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Re:Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant by uxp on Saturday March 12, 2011 @04:50AM (#2316489)
This picture just appeared on Wikipedia, of which I am guessing is the building that may or may not be the one that possibly exploded. Maybe someone more knowledgable than myself can identify what the building is used for. The 2011 Sendai earthquake article says " the outer structure of reactor number 1's containment building had blown off, releasing a large cloud of dust and vapour."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2011-03-12_1800_NHK_S%C5%8...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsun...

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Re:Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant by rwmj on Saturday March 12, 2011 @05:48AM (#2316581)
Wikipedia deletionists have already put a speedy deletion tag on that. Go Wikipedia!
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Re:Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant by nossralf on Saturday March 12, 2011 @06:25AM (#2316620)
http://www.ansn-jp.org/jneslibrary/npp2.pdf

That PDF has a schematic of the containment building on page 4. The "MARK-I" image corresponds to the Fukushima I-1 building.

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Re:Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant by uvdiv on Saturday March 12, 2011 @06:38AM (#2316637)
More detailed cutaways:

http://i.imgur.com/Oj4kg.png

http://i.imgur.com/CckjP.jpg

from, respectively,

Madgi Ragheb, UIUC https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mragheb/www/NPRE%20457%20CSE%20462...

NRC http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/03.pdf

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Re:Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant by uvdiv on Saturday March 12, 2011 @05:02AM (#2316508)
I have no clue what's going on (and I Am Not An Engineer), but I'm fairly sure that in this photo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Fukushima...

The longer, rectangular buildings on the seaside are the turbine halls, and the square buildings next to them (in the inland direction) are the containment buildings.

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Re:Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant by po on Saturday March 12, 2011 @05:40AM (#2316566)
That's correct. Of the four, it's the small building on the right that is reactor number one: the one that is melting down.
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