The cracked wall near the water intake of No. 2 reactor (at Fukushima No. 1 Plant.) Contaminated (radioactive) water is seen gushing out (to sea.)
Posted on 04/02/2011 12:57:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
>> Concrete sir.....cement is glue
Indeed. Thank you for the correction.
OMG, is that a true story?
Yes. That was my friend - a Russian immigrant to the US. He became a citizen. He was ashamed by the fact that they were proud of this ‘accomplishment’.
Russia’s scientific history is littered with such seemingly impossible contradictions.
Here’s a typical story of Russia’s nuclear storage travails from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster_
“The Mayak plant was built in a great hurry between 1945 and 1948. Gaps in Soviet physicists’ knowledge about nuclear physics at the time made it difficult to judge the safety of many decisions. Also, environmental concerns were not taken seriously during the early development stage. All six reactors were on Lake Kyzyltash and used an open cycle cooling system within that lake Schlager, Neil (1994). Initially Mayak was dumping high-level radioactive waste into a nearby river, which was taking waste to the river Ob, flowing farther down to the Arctic Ocean. Later on, Lake Karachay was used for open-air storage.[1]”
So in addition to using ‘open cycle cooling’ (running fresh water into the plant and pumping the radioactive water bck out into the lake) they would just back trucks up to lakes and dump the nuclear sludge in. That particular lake suffered a chemical explosion that blew radioactive waste into the surrounding area and knocked down trees (visible from satellite photos):
“Because of the secrecy surrounding Mayak, the populations of affected areas were not initially informed of the accident. A week later (on 6 October) an operation for evacuating 10,000 people from the affected area started, still without giving an explanation of the reasons for evacuation. People “grew hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown ‘mysterious’ diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin ‘sloughing off’ their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies.”[6] It was Zhores Medvedev who revealed the nature and extent of the disaster to the world.”
When a lake they were dumping in became heavily radioactive, they decided to fill it in with rocks and dirt (bury it). But their scientists said that this would force radioactivity into the ground water of the region so the problem was never corrected. This was a long time ago so when I checked on it recently, I find articles saying that more open ponds and lakes are being used to ‘store’ radioactive waste. Here’s an example from 2010:
“The most catastrophic situation is in the zone of Mayak Production Association which still dumps and stores radioactive wastes in open waters of the lakes Kyzyltash, Karachay, Old Swamp and Tatysh in Asanovskih marshes, as well as in four water reservoirs of Techensky Cascade, surrounded by wetland. The banks of the river Techa are also contaminated.” http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/08/15/12391.shtml
Parts of the country are contaminated with radioactive waste and that particular article was talking about a heat wave and drought that was kicking up dust and spreading radioactive contaminants further. Then contaminated forests catch fire in the summer heat and more radiation is blown across the continent. Amazing and tragic. Rarely are the people informed and often they are not protected or treated.
The cracked wall near the water intake of No. 2 reactor (at Fukushima No. 1 Plant.) Contaminated (radioactive) water is seen gushing out (to sea.)
BTW - Was looking into buying a radiation monitor for my Kalifornia business. Want to guarantee my products are radiation free while on the road. At any rate - These supply companies are being over whelmed with orders. And you wont believe from who. Here is one excerpted example.
JUST RECENTLY OUR US GOVERNMENT BOUGHT UP ALL OF THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE FREEZE DRIED LONG TERM FOOD - THERE IS VIRTUALLY NONE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE FOR THE AVERAGE JOE TO GET PREPARED. NOW THEY HAVE PURCHASED ALL THE RADSTICKERS FOR USE IN JAPAN, ONCE AGAIN LEAVING US WITHOUT. WHAT'S NEXT? - IS IT POSSIBLE THEY WILL BUY ALL THE POTASSIUM IODIDE AND LEAVE US AT THEIR BECKON MERCY?
That looks like 9 cubic meters per hour for unit 2. A meter is roughly a little over a yard (3.28 feet). So a cube of water a little less then 30 feet wide, tall and deep. Every hour. Excerpted from.
Actually that leak rate roughly appears to be some amount less then they are pumping into unit #2. The given rate is roughly 140,000 gallons per hour. So some of the water must be escaping as steam, leaking elsewhere or being partially collected somewhere. Just numbers off the top of my head using a basic calculator.
That would be closer to a cube 10 feet wide tall and deep.
I guess it would only be a cube under 7 feet. Its late.
PM advisor: effort to stop radioactive leakage
He added that the main task for now should shift to halting the leakage of radioactive elements within a few months.
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110403D03JF855.htm
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Govt Says Several Months May Be Required Before Radiation Leaks Stop
TOKYO (Kyodo)—The government expects that several months may be required before radioactive particles stop being released from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, its top spokesman said Sunday.
‘’If we apply methods considered to be normal, I believe that it will be something like that,’’ Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference, when asked whether at least several months would be required before the plant crippled by the devastating March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami is brought under control.
‘’While it may not be feasible, we have been asking for other possibilities to be explored to shorten that period,’’ Edano said, noting that the government and the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. are considering multiple approaches to halting the nuclear crisis.
Chemical, sawdust, newspaper mix used to plug leak at nuclear plant
By the CNN Wire Staff
April 3, 2011 — Updated 1015 GMT (1815 HKT)
Tokyo (CNN) — Workers on Sunday poured a chemical compound mixed with sawdust and newspaper into a crack at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility that's been a conduit for highly radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean, a utility company official said.
This follows an unsuccessful attempt a day earlier to use concrete to plug the 2-meter-deep (6.5-foot-deep), concrete-lined basin, where authorities had found water gushing directly into the sea via a roughly 20-centimeter crack.
Eighty bags of a water-gel mix made by the Tokyo-based IB Daiwa company will be used in the operation. Each one contains 100 grams of material that includes a special polymer. A Tokyo Electric official said the substance should expand to several thousand times its size as it sticks, ideally, to plug the leak.
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