2011-03-18, 05:54 PM
Anonymous Moose Wrote:Interestingly enough, the amount of water (to a point) has a direct effect on the radiation levels.
And aside from trying to spray water (which some sources say failed) and dumping water from helicopers, what other methods are they trying? And of course there would be no need for alternative methods if the standard emergency systems were sufficient.
...The bad news is that all methods I hear of seem to be insufficient.
Updated as of 5:50pm GMT
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Spr...03111.html
- Four lolhelicopters dropping 7.5 tonnes each
- Five firetrucks pumping 6 tonnes each
- One police firetruck delivering 40 tonnes
- Six army firetrucks supplying another 40 tonnes
- US forces: 2 tonnes (?)
- Tokyo fire department's Hyper Rescue team joining tomorrow
All that was/is going into Unit 3.
Unit 1&2 and 5&6 are taken (hopefully good) care of by other sources of water supply.
=> Water levels at the central used fuel storage ponds are 'secured' and temperatures are 55ºC. Not saying I trust their definition for "secured", but 55ºC seems breathable at least.

