Nope, not if the boric acid/boron cant penetrate into the corium. No good if it just lands on top.

Keep your eyes on 5+6 guys, theres big trouble brewing there.

And they contain the most amount of fuel, in hundreds of tonnes.

They said the other day they were getting some big readings from the spent fuel pool. And I notice they have been very very quiet about those two REACTORS.

I saw also a simulation (somewhere) showing a computer representation of the tsunami 1000 years ago that went up nearly 600 feet the side of coastline mountains!

It looked like someone dropping a housebrick in a childs paddling pool!!

Apperently there are ancient carvings on rocks that say

"dont build below this point"

or words to that effect.And those rocks are 600 feet up.

So its not as if they didnt know. I read a book not long ago called "a single pebble" look it up, its well worth the read. Basicly it describes the true story of a 24 year old american engineer sent to china to traverse the (cant remember the name of the river lol) anyway the bloody great big one! with three gorges. So he was supposed to be looking for a good site to build a hydro electric dam. This was I think the early nineteen twenties. So there was america trying to do this way back then. They decided not to after realising what would happen if they did. (too big,costly, weight of water etc etc)

Then just the other day someone said something about "stupid japs" and someone countered with " well, you DO realise that fukushima was built by an american engineer, working for a american company, using an american design!"

Not running down americans, just saying that the "best" minds in the business put it all togeather.

Just goes to show that we have forgotten how dangerous nuclear energy really is.

We have quite the wake up call now though.........