They say a picture tells a thousand words.
Here are a few thousand words.
You see that First Column? All the reds and Yellows?
Well This is that column in pictures
see the third column?
See the one red thing on the 4th column?
So all that Red and Yellow on Reactor 2?
yeah, it's just damage on the inside.
There are a lot of happy talkers who want you to believe that Reactor 2 is just fine
and it's wonderful and it's going to be great because
looks just great.
Sorry, Rac 2 is as damaged on the inside as Rac 1,3,4 are damaged on the outside.
i believe Reactors 2 and 3 have lost integrity and are bleeding radioactive water.
The reason i believe this is because neither of them is reporting pressure. The gaugues are within limits to zero. Now some of the users here claim that absence of data means the reactor is just fine, but, if the damage is severe enough to be knocking out the gauges, then it's bad and if the gauges are working and reporting zero, it's bad.
Reactor 2 has lost primary containment.
The Japanese appear to be getting control of Units 5,6 the spent fuel pools and
Daini 1,2,3 but, be very cautious. A single yellow goes red fast.
The Japanese are pumping seawater on systems not designed for seawater.
Things have been shook hard by richter 7 movement, things got hit by 7 meters of tsunami. Aftershocks are still coming.
a fire in Pool 5 or 6, pool 4 bursting out again.
(Follow this link it's a pic of a stainless steel tank leaking from salt water corrosion)
water heater leak
how long the pumps, the electricals, the valves hold up?
UPDATE:
Reactor 1 is now in overheat. All cooling systems are now failing.
http://www.todayonline.com/...
Mr Hidehiko Nishiyama, the deputy-director general of Japan's nuclear safety agency, later said the smoke at reactor No 3 had stopped and there was only a small amount at No 2.
He gave no more details, but a TEPCO executive vice-president, Mr Sakae Muto, said the core of reactor No 1 was now a worry with its temperature at about 390°C.
"We need to strive to bring that down a bit," he told a news conference, adding that the reactor was built to run at a temperature of 302°C.
Asked if the situation at the problem reactors was getting worse, Mr Muto said: "We need more time. It's too early to say that they are sufficiently stable."
Radiation 1,600 times higher than normal levels was detected 20km from the power station, the limit of the evacuation area. While radiation at that level is not considered high for a single burst, it could harm health if sustained.
so it's now 70 Degrees above the melting point of lead in Reactor 1. God help any electronic devices or boards or soldered joints in the primary. This is now above Lead and Tin, bismuth or arsenics melting points.
The temperature is not too bad, they may lose 15% of strength, but hi strength alloys are good for another 70 C.