midnight rambler
24th April 2011, 12:51 PM
(though Serpo posted this info on the mega thread, imo this topic deserves its own thread due to the scope of the matter since reactor #3 contained plutonium)
I'm surely no nuclear expert, but I can see what the photos clearly show - i.e. the 3rd and 4th floors of reactor building #3 are non-existent after the 'hydrogen' explosion. If you carefully study the photo below it will become very clear to you that the 2nd floor walls are intact yet from the 3rd floor up there is nothing but debris - none of the original structure remains intact.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/pict11.jpg
Note the position of the reactor with respect to the 3rd and 4th floors -
http://static1.firedoglake.com/1/files/2011/03/Fukushima-reactor-schematic.jpg
The spent fuel pools were also on the 3rd floor adjacent to the reactor (directly below the orange crane in the illustration in the far corner).
You can see more of the high res photos from the drone(s) here -
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm
This fellow elaborates on his observations of the above (linked) photos -
http://lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/hi-res-photographic-proof-reactor-core-exploded-unit-3-0
Reactor core GONE - spent fuel pool GONE, as in 'gone' into the environment. Again, this is the only reactor which had plutonium in it, and now that plutonium has been broadcast into the environment.
I'm surely no nuclear expert, but I can see what the photos clearly show - i.e. the 3rd and 4th floors of reactor building #3 are non-existent after the 'hydrogen' explosion. If you carefully study the photo below it will become very clear to you that the 2nd floor walls are intact yet from the 3rd floor up there is nothing but debris - none of the original structure remains intact.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/pict11.jpg
Note the position of the reactor with respect to the 3rd and 4th floors -
http://static1.firedoglake.com/1/files/2011/03/Fukushima-reactor-schematic.jpg
The spent fuel pools were also on the 3rd floor adjacent to the reactor (directly below the orange crane in the illustration in the far corner).
You can see more of the high res photos from the drone(s) here -
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm
This fellow elaborates on his observations of the above (linked) photos -
http://lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/hi-res-photographic-proof-reactor-core-exploded-unit-3-0
Reactor core GONE - spent fuel pool GONE, as in 'gone' into the environment. Again, this is the only reactor which had plutonium in it, and now that plutonium has been broadcast into the environment.