Reply #5: You were "told" that by people who didn't know.

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You have since been told that they weren't (after visual inspection). The radiation levels (and lack of tons of smoke) bear this out.

And in fact from what I've read, a pool with a small amount of water is more dangerous than an empty pool.

What you've read is wrong.

Rods will still melt and with low water levels, and with water present criticality could be achieved.

A ridiculously small chance of that. You're thinking of the water slowing down neutrons so that fission could begin? First you have to get unlocky enough for a critical mass to form in a workable configuration and then you have to get a neutron to start things off... where's it going to come from?

Regardless... the FAR FAR more dangerous/likely scenario would involve an uncontrolled fire in that pool... and SOME level of water obviously helps that.

Just because they have power back at 5 & 6 means little since those two were never really a problem

It certainly helps. Those pools were heating up too... just slower since there wasn't any damage.

But power lines have also reached #1 and #2... they just haven't turned it on yet.