You missed the point. If you DID search for “reactor 4 leaning” in order to find out if the video you had found had any real merit, you’d have found that the ONLY places that mention the possibility are blogs, conspiracy sites, and far-left anti-nuclear web sites. Oh, and now Free Republic.
One way to figure out if what you found on a blog is the truth is to see if there are ANY reputable news orgnizations even willing to report the speculation.
You say the video tells you japan has confirmed something — if “japan” actually made a public statement about the building leaning, do you seriously believe that NO NEWS ORGANIZATION would report it? Wouldn’t they have CONFIRMED it to a news organization?
Or do you think that “Japan” is actually confirming things t o left-wing anti-nuclear sites, while keeping the media in the dark?
On a more scientific matter, the buildings are essentially solid concrete blocks up to the top of the reactor, with a containment building built on top of that.
So if you say they are “shoring up the 2nd floor”, it has no real meaning relative to the containment concrete base. And yes, it would make sense that if there were still some structure standing in the building area above the concrete base, they would want to “shore it up” so it didn’t fall into the spent fuel pool and cause more trouble. But that wouldn’t indicate that the building was “leaning”.
What I am saying is that if you look at the actual construction of each reactor facility, you’d see that “leaning” wouldn’t make sense as a serious concern. The building can’t “fall over”, it’s a solid concrete block. And since #4 doesn’t even have fuel in it’s reactor core, it wouldn’t even matter to operations if the building shifted and the connections broke — the only issue in #4 is keeping water in the spent fuel pool until it cools off enough that they can transfer the fuel to the auxilary pool.
And for the record, I would never decide something was leaning based on a video or a picture. There are a myriad of ways that video and pictures distort perception, making things look different (for example, see the outright hysteria when someone mistook a plane contrail for an offshore missile launch in California).
Once again your command of the facts is sloppy. I didn’t say, the video did not say..that Japan confirmed the building was leaning. The video interview on news channel Russia Today said that Japan had confirmed that they were shoring up the building said I recall Japan saying a few weeks ago that it was shoring up the building. Why would it not do so after announcing that it was trying to stabilize the structures following explosions, tsunami, fires and continued aftershocks.
I saw a Russia Today clip with a title about ‘leaning’ and I watched it. Photographing a building and noting that it is the only structure that appears to be leaning off vertical compared with other structures is, I believe, a point that can be commented on without being labeled wild conspiracy nut. The anchor specifies that people are SPECULATING that the building appears to be leaning and asked the interviewee if that is of concern if true. I posted it in chat, even though it was a news source and none of this will content you so it seems we have nothing more to discuss on this matter. Oh I see you personally have strict criteria for how you decide things are leaning “I would never decide something was leaning based on a video or a picture. “ How.interesting.