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6 liters / 8.5 tons ?

Radioactive water leaking from inside Fukushima No. 4 reactor
"...about 6 liters of water were found to have leaked..."
mdn.mainichi.jp

TEPCO says 8.5 tons of water leaked from Fukushima No. 4 reactor
english.kyodonews.jp

I heard this on my SF news radio station then checked the web, "Small Radiation Amount 'Could Have' Escaped Plant" abcnews.go.com

a ps on the same subject from the same site: 'P.S. I just read a post by Ms. Emiko Numauchi as "Numayu" writing that there was nuclear fuel inside the Reactor Pressure Vessel of Reactor 4 and it had a meltdown, as she heard from a worker she trusts, and the English translation of the post by someone else.

If the fuel melted through the RPV and now on the floor of the Containment Vessel as she claims, I have no idea how the RPV/Reactor Well is able to retain water, as it clearly does, looking at the photographs. Of course she or anyone can claim they are fake photographs.

As for me, I want to find the facts as much as possible without resorting to calling everything fake. Even from TEPCO, the reporters on February 1 press conference were able to draw out more information than what TEPCO initially presented in the beginning of the press conference.' Sounds highly unlikely...but

@lillymunster 'WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
8.5 Tonnes of Water Leaked from Reactor Well/Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor 4 According to TEPCO
In the evening press conference on February 1, 2012 (with Matsumoto), TEPCO announced the result of their calculation: 8.5 tonnes of water from the Reactor Well/Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor 4 may have leaked (Jiji News, Japanese, 2/1/2012). Other than the information of the TEPCO's calculated number and the diameter of the pipe (9 millimeters), the details seem the same as I reported in my previous post.' ex-skf.blogspot.com I think he watches the news conferences & translates

@lillymunster @elainekirk I'll have a look thru the docs I saved too.....

@lillymunster will do - I'll check if I have things the site doesn't..BTW there was another 4.5 off the coast to east of Fuku around 3 hrs ago -fortunately a fair way out....

so far I've only found this from a Reuters report in March but it's hardly a smoking gun: 'Fukushima Daiichi had over time been pushing the limits of the plant's capacity to store uranium fuel on site, according to a Tokyo Electric presentation from November 2010 and now circulating among safety experts and environmental critics.
The Tokyo Electric researcher who prepared that presentation on the safety of spent fuel at the complex, Yumiko Kumano, could not be reached for comment. A spokesman for TEPCO declined to comment on its fuel storage decisions and whether they contributed to the crisis.
"Our focus now is on responding to the situation at Fukushima," he said.
The TEPCO presentation noted that the utility had taken steps to increase storage capacity for spent fuel at the plant complex beyond its original design. Those included "re-racking" the pools in the reactor buildings to increase their capacity and then building a separate large, pool outside and a separate hub of metal casks that do not need to rely on electricity.
But the only significant open space left for storage remained inside the reactor buildings, according to the document. TEPCO had the capacity to more than double the number of fuel assemblies stored in the reactors from 3,998 at the time of the quake to 8,310 assemblies.

@elainekirk glad to be able to find something useful for once!

On a slight tangent there's also this from the same doc which is complete gobbledy **** to me but Dean or someone will know '9 or more * Change Fuel concentration 1 × gadolinia 9 (B type)
Gadolinium (Gd) oxide compounds gadolinia (Gd2O3) concentration of
Uranium fuel currently being used (concentration gadolinia: about 3.0 to about 5.0wt%) have higher fuel (gadolinia concentration: about 5.0 to about 7.0wt%).
Gadolinia high neutron absorption capacity, but using a fuel containing uranium Gadolinia traditionally used by the high concentration of uranium Gadolinia, the degree of combustion reaction in the reactor plant operation has the effect easier to control than the control.

@elainekirk that's what I thought but my technical ignorance & the bad translation makes it hard to make sense of it

@UKVal , that atmos link does not seem to work.

@elainekirk @Peter sorry -It's from the doc I quoted which I have on my PC. I can't get it to work either & I don't have another...

@elainekirk not sure.. in terms of spent fuel those casks are supposed to be very strong. What we don't know is what else was there. Came across a presentation with a diagram of the possible route of gas from #3 to #4 that may have led to the explosion but I don't know how to post it.

@elainekirk I don't have that as an option IIRC it's only available for Mods.