Japan rocked and rolled and then got Waved

[fordman]

i do know this is a mess from what i am hearing. i sure hope the epa does the scanning around here like they did in california. dont eat or drink anything unless it has been factory sealed in a bottle or can. that kind of leaves you guys with pepsi and ravoli for meals.

[7DF250]

Here's the latest, radioactive water still flowing into the sea........

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/b ... quake.html

[novaboy009]

The last I heard from TEPCO and our engineers on the ground:
They think they found the crack in the reactor vessel that was leaking rcs liquid from unit 2 into the ocean. They built up an extremely thick layer of concrete with some boron mixed in. Effectiveness is to be determined. They are getting ready to use a fancy silt filtration system to trap the heavy radiation leak into the ocean. The low level stuff is probably going to end up in the ocean because they're running out of room on site to store all the water that's been exposed to the radiation.


UPDATE AS OF 11:30 A.M. EDT, MONDAY, APRIL 4:
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continued searching Monday for sources of contaminated water leaking from the site into the ocean.

Attempts to seal a crack in a concrete enclosure for cabling in reactor 2 are ongoing after initial efforts failed. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) injected a color tracer into the enclosure in an effort to track the flow of water. That test confirmed the radioactive water is from multiple sources. TEPCO is planning to install underwater silt barriers near the intake for reactor 2 to help contain the contaminated water.

Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) and Nuclear Safety Commission both said it will take several months to restore permanent core cooling for the damaged reactors. NISA said it will take that amount of time to remove contaminated water from the turbine buildings and restore damaged plant equipment.

To free up storage space for highly radioactive water in a waste disposal tank, TEPCO is seeking approval to discharge 11,500 tons of low-level radioactive water into the ocean. The utility said the radiation level in the water to be discharged is very low. TEPCO estimated that someone eating fish and seaweed from the adjacent water every day for a year would receive a total exposure of 60 millirem, less than a quarter of the average annual exposure from natural radiation.

Workers continue to inject cooling water into reactors 1, 2 and 3. In addition, spent fuel pools for reactors 1-4 are sprayed with fresh water as needed to keep them cool.

Radiation dose rates at the Daiichi site continue to fall. Recent readings showed 12.4 millirem per hour at the main gate, 7.4 millirem per hour at the west gate and 78 millirem per hour on the side of the administration building facing the reactors.

[7DF250]

Thanks for the update Novaboy! I hope they get that leak under control....... radiation levels increasing in fish......

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... quake.html

[7DF250]

Some good news for the ocean....... But looks like they are anticipating another Hydrogen explosion.......

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0406/ ... to-reactor

[7DF250]

Looks like this is as bad as Chernobyl.......

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/ ... SS20110412

I wonder if it can get any worse.....

[7DF250]

Here's the latest; http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0504/ ... ize-Unit-1

[7DF250]

MELTDOWN!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXDEEq_W2vo

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/late ... -2011.html

[fordman]

ABOUT TIME. IF IT DID.

[7DF250]

The Old Timers have volunteered .......respect your elders.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-31/worl ... s=PM:WORLD

Looks like the filter has broken down already.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world ... ml?_r=1&hp