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one interesting observation I've discovered.. Plant #4 supposedly had no fuel in the reactor and the reactor was in shutdown mode. Since this was the case they should have been able to send a team of people in to inspect for damage from the earthquake on the facility with the intent of uncovering some common mode failure that could have happened in the other plants.. I've not heard this was done

@dean there have been no announced attempts to enter 4 by humans or robots at all.

"Results of Airborne Monitoring by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy", in the pinned list, has decent graphs, description of what was done.

As usual, the JAIF earthquake report is a good capture of the things NHK has posted. "Generator trucks proved useless at Fukushima plant" ... "The utility says a switchboard for the No.2 reactor was finally wired to one of the
generator trucks about 24 hours after the disaster.
But moments later, a hydrogen explosion at the neighboring No.1 reactor fried
the wiring and cut off the power supply from the truck.
Another hydrogen explosion 2 days later at the No.3 reactor damaged generator
vehicles with chunks of flying concrete.
Electricity was finally restored to the plant through the regular power grid on
March 21st --- 10 days after the quake and tsunami."

@nancy has it.

But you will find it very interesting!

daiichi AT gmx DOT com is fine to send them to. It's a special fukushima-specific email I set up.

@hudebnik - working on getting those PDF's online. Making an index of them. I didn't catch what they are. Is it plant stats? New ones from yesterday?

TEPCO documents reveal chaos at Fukushima nuke plant after quake, tsunami mdn.mainichi.jp "The power-source trucks (to supply the reactors with outside power) are stuck in traffic!"

"We've given up on venting operations (to lower reactor vessel pressure). The radiation is just too high."

Cooling system of Fukushima plant's No. 1 reactor not functioning before tsunami mdn.mainichi.jp (yes, I'm doing some of today's articles, updating the News page on the wiki.)

@nancy - the PDFs are downloads from Tepco's Japanese status page, www.tepco.co.jp Fukushima Daiichi section.

@RBeaner grabbed those photo links. Will go through them and see what we don't already have. BTW, I think I will start archiving more of the humanitarian images. They don't specifically fit with reactor forensics but will come in handy for the people working the humanitarian side of things

Looks as if Tepco's (information) containment has finally failed...

@Nancy The Humans, are the only reason we care about the Nuclear stuff!

@hudebnik the historical data pdf files are now online here www.houseoffoust.com

@Markfm um, that is major. Now they are saying structural issues at the other 3? I don't think they would be doing that unless there are some major problems.

Worker error may have led to meltdown search.japantimes.co.jp "NISA, the government agency that oversees nuclear plant operators, urged Tepco on Tuesday to provide a detailed explanation by May 23....A worker may have stopped the condenser to keep cold water from coming into contact with the hot steel of the reactor to prevent it from being damaged....However, nuclear reactors are designed to withstand this procedure in case of an emergency, said Hiromi Ogawa, a former nuclear plant engineer at Toshiba Corp."

Censorship?? this was supposed to be a youtube video "First video of Reactor 3 at the Fukushima" comment by Subhas Kumar Ghosh at 3/14/2011 3:03:49 AMSunday, March 13, 2011 11:03:49 PM
From the old reuters blog

@nancy You still hungry, for data..bunch of pics from 3/14 english.kyodonews.jp and a couple o0f tsunami videos www.gizmodo.com.au and this one,( I like the backgound alarms) www.youtube.com