Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
thanks!
the water was all gone since it avaporated, as it couldnt be cooled, and then was vented into the air or escaped when the pressure tank blew, which is what tore the roof off, right?
so now they use sea water to cool the reactor which is good, but what happens to the sea water? how do they cool it? or is it just evaporating and escaping just as the original cooling water did?
sure you dont know, but im curious what your thoughts are...

and yeah i think this is way overhyped by the media...

what do you think about the monitoring stations around the plant picking up massive radiation and detecting radioactive caesium and iodine? doesnt that mean the core has at least a minor leak? how else could those have escaped into the environment? through the cooling system??
the seawater containing bor acid (which is only used when u actually want to stop a meltdown) will evapor into the air. there is no way to fill it into a closed cooling cycle, also there should be no reason to do so, if the cooling cycle is still closed. so we have to expect the core to be open.
i donīt think that media is overhyping this at all. think of tschernobyl 25yrs ago. michail gorbatschow was informed of the meltdown by sweden, not his own people.