Might be fewer people stupidly insisting Nuclear power is safe now...
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Horace Heffner <[email protected]>wrote: > The following provides a good cutaway view of the type of reactors at > Fukushima nuclear power plant. > > > http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_earthquake_reactors_1203111.html > > http://tinyurl.com/4f8y2we > > It also provides information as to the fate of some of the unfortunate > workers. "A seriously injured worker was trapped within Fukushima Daiichi > unit 1 in the crane operating console of the exhaust stack and is now > confirmed to have died." > > If you look at the cutaway view in the above, and the post explosion photo > of the site: > > > http://gakuranman.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fukushima-before-after-429x650.jpg > > http://tinyurl.com/4z6ccae > > it is clear the crane was located up in the the top of the building. It > appears there was crane access to some kind of control rod storage located > in the upper right side of the cutaway drawing. It is difficult to tell if > anything remains of this storage area or the crane in the after photo. It > looks like no siding remains, only steel beams. > > Many of the new reports talk of "crumbled" roof or walls. This appears to > be a great distortion. The explosion shock wave, and large chunks of debris > flying 100's of meters up and to the left and right can be seen in the > video: > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjx-JlwYtyE > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > >
