These recently released images give a glimpse of what the plant looked like in late April. Some mistakenly thought they were taken more recently.
There are a few new views and some interesting shots of tsunami damage. I did some enlargement and enhancement to make viewing easier.
Reactor 1, north side of the building. The crane track is still intact on the work deck.
Reactor 3, land side south corner
R3, land side. Notice the garage is still intact.
R3, north landside corner
R3, land side. Good view of the back side of the tool pit (far left) and view into the lower floors.
R3, land side from below
R4, landside
R4 landside. A couple of notes on this one. The top left corner has a slight curve to it due to no north wall support. The break in the supports
of the south facing wall can be seen, the right corner has not started to bend in and roof trussing in the middle looks intact.
The garage at ground level has blown out wall panels indicating the blast happened all the way down to the ground level.
This brings into question the condition of lower level inner structures.
Also note the right corner, below the "4" panel. The lower horizontal grid section is broken out.
R4, landside. Left corner has a slight curve to the wall.
r4, another land side view.
r4 from below. The left wall has a bow to it. A lens distortion doesn't explain the bow, there isn't a compensating distortion on the other side of
the view. R3's wall can also be seen next to it, in a straight vertical fashion.
r4, another view from the north
R4, south side. Missing wall & roof bracing is visible. In newer images the blue wall panel below the crane seems to be more missing.
R4 close up of the crane and SFP
Another view of the south end of r4
Dock side tank twisted by the tsunami
More damaged tanks near the docks.
Tank that appears to be displaced
Tanks near one of the exhaust towers, notice the car.
Hole cut in the turbine building facing R1.
Some of the fire hose system being used.
Hoses run between the buildings
