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Originally Posted by Mr Speirs
I thought this too. They can't get power to the generators to restore water cooling. So get some mobile generators and get on with it.
However I guess if the Tsunami took out the generators why would they not have taken out the water pumps the generators powers?
The wave has probably broken many more components of the cooling system than just the generators powering them.
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Possible, though that's not what they are saying on the news, they are saying that they need to restore power to get the pumps running again, and that the pumps were running fine on generators, then on fine on batteries, and that power seems to be the issue, but they don't need more power than can be obtained from batteries or generators?
I just smell a rat, what the news agencies are being told doesn't stack up to the layman, and usually news agencies don't sit back and accept what they are told, and I have had CNN and BBC on in the background for a few days now, and there have been lots of experts come on the TV and explained, why does it need water, what is a nuclear meltdown, what has caused these explosions, all of which they have been able to explain to the layman.
Why is nobody asking on of these experts to explain why it's so difficult to supply power to these pumps?
My work has on one site, 8 diesel generators, supplying 4 datacentres, with 10 megawatts of power, and each one of these things is commercially available and no bigger than a long wheelbase transit van.