slightly premature considering they are talking about burying the whole place like Chernobyl.

Q&A starts around the one hour mark.

Nice to hear some numbers about the heat generating capacity of those stored fuel rods.

There are lots of articles, but this one is also good. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/At-Fukushima-gensets-were-underground/articleshow/7741036.cms

"heat in the cores even after shutdown, sufficient to boil off 300 tonnes of water every day"

"Analysis emerging now shows that there were 13 diesel generators installed in a below-ground bunker near the seawall protecting the nuclear plant from the ocean. The diesel fuel was reportedly stored in tanks built on the sea front to facilitate easy unloading from ships."


This backup generator design has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, next to leaving like six reactors worth of spent fuel rods sitting in an open pool on top of a nuclear reactor.

So basically this place was designed to only have 8 hours of battery power... Clearly the reactors were going to melt down. I'm really surprised there was no emergency water tanks built into the system anywhere. Now I understand why TEPCO told the PM on Monday that they were done, and they were leaving and it was a suicide mission to stay. Remember when they said all the workers left. That was when they told the govt it is hopeless.

*long

Invocations (long) cannot be called by alizarin because alizarin is not privileged - sorry.