Jeff - From these images, it looks like that as of 3-20-11...
Reactor One had a fuel-pool meltdown and fission was continuing on the date of the picture.
R2 is probably having a reactor meltdown.
R3 had a reactor explosion - very like Chernobyl but for different reasons - and a continuing fission excursion exists.
Reactor 4 had a hydrogen explosion and got a dose of R3 when it blew. R4 could still be experiencing fission excursions in the expended fuel rods.
On 3-23-11, They switched equipment (because they couldn't touch the first drone to service it) and didn't see much.
3-24-11, They switched equipment again (because they couldn't touch the SECOND drone to service it). It looks worse, but it is probably just a more sensitive camera. They are probably waiting for more drones. I can safely describe the situation at R3 as a nuclear excursion in the reactor core. The comparison to Chernobyl is now literal. They are probably waiting for more drones.
I can safely describe the situation at R3 as a nuclear excursion in the reactor core....
Right now at Fukushima Daiichi. More than 70,000 long tons of highly radioactive 'stagnant' water is sitting in the turbine rooms of Reactors 1, 2 and 3, all dressed up and nowhere to go except the ocean - where it is being quietly dumped. White smoke is still emitting from reactors 2,3 and 4.The temperatures in reactors 1, 2 and 3 remain above cold shutdown conditions BECAUSE YOU CANNOT GET COLD SHUTDOWN AFTER THE FUEL RODS MELT TOGETHER! EVER! Nitrogen is still being injected into the containment vessel of Reactor 1 faster than it can leak out the bottom. The containment is breached...as in BROKEN.
I believe another explosion is imminent at Reactor 1. The reactor containment vessels of reactors 2 and 3 are still at atmospheric pressure BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL BREACHED!
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