[napscoordinator]

lol. The article in 2004 would have been Japan’s Nuclear problem, is President Bush partly to blame. What a crock. Presidents today get blamed for everything. Sarah better get used to it.

[Nachum]

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[txroadkill]

I find this hard to believe, mainly because it violates long standing Obama policy

[SonOfDarkSkies]

If it's true it stands alone as grounds for impeachment and dismembering every single federal agency involved of Obama.

[atc23]

Even I am skeptical of this report and I loathe this administration as much as anybody.

I have been puzzled as to why the US never flew in some big diesel gens and large storage tanks filled with fuel to get (hopefully) cooling pumps back on line. As well, the US could have (it seems) flown in large pumps on skids that could be coupled to diesels on skids with suction piping running to the nearby coast.

I would think that big C5 airlift assets could have been deployed very quickly.

How the heck do I know though? I have only been working in the Oil, Gas and Mining industry for 30 years. Know a little bit about portable high capacity pumps and drive systems

[Freddd]

I think the media acted up so much because they couldn’t get Obama’s attention on how serious the Nuclear crisis in Japan is...

[tsomer]

Considering this report of Japans request for help,

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_646523.html

it kinda sorta makes sense, suggesting Japan has
abandoned all hope of salvaging any part of the plant.
It’s also characteristic ‘bam diplomacy.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Absolutely not.

It's Bush's fault.

[Paine in the Neck]

This is essentally from the same playbook the Obamites used in the BP Gulf blowout. Instead of solving the problem they sought to exploit the crisis to advance their radical agenda.[ “never let a crisis go to waste”]

[fso301]

Fukushima was designed by General Electric, as Oyster Creek was around the same time, and the two plants are similar. The problem, he said, was that the hookup is done through electric switching equipment that is in a basement room flooded by the tsunami, he said. “Even though you have generators on site, you have to get the water out of the basement,” he said.

Just a few guesses here but with the basement flooded, pumping it to access the electrical panel may not have been feasible due to retreating tsunami waters still covering the vents.

Another guess here but the basement might also be filled with mud and debris. Crews would have to use water jets to clear a way in and even larger pumps to remove the mud and water. Who knows what manner of hardened doors might also be in the way?

Seventy years ago, the Germans figured out how to enable large diesel engines to operate below water. I can understand the incompetence and graft behind critical backup power sources being located in the basements of New Orleans government buildings.

However, I cannot understand how at a coastal nuclear power plant, critical backup power was located in a non-water tight basement?

[verity]

"According to the unnamed senior official"

Him again. lol