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To: GonzoGOP
Can you confirm that? If they had power on 5 & 6 why take a week to route power all the way from the outside world. Just rotate the power form plant to plant and use the batteries to keep the pumps going between hits off the diesel. I just can't see them letting things get as bad as they did last Tuesday, when the tops were actually being blown off the buildings, if they had power that close to hand.

The information is from older TEPCO press releases (they are publishing information a few times a day). The problem is that while the switchgear and substation equipment for 5 and 6 remained somewhat intact, the electrical gear for units 1 through 4 did not.

Also, one backup generator was inadequate to maintain both 5 and 6 along with their spent fuel ponds at an adequately cool level. They would have endangered those two units to provide an inadequate supply to the other 4 generators. Essentially, if they could have made the hookup, they'd probably have had the roofs blowing off 2 more units and would have 6 scuttled nuclear reactors instead of (probably) 4.

They needed to wait for off-site power to provide adequate supply to run pumps and cooling equipment on 1-4 (some of which is now damaged due to the explosions, earthquake, and tsunami). And even with that hooked up, they still need to adequately test each piece of equipment and circuit to be relatively sure that the are operational and are not faulted (short-circuited).

88 posted on 03/23/2011 2:40:40 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: meyer
I also dug through the old updates. They didn't get the gen-sets for 5-6 up and running until the 18th by which time most of the dammage to 1-4 had already been done. See post UPDATE: News Brief: 3/18/11, 10 AM EDT [Fukushima-MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub] . In it they announce getting the gen-sets restarted.
93 posted on 03/23/2011 2:45:09 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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