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JAIF report says water levels in #3 sfp is very low. Along with the allthingsnuclear story posted recently that they think the sfp in all are leaking due to the seals not being inflated. I think that is a significant issue they are not telling the public via the media.

@Karen So sorry for not being a perfect english speaker and writer. Maybe you can discuss this story with me in german? Eh? Thought so...

@Salvador: Did I say something that offended you? If so, not my intent, but apologies anyway... :-)

the yellow thing cannot be the vessel. it is too near to the wall. the vessel is right in the center of the building.

If that is the containment vessel, the spent fuel pool is destroyed it looks like, since it was above it.

@Karen Thanks for the help

it seems noboody knows anything....this is the tragedy

@ George Gibb, I do not doubt that the people on the ground at the plant are doing whatever is humanly possible to get the reactors under control. I sure hope they're getting as much support as possible. My concern is with the withholding of information that puts the public at risk. Radiactive contamination involves not just radiation levels, but also accumulation and time factors: Of course the evacuation zones are nowhere near large enough. People cannot make decisions if faced with situations outside their experiences. They have to rely on accurate information and disclosure in such cases. The Japanese government is very carefully not doing that. It lets TEPCO and NISA (etc.) carry the nuclear can and makes sympathetic noises, occasionally throwing a bone to the public, like the latest vid. It seems to work (see what happens?).

@Matsuoko Remember that the RPV in Unit 4 was empty.

I don't think it is blown off. it looks to me like it's where it should be, but you didn't think so, so... @Sin the spent fuel pool is next to the containment cap, according to diagram

@Salvador : yes, but nevertheless the inner vessel would be highly radioactive.

I'll look at vid again. see if it's just a matter of perspective, angle, whatever.

@All: Since getting up this a.m. this AP report is the first indication I've seen that TEPCO can't use the condenser tanks to store the leaked, contiminated water

some history on tepco: wow ~ what a fall. and i believe thus publication leans right...http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/the_fall_of_the_house_of_tepco.html

Yellow vessel top. See www.anengineerindc.com and scroll down to graphic. Yellow vessel top in photo definitely not where it should be.

@Cup Thought reactor 4 was empty and open for maintenance - meaning the containment cap had been taken off intentionally some time before the quake (and reactor was empty) (?).

@Salvador I'm pretty sure, having looked again at picture posted below, that it is the containment cap. look to what would be it's right (the back part of pic) and you can see the dark hole indicated on FB diagram that's on either side of it. Don't know if it's the sppent fuel pool or not. But they probably had a live feed to chopper and directed him what to look at/for, so prob. significant.

Tepco is wrong here, wrong there, "maybe" their comments are incorrect, "however" they try to find out ... -> Why aren't there other organizations/companies assisting Tepco? Maybe even proving them in case it is that difficult to read. We are now two weeks after the accident. In such a situation one source is inadequate after such a long time.