Posted on 04/02/2011 12:57:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Crack in concrete called source of radioactive water leaking into sea
By the CNN Wire Staff
April 2, 2011 -- Updated 0719 GMT (1519 HKT)
Tokyo (CNN) -- Highly radioactive water from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from a cracked concrete sump near the No. 2 reactor, an official with the plant's owner said Saturday.
Water from the two-meter deep, concrete-lined basin could be seen escaping into the sea through a roughly 20-cm (8-inch) crack, an official the Tokyo Electric Power Company told reporters Saturday afternoon. But the company could not explain how the water was getting into the sump, which is a pit in which liquid collects.
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Seems like a waste of perfectly good radiation. Maybe they can figure out how to make use of the radioactive seawater to power cars, lawn mowers, BBQ grills, iPads, etc.
“You go in there.”
“No, YOU go in there!”
Beneath the cement, dirt.
That’s a little too true for Russia. I had dinner with a Russian nuclear scientist who told us all about a talk he was to give to an international body of scientists gathering in Georgia (USA). He was excited to be the one to brag to the foreign scientists about Russia’s innovations to remove the problem of radioactive waste (shortly before Chernobyl) . This was in the 1980’s. He stood up and began to tell them all about the way that Russia had conserved the waste by mixing them into concrete used to make schools and hospitals. First one scientist jumped to his feet to call to him “Please tell me this isn’t true!” then another. Pandemonium ensued as the audience recoiled in horror. My friend sheepishly said that Russia didn’t understand the health impacts very well and assumed that dilution with concrete was sufficient and believed that all the furor in the west about what to do with nuclear waste really had more to do with an unwillingness to waste valuable resources.
Lol, though it suggests that if it were spread thinly enough, it would be OK to put in an ordinary sanitary landfill.
Is that why concrete trucks have that long slide on them — to keep the radioactive concrete far away from you...
With Chernobyl, the reactor burned down, but at least there were brave souls to put the fire out.
Maybe plugging this hole may reduce the atmospheric radiation as well... [Can't hurt]
Reading up on Russia’s nuclear history is astonishing. They did use dump trucks and and at some point, to solve a problem with rusting steel containers, they just backed the trucks up and dumped radioactive waste straight into a lake. They did that until the lake became highly radioactive. At which point they decided to fill in the lake with dirt and rocks (bury the radiation) until one of their scientists convinced them that doing so would force the radioactive water into the surrounding ground water. So it remains...ahem...a problem. Unbelievable stuff really....but true. There was a chemical explosion at the site (originally believed to have been spontaneous nuclear reaction from just dumping radioactive waste like that - turned out to be chemical explosion though) the force of which blew radioactive material into the surrounding area and knocked down trees (visible on satellite photos) but the Russians say it never happened...
the great atomic lake?
US Workers Wanted In Japan To Help Crippled Nuke Plants
Now's your time to save the world from this 'non-crisis".
Next time maybe you will not be so condescending like a liberal democrat.
I totally agree!
Ant to all those who kept spewing “No big deal...” then why don’t you just get off your rear and go over there and help with the cleanup?
You can join the 50 or so Japanese workers who will or have already died from radiation poisoning!
I am so fed up with this situation it’s almost unbearable. How many years have the “EXPERTS” told us that we shouldn’t use teflon pans? That we should stay away from lead and mercury of all types? That ANY exposure to pesticides or insecticides is gonna turn us into a drooling mutant with six toes?
And now the “EXPERTS” are “Well, it’s no big deal...”
This amounts to a complete FN jerk...
I don’t care if it will kill me or turn me into a Saint, I just want SOMEBODY to tell me THE TRUTH!!
has noone thought to start pouring some dye eliminating each suspected location in turn? there must be a huge amount of water leaking for the readings to be off the chart
I really can't blame them as it was I who chose to believe them. I thought they knew what they were talking about so I followed. For me it's easier to detect falses in politics and foreign affairs but when it comes to the science of nuclear plants I have to depend on what I'm being told. Yeah, it my fault for listening.
If I had known the truth I would have prayed for the crisis more but why pray for a “non-crisis” in an already torn up place with others problems created by the earthquake and tsunami.
Maybe some of us would have worked harder to actually try to network and perhaps get lucky by the will of God and make a connection with someone who did have a solution. But why would we be encouraged to do that if it were a “non-crisis”.
As I said, it was me that believed and followed those that claimed Three Mile Island was many times worse and we have the freedom of speech which I would die for them and us to all to have. I believed... the buck stops at me.
I imagined if that accident had happened near my city. I'd have stayed right here convinced that all was ok. It could have been my life. But again, I believed, I followed and that my own responsibility and fault.
There are a few American Freepers in Japan. I only hope they did not make the same mistake I did.
I think they are showing a crack in the ceiling, too, since they can’t show the other one. The one in the video is certainly not 8 inches wide. I wonder how (if) they reinforced that concrete.
They also used the material to make portable heaters. They were great in Siberia. Required no electricity, oil or other fuel. Just huddle close and it would keep you warm.
“You can join the 50 or so Japanese workers who will or have already died from radiation poisoning!”
Nobody has died from radiation poisoning, not yet. The worst injury so far is burns to the legs when a guy who failed to wear proper protective equipment walked through some contaminated water.
You just might want to take a valium or two.
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