oh and btw, this complete meltdown of rods would have happened BEFORE the venting of the vapor..
perhaps the info that is starting to trickle out is why the admission has finally come that the damage to the site happened before the Tsunami.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110515x1.html
The information was there for TEPCO..they had the readings
and wouldn’t NISA have had them, too..
I guess they didn’t want to admit it ,either
“The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has so far said the reactor withstood the shaking and that the unexpectedly large tsunami caused a station blackout, which led to explosions.”
So what conclusion can you draw...
They better start wondering about TEPCO’s history of lying and falsifying records. An engineer, SteveHarvey who posts here... who was familiar with the GE scandal felt like their history of malfeasance couldn’t have had anything to do with the problem since the Tsunami created the situation.
Perhaps he should rethink that position.
That is an inaccurate statement of the article you linked to. This is why people will continue to post responses to your comments. You state: "the damage to the site".
There is a LOT of damage to the site. A lot of different things are broken. What the article says is that there is SOME evidence that there was SOME damage to the ONE reactor from the initial earthquake. From the actual article:
A source at Tepco admitted it was possible that key facilities were compromised before the tsunami.Damage to the pipes would not itself have lead to a complete loss of coolant; nothing in the article contraindicates that the loss of cooling from the loss of power is what caused the meltdown and explosiion."The quake's tremors may have caused damage to the pressure vessel or pipes," the official said.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has so far said the reactor withstood the shaking and that the unexpectedly large tsunami caused a station blackout, which led to explosions.
All this report tells us is that there was some radiation leakage the meltdown. BTW, the tsunami was an hour after the initial earthquake. They lost power an hour after that, and the high readings weren't until later that evening, AFTER the tsunami and loss of power, but before the loss of coolant and the explosion.
Also, this isn't a new admission -- we knew people went into the plant, and had to leave that evening because the dosimeters went off. IT may be that we didn't know what the dosimeter limit settings were.
Also note that the readings they are now announcing, 300 ms/hour, is lower than the amount they were detecting today -- which again shows that whatever the problems were that led to the initial high radiation, they weren't the problems they are dealing with now.