Severts, micro severts...being inundated with new vocabulary. They upped the levels that the reactor workers can legally be allowed to work within, some immediate amendment or else the place would have to be vacated. The fire department and national defense force people are also involved in the attempts to cool, rotating them in and out. Nobody is saying anything about what the effects will be for those people, just mention of gratitude.
Fortunately they have at last brought in an electrical hookup to power pumps and make some monitoring possible. Even so, they don't know to what degree the pumping systems or other important elements are operational after the explosions. Rerouting electrical systems and such, they have their hands full. Hopefully it will to some degree at least allow the beginning of a more reliable approach to getting things under control. They don't seem to know what the water situation is in the spent fuel rod pools, none in there, a little or a lot. Some guy on tv was saying from an aerial photo that "the little white thing" appears to be water. :roll:
Based on the quake safety systems having worked splendidly to begin with, this deal perhaps not be cause to see nuclear power in general in the death throws. It does call for not being dumb to all the possibilities that can happen. Hell, the experts there, all they had to do was look a hundred yards away to see one real big possibility.
