[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[samtheman]

Where to start?

[maine yankee]

service masters ?

[Last Dakotan]

That's nothing - here is what the US machine tool industry looks like after the Japanese.

This is the former Warner & Swasey Company where they used to make lathes.

[Diogenesis]

"It is what you cannot see that should terrify you."

Micheal Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

[ransomnote]

Wonder what the spent fuel pools look like?

[CharlyFord]

That's some heavy metal building parts and concrete laying around on that floor. The explosion that destroyed that building was a whopper. And, there were people on site when those explosions happened. They were trying to get the facility under control.

Can you imagine working at a power plat with six nuclear reactors while four of the six are blowing up. I'll bet those guys walk funny. They got big ones!

[BigFinn]

My worry is what is happening to the ocean? Chernyobl x 4 = the dead sea?

[Razzz42]

I read here on FR that nuke plants were meant to blow up and the end result of this disaster is no worse than working on a banana plantation.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-date-city-in.html

[CharlesWayneCT]

It’s actually a good sign that they were able to send people to take the pictures and access the damage.

[T. P. Pole]

Looks a lot like one of the backup generator rooms where I used to work after the Northridge earthquake.

[catnipman]

Yep, soon as they can get some lectricity hooked back up, they can turn the pumps on and get the whole thing going again.

[meyer]

Wow! Looks like my basement. Well, not really. :-)

Lesson No 3 - venting hydrogen gas from fuel storage area is important, just as venting hydrogen gas from the reactor containment vessel is important.

Im assuming that this was a hydrogen explosion. Could be something else, but logic points to hydrogen gas. This does put the integrity of the fuel in the spent fuel pool in question though.