covering

English translation: had roof on

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English term or phrase:covering
Selected answer:had roof on
Entered by: Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani

22:34 Aug 23, 2016
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Science - Nuclear Eng/Sci
English term or phrase: covering
Unlike in Units 1, 3 and 4, the Unit 2 reactor building was still covering the Unit 2 spent fuel pool, and consequently the spray method for replenishing pool water could not be used for Unit 2.

Units refer to nuclear units.
Spent fuel pools are pools to store spent fuels.
Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani
Türkiye
Local time: 22:28
had roof on
Explanation:
Unit 2 reactor building had not had its roof blown away by hydrogen explosion, so the roof did prevent spraying water into the pool from above

This assumes that you are still working oin the Fukushima Daichi accident, see this report describing the helicopters used to drop water onto the spent fuel pools of buildings 3 and 4, with "building housing reactor No. 2 was "slightly damaged"":
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-fuel-fukus...
Full timeline with hydrogen explosions and photos of the roofless buuilding 1, etc:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/multimedia/0312-fuku...
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Didier Fourcot
Local time: 21:28
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4 +3had roof on
Didier Fourcot
4 +2building walls still intact
Hassan Lotfy
3 -1responsible for
David Hollywood


  

Answers


24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
responsible for


Explanation:
that's the way I read it

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Note added at 25 mins (2016-08-23 23:00:03 GMT)
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but not too much to go on so...

David Hollywood
Local time: 16:28
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: more than enough info available to see that it's about another type of "covering"
22 hrs
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
had roof on


Explanation:
Unit 2 reactor building had not had its roof blown away by hydrogen explosion, so the roof did prevent spraying water into the pool from above

This assumes that you are still working oin the Fukushima Daichi accident, see this report describing the helicopters used to drop water onto the spent fuel pools of buildings 3 and 4, with "building housing reactor No. 2 was "slightly damaged"":
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-fuel-fukus...
Full timeline with hydrogen explosions and photos of the roofless buuilding 1, etc:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/multimedia/0312-fuku...

Didier Fourcot
Local time: 21:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: yes, literal meaning. Good explanation: the intact roof prevented water being sprayed from above
2 hrs

agree  Yasutomo Kanazawa
2 hrs

agree  Daryo: yes, here it's simply the most literal meaning - there was still a roof above the pool.
13 hrs
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58 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
building walls still intact


Explanation:
specially the roof

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2016-08-25 02:43:24 GMT)
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the Unit 2 reactor building (including walls, roof and other structural elements) was still covering the Unit 2 spent fuel pool

Hassan Lotfy
Egypt
Local time: 21:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jörgen Slet
3 hrs
  -> Many Thanks

agree  Yvonne Gallagher
11 hrs
  -> Many Thanks

agree  Yasutomo Kanazawa
12 hrs
  -> Many Thanks

disagree  Daryo: no one would assume that "walls" includes a roof
22 hrs
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