[AwesomePossum]

Thanks for the reply..........after I posted I realized that I left out one thought, and this is it: Were the torus to shift, if it were possible, during a 9.1 quake and a 30' tsunami, would that shifting be able to assist in the damage of piping and/or pumps that deliver water to the reactor, or, damage valves that keep water from exiting the reactor?

The reason I ask, is that the Japanese working with the reactors (at great personal sacrifice, I might add) have repeatedly stated that they are constantly pumping seawater to the reactors, and yet there is still a constant loss of water (you may answer me like some of my teachers years and years ago, "What did I just say?" in this case meaning that water goes in and because of the tremendous heat, much is converted to steam, thus the need for more and more water)..........which brings me to another question: Is the seawater being pumped into the metal vessel or to the outside of the metal vessel, or, to both areas?

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[meyer]

The water is being pumped in, but the level is still dropping. Maybe. I’m suspicious of any media source because I think that they’re screwing up the chronological order of things at this point. Just this morning, I read that cooling has failed on Nukushima Unit 2. Cooling failed as soon as the tsunami took out the diesel generators right after the earthquake, so that news was old news.

I recall (and memory’s the first thing to go) reading yesterday evening (from TEPCO’s web site) that the unit 1 containment structure was being pumped full of sea water and was almost full!

I’m just a little skeptical of any sources right now, maybe excluding TEPCO’s press releases which are pretty short and to-the-point (though perhaps incomplete).