Posted on 08/30/2014 5:38:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Exactly. Another word sodomized by so-called journalists. Heavy equipment includes cranes, crawlers, and the like, not some 900# part.
This sounds like it was a tool being used to remove or move spent fuel rods in the pool (if that is the “pool” being referred to here). Not a problem, except for those extra 400kg of dead weight that could comprise the structure of the damaged pool. Sounds like something to keep an eye on. If the crane over the pool is damaged they will need to spend a lot more money and time to build a new one. I have a hard time thinking a chain or coupling or hook made the thing break and fall. The entire crane assembly may be damaged, and this means that the work to remove the spent fuel is delayed and compromised. What we don’t want to hear about, is if the pool collapses. That would be major suckage.
Nice catch, FRiend. But the article DID mention the volume of the equipment. I can call safe on the no detected water level change for equipment that small. I’m certain it was some kind of robot.
What is the Japanese word for “Ooops”?
A 400kg “operating console” sounds like bullshit though. There is some obfuscation going on here. An operating console is usually a 2kg laptop computer. This thing was a crane part.
No China syndrome at Fukushima. It is a Pacific syndrome. They built the facility over an aquifer.
And betting this isn’t the first thing that’s fallen in.
To be fair, of the 3 nuclear reactor cores washing into the Pacific ocean on a daily basis for the past 3 years, some of that material continues to generate enough heat to cause steam and may slowly be edging down toward China. Who knows, maybe a little of the 3 nuclear cores won’t end up in the Pacific...
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