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Originally Posted by CraigS
Here's a photo of a fuel storage pool. The caption reads:
"A fuel storage pool in the Fukushima plant reactor building. Surrounding this and reactors like it is a containment vessel, the last line of defense if cooling fails."
(from NY Times).
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Hi Craig,
Thanks for the photo. Alas the pool is outside the primary containment area
and only in the secondary area, which is the outer building which has been damaged.
This New York Times short video shows their location graphically -
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/wo...9japan.html?hp
New York Times also has this excellent interactive step-by-step graphic showing
more detail of the pools under the heading "Hazards of Storing Spent Fuel"
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2....html?ref=asia
Here is a link to a PDF of a PowerPoint presentation dated 16 Nov 2010
by Yumiko Kumano of the Tokyo Electric Power Company entitled
"Integrity Inspection of Dry Storage Casks and Spent Fuels at Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station".
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/acc...powerpoint.pdf