'Without Hot Air'

[desperate]

Hey Wookey, this seems to be quite a frank review of the situation, don't show it to Martin though

http://world-nuclear.org/info/fukushima_accident_inf129.html

Cheers,

Desp

[rt29781]

rt can you point to some scientific details on that? Your post is the first I have heard of it being more than a hydrogen explosion blowing the roof off, or of fuel rods being ejected (presumably from the storage ponds, not the reactors,  as they remained essentially intact)

As in my original post go here: http://vimeo.com/22865967 the video explains the evidence but in a nutshell the unit 3 explosion was too energetic to have been solely a hydrogen explosion.  I did think it went with a bang....compared to unit 1.  The presenter of the video goes into the detail of why he thinks it was a "prompt nuclear reaction" in the fuel rod storage area.

[wookey]

Ah, right. That video didn't work for me, so was none the wiser. I hate the way everyone hides video URLs behind embedded flash players. I can play almost any video file, but rarely do embedded flash players work (the bbc's not working is particularly egregious). Youtube and blip.tv (because they provide a real link) are honourable exceptions. Flash is evil - roll on HTML5.

This is the extra agravation one gets for being a genuine free-software user and eschewing Adobe's proprietary flash. (far too many free-software users are very slack on this particular point so the pressure to gets these things fixed is minimal, although bizarrely we now find ourselves allied with ipad/phone users which will no doubt help enormously)

Desp - thanks for that link - it's excellent stuff, with data, and engineering details, and numbers and _everything_!

[desperate]

Wookey,
Loads more info here:-

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/

Can't see any evidence of prompt nuclear explosion.

Desp