Humankind’s Most Dangerous Moment: Fukushima Fuel Pool at Unit 4

[AtheistCrusader]

47. I don't imagine they are going to be able to get out all of the rods

in a standard way. Some of them probably won't draw out of the racks properly. They are going to have setbacks and have to improvise. But I think they can get the bulk of it out without too much fuss.

Here's what bugs me, even if it goes 99.9% right, and there's just some damaged bits left behind, the people like Gunderson are going to how 'SEE WE WERE RIGHT'. It's practically a cowardly position to take, knowing that SOMETHING is going to go wrong, given the state of the fuel, and the gantry that fell into the pool, not to mention the pieces of the building that fell in... They are practically guaranteed to have something to bitch about, and that's really unfortunate. TEPCO could really use a win here. And so could everyone living downwind.

I don't pretend that I can 'tamp down' the horde, it just really bugs me, and I wish the situation was otherwise... I also don't imagine that a petition or whatever is going to delay them one second. What would the world do? Invade them to stop them? Economic sanctions?

This is an easy feat, compared to whats coming up in the reactors themselves. The cores are FAR worse than 3 mile island was. Fixing that... emptying the damaged fuel/corium... There, we need technological and procedural advances bordering on the euphemistic 'miracle'.

Let's see what they do, how it goes. If they can't clear the pool, then we know for sure if they can do anything about the reactors themselves.

Let's hope for a win.