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@dean The only item we have against #3 blowing the containment cap is pressure readings. We also know they can be wrong or falsified so it certainly isn't off the table IMHO.

Camera still showing a lot of smoke?

@Reed I think this is what your looking for : www.tepco.co.jp

@Reed I think it was at least 2 weeks ago.

@Nancy It doesn't take that long to buld one across such a small harbor. Why do you think it isn't completed given the necessity of the situation?

@Reed I don't think they started it or gave up on it. They mentioned it and then next thing was the silt fence, plates in front of the outlets and filter media bags dropped into the inlet areas. I have seen that crane barge in a few tepco cam shots but never seen any real progress on it and not press photos of it being worked on or done.

@Nancy : not quite. i refer to the fact that prior to building a nuclear reactor accident scenarios are taken into account, including deaths in population and homelesses due to evacuation. these scenarios are a "bult-in" risk and they are evaluated in an economic way.

@dean : i think your brilliant scientists have their own conscience and i hope they sleep well. most of them will just not think about what they are doing, they do their job for money, that's all.

@Nancy : "A nuke plant is pretty safe when it is running properly." i hope so, but i am not convinced. but what happens to the waste it produces,even if working properly ?

@Edano that is a problem they should have been forced to solve before the first plant was allowed to run commercially IMHO. Then there are issues like the flaws found in the GE Mark 1 reactors that have been ignored for decades. They are now coming home to roost. Other industries have toxic pollutants they dispose of in irresponsible ways, they just happen to manifest in different ways and have different impacts than reactor waste. If I had my way every Mark 1 BWR in the world would be shut down. They are old and highly flawed. They also need to do something about the uncontained fuel pools. I see for now nuclear power something we will be stuck with for a while until we improve our energy system. I have less of an issue with newer plants with hopefully better design. But the corporate culture across industries and world wide must be forced to change and have better accountability.

@Nancy [opinion] any nuke technologie to be banned from planet.

The truth is that the spike in radiation in the sea water is due to “fizzle” explosions from the burning cores caused by plutonium separating out and reaching critical state. The Neutron beams that are being detected confirm this is actually happening. The spikes in the radioactivity measured in the water will continue to fluctuate as the fizzle explosions occur. Cooling the melted mess that were formerly reactors will take months because it is not obvious how they can actually be cool manually now that they have been completely destroyed. So of course that will take time. In addition the heat levels will be sure to rise as the fizzle explosions continue while the cores descend pumping massive amounts of super heated, vapourised, radioactive and gasified earth into the biosphere. That alone is causing the most headaches for scientists and engineers as they try to figure out how to cap what are now chimneys created by the melted cores as they descend to the mantle. yeswaterisfuel.com

@dean : ..... and research (in physics).

elementar physics.