NUCLEAR DISASTER: The unknown and misinformation in Japan

What we know about the current events in Japan, depends on what network you prefer. The best thing to do, is to flip around between the 3 and put it together the best that you can, or you can come here. There is now a radiation cloud in the atmosphere. Yesterday it was over Japan, now it is headed out over the Pacific Ocean. It is not from the Hydrogen explosions that destroyed two of the 6 reactor buildings, #1 and #3, but from a cooling pool fire that houses used fuel rods. This pool is in the #4 reactor building. In the 70's, nuclear reactors had these mounted high up in the same building housing the reactor. This was later changed in newer designs. This pool has many rods in it from 2-8 power generation cycles. Each cycle lasts 6 years. It takes 5-10 years for these rods to cool down! They are having a major problem keeping these rods from catching on fire and exploding/melting at thousands of degrees. When they are not submerged in cooling fluid, they react with air and turn molten, releasing radiation into the atmosphere. So much radiation now that workers can not get close enough to fix the problem.


Do the other 5 reactor buildings have this same problem? What about #1 and #3 that blew up? Are the pools damaged or did they have spent fuel rods in them? If so, we have not been given that information, as it would be very bad. We know that #4, #5, #6 have spent fuel rods in them. In a map, #5 & #6, look to be a newer addition and maybe were not completely offline like #1-4.


Reports are that 70% of the fuel rods in #1 have damage, 33% in #2, and #3 was not reported on, but had an explosion Wednesday (Japan time). This could be because the rods were less damaged and sticking further up out of the water being circulated. The circulation system is like an automobile, in that all air needs to be out of it. The situation now, is that they are using seawater and air is trapped inside the vessel. This causes scenarios where explosions take place as hydrogen builds up. While dire circumstances, these are not as immediately threatening as the cooling pools. Two workers from one of the blasts on Wednesday have not been found. Either they abandoned ship, or got vaporized by the hydrogen blast from #3. Hope this is informative and pray for the people of Japan.