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Today cooling operations have continued on problem reactors 3 and 4. The SDF used a number of fire engines with extendable arms to blast water down into the damaged roof of both units in an attempt to fill up the spent fuel pool with water. A total of 50 tonnes of water was delivered over a period of 40 minutes. Tonight a task force from the Tokyo Fire and Disaster Management Agency will attempt to keep water pouring on the third reactor. A plan had been devised to link up several fire trucks to shoot water over a long distance, but the damage caused by the earthquake made access difficult. However, the team managed to link up the fire trucks from a great distance to transport water over 300m in order to douse reactor unit 3 from a height of 22m. As of 00.30, the operation started and concluded at 00.50. There are also other teams attempting to install an external power source to return cooling operation to reactor units 1 and 2.
thanks for keeping this thread up to date posting news like this man

50tons... the same they delivered yesterday...
and i just remembered, on nhk they mentioned during a press conference that they estimate refilling the pools with 50tons per day should be sufficient to keep the water level stable.

so thats probably why they are doing this... to keep water levels steady until they got the original loop going again...

they always stopped to measure radiation... sounds like they thought the water was going to reduce radiation but it didnt...
so then the radiation is probably coming from the reactor3 and not the pool in reactor3...

Quote Originally Posted by Postmodum View Post
So, Japan is the country of the robots ... but nothing really useful huh? Maybe, instead of spending R&D on robots that go up and downstairs ... maybe something a little more useful for situations like this?

Damn... again ... i think there's lots of R&D resources spent on things which are of "dubious" utility ... and only in these situations, people understand that ...

Robots to play soccer ... Robots to dance ... but nothing that can really be useful in extreme situations ...

Bah...
well, to be fair, they built all those robots cause its challanging to make them do all this... and if you can build robots to do this, your getting closer and closer to a robot that can do all sorts of things... in the long run...

i think other countries are more focusing on practicality...