Jack-

Yes, the current reports are certainly more revealing, as we might expect, and this continuing event was indeed a "disaster" within the first 24 hours.

The initial posts on this thread make interesting reviewing, as posters speculated on what might or might not be occurring. Of course, it took us about a month to convince "Mudcat Central" to change this thread name from "Nuclear Plant Disaster Looming" to "Nuclear Plant Disaster."

Currently the Fukushima-1 nuclear complex is being overwhelmed with huge volumes of radioactive sea water, mixed with oil and other debris, and the new processing plant is not scheduled to be on-line for another two weeks. It's unclear to the Union of Concerned Scientists whether this plant will be capable of keeping up with new volumes of radioactive water pumped in each day, let alone reducing the inventory of what has accumulated in the various turbine halls, basements, trenches, and holding tanks; it is at least a start.

Charley Noble