Posted on 04/03/2011 1:29:25 PM PDT by SteveH
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says there has been no change in the amount of radioactive water seeping from the Fukushima nuclear plant after a polymer absorbent was injected into a cracked pit.
Tokyo Electric Power Company found on Saturday that contaminated water was leaking into the ocean from the 20-centimeter crack in the concrete pit.
On Sunday, the utility firm used a polymer absorbent to try to stop the leak of radioactive water.
The government's nuclear agency said the injection of the chemical began shortly after 1:40 PM, but it cannot confirm if there has been a decline in the amount of contaminated water leaking into the ocean.
The agency added that sawdust and newspapers were also used, but the absorbent did not reach the pipe. Engineers are now trying to mix the substance with the water.
(Excerpt) Read more at 3.nhk.or.jp ...
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“Sawdust and newspapers”?
A bunch of hillbillies running these plants?
Even clumping kitty litter would probably have worked better. There might be a network of internal cracks in the concrete housing. The paper and sawdust will just fill up the cracks, blocking them to more effective plugging agents, without doing much to the water flow.
Don’t let Anne Coulter hear this. She’ll sell the water as a anti-cancer elexir.
Coulter, and a lot of others, initially believed this was going to be something on par with Three Mile Island. The amount of radiation loosed in that incident was well within the hormesis range. That is old news and now everybody knows that Fukushima is an active hazard.
alternatively (wag) they could just recycle the water (?).
That leads me to believe that they're fixing in the wrong place.
Another guess is there must be more leaks. Do not see how that one leak could not cause a 2 x legal reading in seawater for Radioactive Iodine 30-40 km south of Fukushima (reading taken about 4 days ago).
In the best of all possible worlds (I know...), perhaps there would be filters to filter out the radioactivity from the water.
There are. They are pumping the water through the condensors, which exist for this purpose.
Newly Released TEPCO Data Provides Evidence of Periodic Chain Reaction at Fukushima Unit 1
WHAT CAUSED THE HIGH Cl-38 RADIOACTIVITY IN THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI REACTOR #1? PDF
The Tepco table referenced in the video above is linked on the below page. Cannot open it myself as I get a Bad Encrypt Dictionary Error.
He does not address the possibility of errors derived from the measurements themselves. Given the quality and quantity of information released to date from TEPCO and friends, and the lack of information on how the measurements themselves were taken and what analysis was performed, and the raw data, etc., it is might be difficult to build convincing theories one way or another. They are blazing a new trail so perhaps a lot of the equipment and personnel that they are using is just being broken in— for example, they may have some infant mortality problems in the hardware they are using to measure stuff. They should be taking multiple readings using multiple instruments but we do not necessarily see that, and we tend to assume that it happens as a matter of common sense prior to publicizing information (because that is the standard that we are accomodated to in the west), when that might in fact not be the case, and so the information publicized is deprecated accordingly without our knowledge. We have seen this type of problem in the recent past with TEPCO. Their measurements and analysis does not instill confidence with me at this time (ymmv).
For the Japanese font, just download Adobe FontPack1000_ja_JP.msi from the Adobe download website page. Adobe Reader X version 10.0.1 is apparently the latest.
Japan nuclear crisis: workers using newspaper and sawdust to block pipes
Last link from Drudge.
Do not see how that one leak could not cause a 2 x legal reading in seawater for Radioactive Iodine 30-40 km south of Fukushima (reading taken about 4 days ago).
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Do not see how that one leak could cause a 2 x legal reading in seawater for Radioactive Iodine 30-40 km south of Fukushima (reading taken about 4 days ago).
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