I can’t prove it but I think the lid of Fukushima 1-3 is lying atop the wreckage where it landed after being blasted 400 feet straight up in a spew of reactor guts.
Explosion of #3 directed straight up, and forcefully so. This happens when “up” is the easiest direction to go, which would be the case if the lid gives way while the walls hold together.
You can see crap raining down from that plume. Big heavy crap. I said *at the time* that the object on the left was the primary containment lid.
The footage of the 1-3 (second) explosion is shot from the south-west. The tower in the foreground is aligned with the corner of the #3 building from the camera’s perspective. The big heavy thing on the left comes down in an apparent location consistent with my landing spot.
Here are some spectacular shots. In particular, see the fourth reactor photo, which looks nearly straight down on the #3 building. Just to the right of the ruined latticeworks (what used to be the roof support), you can make out a dark circular object, filled/covered with debris. It even seems to cast a circular edge shadow on the lower level of the building just to the right.
Here’s some amazing video: Between 4:43 and 4:53 you can see the edge of a large circular object poking in the left edge of the view. This is right where my landing spot is. I know–I walked the video against detailed photos identifying every little thing along the way. That circular rim is seen on top of debris, halfway east and west, at just about the north edge of building #3. It sure didn’t start there.
Like I said, I can’t prove it. So I am genuinely unsure about this. It could be a few tricks of light, shadow, and perspective. So I’m just putting this out here for folks to look at. I’m not the only person to have wondered this, although I haven’t seen anybody else tentative ID the lid.
But notice how you just don’t hear about the heavy stuff crashing back down (in the video) in the media. Reporters and experts all curiously uncurious.
Even so, I know that there are an awful lot of people working to contain this disaster at great risk and certain harm, and if I were a praying man, my prayers would be with them. Hopefully, they will accept by best wishes.
