Early photos of Fukushima Daiichi

Earlier, a photograph was posted on Mike Ruppert's FB page purporting to show a 2013 photo of Reactor no. 4 with “the reactor well and tool pit (key-hole shaped) are completely visible and full of water. The spent fuel pool is clearly visable at the top right and intact” This is supposed to indicate that the “ FOIA documents are at best inaccurate”

These selected photos from 2011 are very hard to square with the above photo and give a good sense of the damage to reactors 3 and 4 from the explosions.

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Early Photos

Cryptome,

28 April, 2013

On February 1, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power released over 100 Zipped files containing several hundred photos of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station taken from time of the tsunami on March 11, 2011 to April 11, 2011. They are among the earliest TEPCO photos which show the initial damage by the tsunami, aftermath of the explosions and efforts to survey, control and stabilize the plant. Most have not been widely published. These are selections

Appearance of Unit 3 Reactor Building after explosion. Photo taken on 2011.3.15

Appearance of Unit 3 Reactor Building after explosion. Photo taken on 2011.3.15

Appearance of Units 3 (L), 4 (R) Reactor Buildings. Photo taken on 2011.3.15

Conditions around Unit 4. Photo taken on 2011.3.18

Conditions around Unit 4. Photo taken on 2011.3.18

Conditions around Units 3 (L), 2 (C). Photo taken on 2011.3.18

Conditions around seaside of Unit 4 Turbine. Photo taken on 2011.3.18

Conditions around seaside of Units 4 (L), 3 (R) Turbines. Photo taken on 2011.3.18

Water discharge into Unit 3 Reactor Building. Photo taken on 2011.3.18

In this March 24, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE, damaged Unit 3, left, and Unit 4 of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. (Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan)

In this March 20, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE, damaged Unit 4, left, and Unit 3 of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. (Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan)

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