Just saw video of the water drop over the reactor, what a waste.

[NewtonMP2100]

....did they DROP it.....like it's HOT.....???

[Grateful11]

Fire away. What they're doing, IMHO, is about as effective as one drop of water
on a campfire. You can plainly see the majority of the water vapor is
blowing away. I said days ago why not bring in cranes with 4" water
lines a flood the building as much as possible. Sorry but I'm getting a bit
like the people of Japan and the PM, they quoted him yesterday as asking
the power company, "what the h@ll is going on". These buildings aren't
that tall, clear a path or bring in something by sea, hook up some frickin'
arse pumps and start pumping. Before it's over with I hate to say it but
someone is going to have to step up to the plate and sacrifice safety like
they in Chernobyl and start taking chances and get some real cooling going on
or all h@ll is going break lose. I know the next is going to be, "why don't you go
do it then?" Well if I were there and capable and it meant having to do it
for the safety of my family's future then yes I'd do it. It will soon have been
a week and it doesn't appear to me that much progress is being other than
they're running new power lines to the plant and they said it may be days
before that's finished.

[Psurfer]

Hope whoever it was in this forum that was ranting about the nuclear crisis just being a hyped-up propaganda story from the liberal media, will now just refrain from offering their expert opinion for a while.
This has the potential to become extremely serious.

[Grateful11]

Racer X wrote:
They are bringing in riot control water cannons that can be operated while in NBC suits.

There are responders on the ground who are sacrificing themselves by knowingly going over the exposure limit to help head this stuff off. I can assure you that they are doing more than a lot of people would be willing to risk. My GF's co-teacher is from Japan, and her family is still there.

See now that's information that I'm not hearing through normal channels.
That's great, I'm glad to hear it. I hate they are having to put their
health on the line but they deserve the highest praise IMO.

[davester]

I don't think you can make any judgement based on the video as to the fraction of water that was carried off. Yes, a large amount of spray was carried off, but the spray is probably largely air. You can't see if the bulk of the liquid water hit the ground because it is masked by the spray.

[wowzer]

Why not just put a hose at the bottom and let it trickle in from the exhaust? That should get more water into the area, yes?

[DeusxMac]

wowzer wrote:
Why not just put a hose at the bottom and let it trickle in from the exhaust? That should get more water into the area, yes?

Why not have the helicopters lower the ends of very long hoses into the area?

Heavy duty hoses and fire pump pressure can travel quite a distance.

[deckeda]

What I got from a CNN.com story was that the water drops were today mostly, and that hopefully in a day or two the ground-level cooling might be back online, but if not the remaining 180 workers would very soon be asked to sacrifice themselves by going in closer with a cooling effort.

[Mini 9]

Ironic how they might desire a tsunami now to put more water on it.

[Black]

I guess I'm wondering why we would assume that the people in charge over there would not make the best possible decisions given first-hand knowledge of what resources they have immediately available.