Three other reactor buildings at the site are also badly damaged, but their pools hold fewer used assemblies. The concerns are also raising questions about whether Japan’s all-out effort to convince its citizens that nuclear power is safe kept the authorities from exploring other — and some say safer — options for storing used fuel rods. Attention has focused on Unit 4’s spent fuel pool because of the large number of assemblies filled with rods that are stored high above the ground at that severly damaged reactor building. The public’s fears about the pool have grown in recent months as some scientists have warned that it has the most potential for setting off a new catastrophe, now that the three nuclear reactors that suffered meltdowns are in a more stable state, and as frequent quakes continue to rattle the region. Doctors warned the family that even if Nahomy awoke, she was almost certain to have brain damage because of how long she was in the water.
Nahomy spent a few days in the hospital recovering and undergoing tests to make sure she was OK. In the not so distant past Bourne also had its own hospital that once stood on the site now occupied by housing opposite the main frontage of Elsea Park. She’s perfectly healthy now and has no lingering effects from the harrowing experience. She’s a daddy’s girl. The couple spent that night in the small room with their little girl as she fought for her life. Hydrostatic pressure is one of the main reasons why so little of the ocean’s floor has been explored. Now, news reports say, many face rebuilding with little financial help. The Leóns shared their story with the AP before news this weekend that the 2-year-old daughter of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett drowned in a swimming pool at the family’s home. Fourteen months after the accident, a pool brimming with used fuel rods and filled with vast quantities of radioactive cesium still sits on the top floor of a heavily damaged reactor building, covered only with plastic. Attention has focused on No. 4’s spent fuel pool because of the large number of assemblies filled with rods that are stored at that reactor building.
The worst-case situations for Reactor No. 4 would be for the pool to run dry if there is another problem with the cooling system and the rods catch fire, releasing enormous amounts of radioactive material, or for fission to restart if the metal panels that separate the rods are knocked over in a quake. Bubbles are a sign that there’s unsightly rust under the pretty paint job. There are some details, such as the fill rule that ensures that each pixel is drawn only once (except for backside vertices, as noted above), but basically subdivision rasterization boils down to taking a triangle, splitting a side that has at least one undrawn pixel and drawing the vertex at the split, and repeating the process for each of the two new triangles. The No. 4 reactor is visibly damaged and in a fragile state, down to the floor that holds the spent fuel pool,” said Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute. Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute and one of the experts raising concerns. The fears over the pool at Reactor No. 4 are helping to undermine assurances by Tepco and the Japanese government that the Fukushima plant has been stabilized, and are highlighting how complicated the cleanup of the site, expected to take decades, will be.
After his recent visit to the ravaged plant, he said the pool at No. 4 poses “an extraordinary and continuing risk” and the retrieval of spent fuel “should be a priority, given the possibility of further earthquakes.”The worries picked up new traction in recent days after the operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, said it had found a slight bulge in one of the walls of the reactor building, stoking fears over the building’s safety. Much of the long term savings come from installing energy efficient splash pad equipment and plumbing in a pool. But when he joined the Rangers this season, he finally got the number that means so much to his family. Everything came back clean, and the family got to go home. Last year, several family members were reminiscing about what happened to Nahomy and her remarkable recovery in a group text. The next 72 hours, they said, would be crucial in discovering what toll this had taken on Nahomy. The Leóns were encouraged, but doctors still cautioned that Nahomy could have physical difficulties. The medical team told the Leóns they couldn’t explain Nahomy’s recovery. A groggy Sandy woke up at 6:30 the next morning and couldn’t believe his eyes.