Thanks MagicSmoker but I have noticed that the before and after pics concentrate on the impact of the tsunami on various locations. For the Fukushima plant we are of course now further with the before and after situation. On 13 March 16:17 I have posted my own before and after pictures on this...
As far as I understand from various news sources the spent fuel is kept in the secondary buildings, under water in large basins. At present there is a storage of 20 years (!) of spent fuel rods in the Fukushima NPP. The spent fuel basin in the number 4 building dried up and the fire started.
So...
First, thank you all for the information you have shared so far. It has helped in understanding what is going on at the Fukushima NPP.
Here are links to digital globe that has excellent images from after the latest explosion at reactor 3. The damage to this building seems more extensive then...
Thanks alehman for the interesting link. I have studied the image of the situation after the tsunami and came to some maybe interesting conclusions. I took a screen shot of the plants 1-4 buildings and compared this to the situation before the tsunami.
I have marked the "after" screen shot and...
For those interested there is a Wiki page on this plant which is updated with the latest news on the explosion. Follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant
And further, could it be that the SoS Hillary Clinton referred to helping the Japanese out with Borid...
Now I get confused by trottiey's reply to the hydrogen cooling issue of generators. Doing some "googling" I have found numerous examples of large generators with hydrogen cooling.
ABB has a whole range of these with the appropriate Gas Analyzer Systems for Hydrogen-cooled Alternators. Go to...
There is much confusion in the press due to the information that "the plant is in battery controlled cooling mode" Running large cooling pumps on batteries is virtually impossible.
What really happens is that the emergency cooling system pumps are driven by the remaining steam from the plant...
