[TigerLikesRooster]

Yes, it is still a holy mess. Just saw news reporting that it would take a year to cool the reactors on the safe level(if everything goes well, I guess,) according to some expert in Japanese nuclear agency.

[justa-hairyape]

Wow. Gonna have a lot of contaminated water to deal with. Apparently the French are going to assist with removing the radioactive water. They need to setup a collection system to remove the raw water that traveled into the reactor from external injection. Normally seawater is indirectly used to cool the internal reactor fresh water. If they stop the cooling water flow, the core will melt through the bottom of the reactor vessel (instrument tube penetration failures). Actually do not know what they could have done to stop this accident cold. This is one of the worse case accidents for these types of reactors. Long term station blackout combined with a delay in depressurization. They may have acted just a little late in releasing the pressure, but that will have to be investigated later. The higher pressure makes the internal melting point temperature values lower.