Former nuclear reactor operator on Fukushima risks

New TEPCO update:<p><a href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031304-e.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031304-e....</a><p>High Pressure Coolant Injection System of Unit 3 automatically stopped. We endeavored to restart the Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System but failed. Also, we could not confirm the water inflow of Emergency Core Cooling System.

This article might also be of interest, based on the information available from authorities in Japan: <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/nuclear-crisis-in-japan-fukushima-0518.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/nuclear-crisis-in-j...</a>

&#62;<i>the US military has flown coolant to the site, but the coolant they use is regular water; I can’t imagine why the US would need to fly in coolant.</i><p>The US did not fly any coolant to Japan.<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/japan-quake-nuclear-coolant-idUSN1125270120110311" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/japan-quake-nuclea...</a> "US did not deliver coolant to Japan nuclear reactor"<p>"Ultimately, however, Japan did not need assistance from the United States but Clinton did not appear to have been updated before she made her public remarks."

0426: Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano says radioactive meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors at the plant - AFP. via BBC

Lol... This is from one of the comments below the article (I did not write this):<p>"Feet? Degrees Fahrenheit? This is so funny. How many feet wide is your nuclear reactor core? How many stones does it weigh? Surely this must be a joke.<p>The article is laden with namedropping but has no information at all on all crucial points such as the actual explosion. That anyone takes this seriously escapes me.<p>And, seriously? Measurements in body part lengths? Any engineer who went to school must have learned the proper system. I seriously doubt this article is genuine."<p>I kind of agree. Japanese reactors do not use feet or retarded Fahrenheit scale. If you write a scientific article, use a proper scale and SI standard of measurements in order to be taken seriously (hint, hint, nudge, nudge).