boiling waters adjacent to fukushima reactors, page-20

The reactors are in cold shutdown, as I said. No one has ever said the reactors are cold!

Cold shutdown, as you have described, means the reactor cooling system is at atmospheric pressure and the system remains stable as long as cooling water continues to circulate.

Cold shutdown is declared when the cooling water doesn't boil at atmospheric pressure.. At Fukushima, the water is far below boiling (30-40C from memory) in all reactors and has been that way since late 2011.

Further, 800 tonnes of cooling water per day is not really a lot of water to circulate, despite what it sounds. A typical garden hose is about 5 t/h (ie: 120 t/day). What you are talking about is about 3 garden hoses worth of sea water and three garden hoses worth of recirculated water to keep the system cool. This amount, although vitally important, is chicken feed for almost any industrial process.

Much of the stored contaminated water is from heavy rainfall collecting in bunded areas last year. Not all is highly contaminated, but it is still contaminated all the same and awaiting ongoing decontamination processing.