Posted on 09/17/2013 7:34:03 PM PDT by SteveH
The operator of the leaking Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it dumped more than 1,000 tons of polluted water into the sea after a typhoon raked the facility.
Typhoon Man-yi smashed into Japan on Monday, bringing with it heavy rain that caused flooding in some parts of the country, including the ancient city of Kyoto.
The rain also lashed near the broken plant run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), swamping enclosure walls around clusters of water tanks containing toxic water that was used to cool broken reactors.
Some of the tanks were earlier found to be leaking contaminated water.
"Workers measured the radioactive levels of the water collected in the enclosure walls, pumping it back into tanks when the levels were high," said a TEPCO official.
"Once finding it was mostly rain water they released it from the enclosure, because there is a limit on how much water we can store."
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Who knew Homer Simpson is Japanese?
Well that’s one way to lower the radiation level, not the best way, but as Obama would say the important thing to take away from this is that the local radiation levels were lowered. Damn if you channel Obama you can always find a plus side, or a minus, or a plus.
Kyoto, Kyoto? Why does that ring a bell. Is that Japanese for algore?
They can build nuclear reactors, but they can’t put lids on barrels? Doesn’t sound right to me.
Why don’t they at least use a centrifuge and filtration first? It’s not the water, it’s the radioactive heavy metals in it.
Anyone else see the weird face with alien black sunglasses in the center of the upper two images ? Images are from Tepco. Funny guys.
Actually, no, it is the water. Tritium is a radioactive hydrogen isotope in radioactive "heavy water" -- and levels of it are sky high at Fukushima.
I guess they need a G.E.C.K. in Japan then.
1,000 tons ? That’s spitting in the ocean. I’ll bet a couple Olympic sized pools would handle that.
Ah. I didn’t think the reactor produced tritium. At least it’s an alpha emitter with a short half life.
I kid, kid...releasing it is all kinds of bad.
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