20121017
Registered new nic 'TerryHertz', and made first post in the thread

http://enenews.com/watch-empty-spaces-fukushima-unit-3-spent-fuel-racks-ordinarily-hold-spent-fuel-asahi-video-photos

My post: http://enenews.com/watch-empty-spaces-fukushima-unit-3-spent-fuel-racks-ordinarily-hold-spent-fuel-asahi-video-photos/comment-page-1#comment-296081
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omniversling, thanks for the compliment to my Unit3 explosion analysis "Message_of_Fuku3".
There's also http://everist.org/archives/Fukushima/comparison_preview6.png though that's still unfinished.

While we don't know which SFP slots originally held fuel assemblies, so we can't be _sure_ the visible empty slots imply anything, it certainly is suggestive. In the video and photos I also don't see any fuel assembly handles sticking up through the rubble either. Not one. Though, the images only cover  small areas of the racks. Typical TEPCO. Why can't they post ALL the images?

In my analysis of the SFP prompt criticality cause, I suggested the violent conversion of volumes of the SFP water to steam due to neutron pulses may not have damaged the racks much if at all, since the only unbalanced steam pressure would be fairly evenly directed upwards.
But seeing these images, I can't help wondering if some (many?) of the complete fuel assemblies may have been launched upwards as well, by the forces associated with the high velocity steam. So far as I know they just sit in the racks, and are not bolted down in any way. I can imagine that once any such 'fired upwards' fuel assemblies were in the high velocity jet, they'd have been ground to small pieces. The racks however are probably bolted down, so remained in place.

Btw, I am no longer able to post on enenews as TerraHertz.
Here's why: http://everist.org/archives/Fukushima/ene_boat_crap/

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ha ha ha... You guys really are cunts, huh?