Posted on 08/11/2013 8:50:30 AM PDT by Errant
Tensions are rising in Japan over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a breach that has defied the plant operator's effort to gain control.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday called the matter “an urgent issue” and ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up, following an admission by Tokyo Electric Power Company that water is seeping past an underground barrier it attempted to create in the soil. The head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority task force told Reuters the situation was an "emergency."
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With the construction of Truman Reservoir above our lake, the water has improved 100 percent; no more blasts of silt and crud during heavy rains, although the Big Niangua River will carry some mud but this rarely reaches the confluence of the Osage where we are.
Wife and i visited NOLA a week after Mardi Gras this year and sampled some of your excellent oysters and other seafood. A reception at a downtown hotel featured a big ice table with about a quarter ton of raw oysters on the half shell, pure and sweet as could be. It had been a decade since I had any like these and they went down my gullet chased with some fine white vino.
I suggested to my wife that we visit NOLA for a week in the winter every year for as long as we could afford it.
Life is good !
I have a daughter who lives in central Arkansas and have had the opportunity of fishing some of those waters. You folks living in the Ozarks are indeed blessed! I may join you one day... ;)
I had any like these and they went down my gullet chased with some fine white vino.
Next time, be sure to ask for one of the local wines, especially one of the Muscadine wines! Cher.... It'll make you want to slap both you Moma an Papa! ;)
you say: “Correct. Anytime I see natgeo quoted as being the source, I immediately know without a doubt that it must be true. NOT! “
Plenty of other info out there - her’s a starter for you who don’thave time to do a bit of due diligent research -
This first video is from 2011! and people haven’t been following up on it - Famed physicist Dr. Michio Kaku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrxmy6R3m90
Pacific Ocean contamination chart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8TT1dv-PM
Are we killing ourselves? Why is the world doing NOTHING. Why is our government doing nothing? - except covering up the truth? Why is THIS not a scandel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8TT1dv-PM
look, if you can spare the time from watching “Idol” and “DAncing” - look at some of the other videos in the sidebars? Or you can expend the least amount of your precious time and simply cache the links in this post - for future perusal - maybe you might even want to keep en eye on this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrhG5gmVb8
last month - leaks have been continuos and now is speeding up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6YFOwiXnM
Radiation in San Diago - just the beginning?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Jqx2JVvjU
‘bama double tongue “I want to be very clear - “ speech - NO WORRY! He said he’d keep us updated too - doesn’t seem to be any updates...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=095dqQn_3H8
radiation had already started reaching both west and eat coast USA 2 1/2 years ago!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhA6uh5UyAQ
how high is it NOW?
Thank you for the tip.
We visited an old slave holder mansion—Oak Alley, I think it was. We also have a meal at Drago’s downtown restaurant.
15 years previous, when I was calling on the inland river fleets, I had dinner at Drago’s original place.
My grandpa made his own, knocked the winter chill and cold north wind right out of ya.
Especially when you were just 12 or 13, LOL!
LOL! I’ve never tasty any wine better than homemade Muscadine wine. It’ll warm you to your toes! ;)
Dog Fish
When we would go out and feed the cattle on a cold, gray, wet winter day, we would go by the tractor shed, where he kept a jug.
He would let me take a little swig and tell me not to tell grandma.
Kept his chewing tobacco back there too, damn sure didn't want grandma to know about that, LOL!
Life was great back then, a hell of a lot better than now.
On the Ocean floor is not an immediate problem. The cold water down there barely moves and takes decades to reach the surface. Only giant squids or whales make the trip up and down quickly in the biological area. Shallow water release means shallow water organisms we eat get contaminated and the nuclear particles can be ejected into the atmosphere by waves and bubbles. Not the same concerns at all.
Right. The old sarcophagus is cracked and leaking. They have to build an entire new one.
That's for sure! What the hell happened? I reckon that's what we get for being nice all these years. Now we can't even die of something without having to buy "health" insurance. Hey, don't you get three hots and a cot in prision???
All their plans to date have fatal flaws in them. Since they built the plant over an aquifer, 1,000 tons of water flows through the ground under the plant and enters the sea. About 400 tons per day has been released that was highly contaminated.
Their first plan was to build glass walls on the seaside of reactor 2. The wall is almost done and guess what. The ground water rose up to and over the height of the underground wall. And it has caused all the water around the plant to have higher contamination levels.
There second plan is to pump up the ground water on the inland side of the plant and dump it into the ocean before it gets contaminated. Unfortunately the ground water flow system works on pressure. If they pull up 600 tons, 600 tons quickly flows in to replace what they pulled up.
They built the darn thing over an aquifer where water from the mountains inland flow to the sea underground. To handle this flow around the plant before 311, they had 59 sub drain pits around the buildings that they used to affect the underground water pressure. All of those pits became contaminated and crippled on 311. Half of the 59 pits can not be accessed. The other half are highly contaminated. They are building new pits and plan for 13 eventually. However, the contaminated water problem is escalating now almost out of control. They may need to seek kamikaze workers to get the highly contaminated pits operational. Kamikazi means Gods Wind. It is how Japan has been defended over the centuries.
“You should see the video of the chick on a crotch-rocket making a trip to Chernobyl.”
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Hotdawg!!! Got any pics?
Thanks for the update. All I know is what I read in the papers. And indeed there was a solution presented to Fukushima fishermen in May to pump water out of the mountain side to the sea but it wasn’t approved because they couldn’t distinguish between the aquifer and radioactive water. According to reports on NHK last week TEPCO is now promoting a plan to build a ‘wall of ice’ I think 1400 meters underground to confine the polluted water but it is unlikely to come off since nothing has been tried before on that scale and engineers still don’t understand the flow of groundwater in sufficient detail.
It is a real difficult situation. You cannot consult the manuals because there are none. They established an international fund to come up with the funds for the new Chernobyl Sarcophagus. Would be nice if we could do that with Fukushima. Unfortunately the coriums have escaped containment and entered the aquifer. Will all end in the sea unless it can be removed. At least they can hurry and get the spent fuel pools emptied.
Of Stripers or Strippers? lol
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