Ah, ha. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, you can see the video of
the Kashiwazaki reactor leak here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyaSouC4rjo
This is a Japanese broadcast so let me note some of the items shown,
by time (min:sec):
0:33 Workman cleaning up radioactive water from spill.
0:41 Pile of used sponges. This is low-level radwaste.
0:44 to 0:58 From reactor unit 3, two surveillance camera shots
showing the water being agitated and splashed around by the earthquake.
1:01 From reactor unit 6, the broken overhead crane, "which
demonstrates how violent the earthquake was" (announcer).
Here is another interesting video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_sdm-xMEw
A lot more interesting if you understand Japanese, I guess. Again,
notation by time:
0:00 A lady announcer with the same first name as my wife. (!) (Not
that unusual) This is day 6 after the earthquake.
0:16 Announcer (Mr. Suyama) saying, "you can see that the damage is a
lot worse than was imagined . . ."
0:30 Tokyo Electric Power guy saying the pool was on the fourth
floor. Waving his arms describing the water slopping around, and
compares it to a tsunami.
0:45 interesting shots of the inside of the plant. "Here we see some
of the water that is spilled out of the spent fuel rod pool." In this
area, 1.5 liters were spilled.
0:55 Guy showing a meter with 0.000 micro-Sv radiation.
1:02 The remains of the burned transformer outside unit 3. The ground
in this area fell by 30 cm.
1:11 Another place where the earth sank 1.6 m! And they said there
were no faults in this area . . .
1:20 Experts sitting around a table trying to reassure "dubious"
local people and officials that everything is hunky-dory.
- Jed
