That is what I was getting at. Keep pouring water on the hot stuff....that plume has
not been contained and something is downwind from that location....this is not pretty.
Yeah I even heard they were "repairing" the facility. What a load of crock. They need to take the whole place up into ships and drop it in the Marianas trench. Of course then Godzilla might actually be a reality...
That's my lame attempt at humor- anyway how do you fix a problem like that? Chernobyl is still sitting there leaking.
Oddly enough, my BIL, is tied directly with the clean-up design of the Daiichi(sp) plant. I find it interesting that I happen to catch up on the AHA forum the night that I ask him about the progress. He does some design work for the process and what needs to be done. There is a lot of truth to slow, bureaucratic progress. But there is a significant difference to the "fuel rods" used in Chernobyl vs. Dai ichi. Primarily, Chernobyl used a peletized form of fuel, when it blew it spewed pellets all over the USSR and what not. Japan on the other hand used more clay-rod technology. Less spewed up and about.
*** This is not an argument against a leak***
Just that there was less containment in the USSR vs. Japan...
But Chernobyl aside, I asked and the most damaged reactors do have a superstructure like Chernobyl. But they are still looking at cleaning up more than that and "cleaning up" a potential "eye-sore"
Just sayin...