Post by Joe Neubarth on Dec 23, 2011 13:35:03 GMT -5
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The Japanese are claiming a "Cold Shutdown" status for the damaged reactors. That is a joke. The cold shutdown classification is designed to be used for a reactor with nuclear fuel inside being shut down from operation to below 100 degrees.
The Japanese in their efforts to hoodwink their gullible public have forgotten to point out that their claim is a joke because the reactor cores are no longer in the reactors. In fact they probably are not even in the thick cement containment structure built around the steel reactor vessel.
I have long suspected that the Cores are in 80 to 100 ton blobs deep inside the cement or in the ground under the cement slabs.
If so, the residual heat would be causing steam vents to open on the sides of the reactor buildings, provided they were not venting right up through the original hole they burned through the cement floor of the building on their way down. When we were seeing all those hot gasses and steam escaping from the reactor buildings in the past nine months, guess where it was coming from? That's right, from that hole in the ground. Sort of a man made radioactive volcano.
They have had one steam vent that was most obvious when I was watching on their live cam of the site. It was located outside Reactor Three building about half way to the tower. Just steam coming out of the ground. Thermal imaging attested to the fact that it was very hot.