Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Status
POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Monday, December 22, 2025 19:24
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Efforts to cool down the reactors using helicopters to drop water was abandoned after 8 flights due to water being dispersed in the air before reaching its target. A total of nearly 200 flights were required, but was never made.
Efforts to cool down the reactors using 5 fire trucks armed with water cannons have also failed. The water failed to reach the intended target and the fire trucks have pulled back due to high radiation levels.
Efforts is now being made to restore power to the plant by running new power lines from the electrical grid. However, even with the restoration of power, the water pumps will have to be repaired first due to damages.
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The helicopters... what a Fail. That seems so desperate an attempt for the very reason it didn't work - comparatively low volumes of water for the task, slow delivery, hard to focus, and off shore winds - that it has to be a big red flag that they would even try it. They are reaching.
The NYTimes this morning is even less optimistic. Today's paper focuses on how much worse US nuclear experts think the problem is than do the Japanese.
“We believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures,” Mr. Jaczko said (chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission).
His statement was quickly but not definitively rebutted by officials of Tokyo Electric, the plant’s operator.
“We can’t get inside to check (!!!!!!!!!!), but we’ve been carefully watching the building’s environs, and there has not been any particular problem,” Hajime Motojuku, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric, said Thursday morning in Japan.
Later, a spokesman for Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Yoshitaka Nagayama, was more equivocal, saying, “Because we have been unable to go to the scene, we cannot confirm whether there is water left or not in the spent fuel pool at Reactor No. 4.”
Sss - what? So where's their optimism coming from?
My favorite cluster fuck quote of the day:
"General Electric said it will send about 10 (they don't even know the number) gas turbine generators to Japan to help replace lost power generating capacity. >> Michael Tetuan, a spokesman for the company, said that the operators of the damaged plant had requested generators, but he did not know what they would be used for. <<
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Latest spreadsheet containing the status of the Fukushima Power Plant.
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1300350525P.pd
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What I don't understand is why they can't fly a remote control helicopter into the place to visually verify the status of the water level in the spent fuel rod pool. Something as simple as a Dragonfly would work or numerous others used by various film makers.
http://www.draganfly.com/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/helicam-combines-toy-helicopter
-and-camera-for-hd-videos/
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I was going to post that very thing! It's the land of robots after all! But I didn't because I think there are too many doors to go through - even with the blasts it's not an open wound, or I believe they would have.
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Quote:
Originally posted by HAKEN:
What I don't understand is why they can't fly a remote control helicopter into the place to visually verify the status of the water level in the spent fuel rod pool. Something as simple as a Dragonfly would work or numerous others used by various film makers.
Corporate News is reporting that USAF/CIA "may" publicly fly a Global Hawk robot over the Jap nuke plant today.
Privately They've probably been doing that since Day 1, and keeping the radiation measurements Top Secret.
Sleep safe tonight, USA is here to help.
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
My favorite cluster fuck quote of the day:
"General Electric said it will send about 10 (they don't even know the number) gas turbine generators to Japan to help replace lost power generating capacity. >> Michael Tetuan, a spokesman for the company, said that the operators of the damaged plant had requested generators, but he did not know what they would be used for. <<
I live 10 miles from a nuke plant, that I can see outside my window. 5 years ago when the dam hydro plant next door CAUGHT ON FIRE AND "COULD NOT BE EXTINGUISHED" the nuke plant had a "little emergency", due to loss of electricity for cooling water. THERE WERE NO BACKUP POWER GENERATORS FOR THE NUKE PLANT IN USA... AN IRANIAN CITIZEN WAS IN CHARGE OF BUILDING THAT NUKE PLANT IN USA, until last year when he cheated on his wife and tried to hide his paychecks from US divorce court by wiring dollars to his bank account in Iran.
My local nuke bomb factory at ORNL is the world's largest nuke waste site, where Commie Russia and LIBYA sends its nuke waste, where THOUSANDS of foreign citizens work stealing USA's Top Secrets. Even the director of ORNL was an illegal alien who could not leave USA or Border Patrol would not allow him to re-enter USA (hahaha laughed the local Bohemian Grover News Corporation).
We are frakked.
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There's a lot of unknowns listed on the most damaged reactors... I suspect they figure they're beyond saving and aren't bothering with situation updates anymore.
also worrisome: temperatures in the water in the reactors thought secure are increasing.
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It has been confirmed that workers have re-connected power lines to the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant beginning with Reactor 2.
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