Just read on Drudge that they are going to pump sea water into the containment area (with boric acid) to facilitate cooling. Explains why building on the coastline was done (access to huge volume of water).
There is actually a FR thread right now questioning why our NRC isn’t ‘out infront’ giving news conferences. About a fluid situation (EQs still occurring) and real time engineering being done. Think of the minute to minute decisions the Japanese engineers are making.
They should have been doing that before all their stuff got wet.
"they are going to pump sea water into the containment area (with boric acid) to facilitate cooling. Explains why building on the coastline was done (access to huge volume of water)."
The seawater was intended for cooling use in a heat exchanger system at a much lower temperature. Using sea water(with borate) in the reactor side is a last ditch panic effort to keep it cool. The chloride is going to cause a much higher corrosion/hydrogen generation rate and they'll have to keep venting rather than containing.