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To: meatloaf
2. The reactor vents into a torus, larged water filled structure, which reduces pressure.

That is true - the reactor vessel is where they're injecting sea water. The steam is vented into the large torus which is filled with cooler water. This reduces pressure by at least partially condensing the steam back down to water. The Torus is inside the containment structure as well. They have had to "burp" the containment structure on 1, 2, and 3 a couple of times because the pressure inside the containment was too high as a result of the torus not being adequate to cool the steam coming out of the reactor.

3. The spent fuel pools, stainless steel lined concrete, which are outside the primary containment and which are probably now exposed have been the target of the helicopter water drops and the water from the fire engine deck guns.

They also have one of those concrete booms up now to spray water into unit 4's pond since access to the spent fuel pond apparently is limited to using a hole in the side of the building. BTW, units 5 and 6 are using their normal cooling process to cool the spent fuel pools as well as the main reactor cores. They may be salvageable.

24 posted on 03/23/2011 1:43:42 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: meyer
BTW, units 5 and 6 are using their normal cooling process to cool the spent fuel pools as well as the main reactor cores. They may be salvageable.

Not if they used salt water to cool them. There is going to be scale all over everything in the reactor Bessel and nobody is going to crawl in there to scrape it off. Once you get salt water into a system like this it isn't coming back. And heck the things were due to be taken out of service in less than a year anyways. No reason to take the risk of restarting a possibly damaged reactor. Just finish the shutdown.
31 posted on 03/23/2011 1:49:25 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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