Japan fusion

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@djolds1

I was operating largely on memory from this documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... -meltdown/ Listen about 6:30 in.

Wikipedia has a lot of detail here. You'll see a lot of "could have been anticipated" type talk in there.

[paperburn1]

The link I posted earlier showed that the reactor survived the earthquake and was functional preforming emergency shutdown without flaw. And if the battery backup had not been submerged and disabled 30 minutes later the firefighting equipment that was in place could have been moved into position to take over cooling and reactor shutdown. They had no plan for losing both commercial and backup generators as well as battery backup. Without the batteries there was no way to vent the shutdown reactors, provided interim cooling and give them time to hook up the cooling from the emergency equipment.(firetrucks) Some of the pictures are most impressive of how the debris from the wavefront jammed up the works. There was even a car tire in one of the reactor control rooms!! something else I did not realize until reading the report was the reactors were hit by TWO tsunami 15 minutes apart the second one riding on the first doing the most severe damage.