the corium in the worst-melted unit burned about 1/3 of the way (inches) through the first layer of concrete above the steel bottom of the contanment vessel (which is then above 25 additional feet of concrete).