Posted on 09/19/2013 7:08:30 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Cracks found in vent pipe at Fukushima plant
The people in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say they've found cracks in a steel framework that supports an unused ventilation pipe. They relied on the pipe for a period of time to release dangerous vapors created by the 2011 accident.
Officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company say workers on Wednesday discovered the cracks and cuts at 8 places in the buttress about 66 meters above the ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at 3.nhk.or.jp ...
So far just a shrug as far as I can tell. It seems that damaged structures at the nuke plant still appear to be standing. How far their luck continues remains to be seen.
Gotta believe the good folks there live in a state of nervousness?
Have they found much impact on the fish or marine life where they are leaking or dumping contaminated water in to the ocean yet?
Also we hear that Japan is officially out of the nuclear energy business, has that had an impact on energy prices etc?
Thanks for being our eyes and ears on the ground in Japan.
This has become the serious problem because They won't let us know how much was dumped in the Ocean. Overall, they tend to withhold data and release it later drip-by-drip. TEPCO has a credibility problem.
Folks there were used to eating fresh local fish?
I’m not criticize cause lake okeechobee runoff dumping in to my river estuary has nearly killed it too but not in the same, this may take 100 years to fix , that, 10,000?
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