Posted on 04/05/2011 3:09:21 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
The operator of the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant has injected a hardening agent beneath a leaking concrete pit in a bid to stem the flow of highly radioactive water into the sea.
The firm says the leakage seems to be decreasing, following the infusion of the hardening agent.
...Tokyo Electric Power Company started infusing liquid glass into gravel below the pit near the Number 2 reactor at 3 PM on Tuesday.
TEPCO spotted a crack in the pit 3 days ago while trying to find the source of the leakage of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
...TEPCO is planning to board up the breached sections of an offshore dike to prevent the tainted water from spreading further into the sea.
It is also considering building underwater barriers at 3 locations, including one near a water intake for the Number 2 reactor.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 20:24 +0900 (JST)
(Excerpt) Read more at 3.nhk.or.jp ...
Oh no! What will the whiners and pantywaists wring their hands over now?
I do afford them credit and my prayers are with them.
“Oh no! What will the whiners and pantywaists wring their hands over now?”
OH CRUMBS!!!!! YOU BEAT ME TO IT!!!!
As I understand it, and I am nowhere near an expert, the release of the water is how they are avoiding meltdown. Also, ground motion was not what disturbed the reactors, but it was the overwhelming tsunami. Again, this is according to many reports.
And yes, if they did not release this water, it would be much worse for air breathers. They have decided to kill the fishes and save the humans. Tough choice if you ask me.
Not really. Man has dominion over the animals.
And please do not ask me who that image represents. Do not want them after me. You will have to figure that out on your own.
Or “I’d Rather Be Fission.”
I have not paid too much attention to this event since I had to basically tell a few IDIOTIC FReepers that the sky was not falling an we are not going to all die (from radiation).
I like to believe we FReepers are tough, intelligent and rational beings, but this has really brought the wussies out of the bureau (or wherever the wussies hide). Thanks for the post.
The word out now is that it has stopped as per Tepco.
Journalism graduate lexicon:
Decreasing: what a launderer does
Lessening: what a journalism teacher does
The radioactive water is coming from the spent fuel pools. Those are outside the concrete containment building which houses the reactor.
Source???
They are using feed and bleed on the reactors and spent fuel storage.
This is an interesting post from a nuclear engineer.
http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3231498&postcount=2987
So are they incompetent or were the numbers right and they are backtracking because of what those numbers would mean.
Fukushima Daiichi Reactors 5-6 Stability Under Threat 04.04.11
Can never open those physicsforum threads. Fails to find website.
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