Thank you for the link. The video of fuel pool 3 supports what Arnie Gunderson Videos (Fairewinds.com) have said for weeks - that fuel was blown out of tank 3 and into the countryside, air, and ocean. Plutonium has been detected in the area surrounding the reactors and in truly trace amounts in the US. Gunderson’s latest vid includes quotes from Japan’s Dr. Saji who is a former member of Japan’s Atomic Nuclear Safety commission. Dr. Saji’s email includes the following comments about the explosion in fuel pool 3:
“We were just lucky due to the favorable meteorological conditions during the entire development of the accident.”
SNIP
“We were very lucky even with a large release from 1F3 due to the most severe hydrogen explosion that could have induced a heavy land contamination. This resulted from the wind direction towards the sea at the time of the releases, although this must have resulted in wider ocean contamination far from Fukushima Daiichi”
Gunderson points out that had the wind not been blowing toward the ocean, much more radioactivity would have landed on land creating much larger exclusion zones. Gunderson also notes that the pro nuke spin will be that the situation was never that bad (because alot of the radioactive material is AWOL in the ocean).
Fairewinds is a company in the business of providing help to those fighting nuclear power.
The video of fuel pool #3, if you could call it a “video”, shows no such thing.
In the real world: “TEPCO released an image of the No. 3 reactor’s spent fuel pool, where fuel rods were covered with debris from explosions in March that damaged the building’s roof and walls. But officials said the fuel rods, protected by a metal screen, are believed to be largely undamaged.”
It seems clear that storing fuel in ponds without the ability to provide minimal additional shielding is probably something to be corrected. It seems reasonable to conclude that some damage to fuel rods has allowed the release of some particles. But the fuel pond isn’t empty, the fuel was not “blown out”, and the Fairewinds folks will continue to say whatever helps their clients.