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tw · 03-28-2011, 08:28 AM

Japanese reactors are at a very critical stage. If TEPCO does not aggressively and decisively act quickly, then a major evacuation of personal followed by a major radiation leak will occur. Two reactors probably have melted cores. That explains the large amounts of Iodine 131. One or both also have containment vessel leaks. TEPCO is moving so slowly as to not even learn (or announce) a serious pool of radioactive water outside one plant for more than 24 hours later. But they were real quick to announce a reading that was too hight. TEPCO is still playing 'public spin' with facts. TEPCO top management remains that far removed from reality. Apparently management is responding to events rather than predicting, averting, and getting ahead of events. That is a formula for an every larger disaster.

TEPCO could not provide wires to power the plants for two weeks. That meant no power for any instruments in any control room for two weeks. That meant technical people had no or insufficient information to avert any problems. Ten days just to decide to route wires? An example of management responding to events rather then trying to control anything. Worse, nobody knows where breeches are. Or even if cooling pumps can work.

In Three Mile Island, damaged pumps worked for a full year. Had pumps failed, then Three Mile Island would have restarted a meltdown. In Fukushima, nobody knows how to get to some pumps. Let alone know if plumbing is still intact. Management is that far removed from reality and apparently responding like waves of flowing tar. Every week, the problems will get worse do to complete failure at TEPCO top management.

Every nuclear disaster is not traceable to plant failure. Every reason for disaster and for why problems only got worse was directly traceable to management. Every nuclear failure is directly traceable to management that did nothing or simply made things worse. People - not the plants - are what makes every nuclear power failure so dangerous. Including failures in Canada, UK, Nevada, and Fermi 1 outside of Chicago.

03-28-2011, 08:28 AM	#7
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Japanese reactors are at a very critical stage. If TEPCO does not aggressively and decisively act quickly, then a major evacuation of personal followed by a major radiation leak will occur. Two reactors probably have melted cores. That explains the large amounts of Iodine 131. One or both also have containment vessel leaks. TEPCO is moving so slowly as to not even learn (or announce) a serious pool of radioactive water outside one plant for more than 24 hours later. But they were real quick to announce a reading that was too hight. TEPCO is still playing 'public spin' with facts. TEPCO top management remains that far removed from reality. Apparently management is responding to events rather than predicting, averting, and getting ahead of events. That is a formula for an every larger disaster. TEPCO could not provide wires to power the plants for two weeks. That meant no power for any instruments in any control room for two weeks. That meant technical people had no or insufficient information to avert any problems. Ten days just to decide to route wires? An example of management responding to events rather then trying to control anything. Worse, nobody knows where breeches are. Or even if cooling pumps can work. In Three Mile Island, damaged pumps worked for a full year. Had pumps failed, then Three Mile Island would have restarted a meltdown. In Fukushima, nobody knows how to get to some pumps. Let alone know if plumbing is still intact. Management is that far removed from reality and apparently responding like waves of flowing tar. Every week, the problems will get worse do to complete failure at TEPCO top management. Every nuclear disaster is not traceable to plant failure. Every reason for disaster and for why problems only got worse was directly traceable to management. Every nuclear failure is directly traceable to management that did nothing or simply made things worse. People - not the plants - are what makes every nuclear power failure so dangerous. Including failures in Canada, UK, Nevada, and Fermi 1 outside of Chicago. Last edited by tw; 03-28-2011 at 08:40 AM.