March 19, 2013
Long, the pool is 40 feet deep. waters pumped out, cooled down, pumps back in but no radiation goes anywhere. theyve lost power to the pump and that water is heating up. the only risk is if the water gets above 212 it stars to boil away. if it boils away, rods get dry, fission occurs and thats a very, very bad thing. even so, thats four days away. if they dont do anything at all. certainly theyre working to get this back up. but this is what the reactor plant looks like. so that graphic i showed...