[dennisw]

First day back: Children on their first day of school at Shimizu elementary school in Fukushima, as over 70 schools restarted classes after the earthquake and tsunami

 

 

 

Help at hand: Japanese soldiers distribute relief goods to evacuees in the tsunami-devastated coastal town of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture

Ceremony: Children sit in the school hall on their first day back

Mission impossible: A U.S. military barge carrying pure water (bottom) leaves the quay near Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima plant today

Plugging the leak The concrete pit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 reactor gushes with radioactive contaminated water above, but has now stopped, below

[SIRTRIS]

What is this liquid glass, sodium or potassium silicate?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What? Didn’t they have any duct tape?

[FatherofFive]

'This paints very different picture, and suggests that things are a lot worse. They could still have more damage in a big way if some of these things don’t work out for them.

Not very reassuring.

And can someone tell me why they tried to use newspapers to plug the leak????

[Don Corleone]

This fortifys my idea about disposing of nuclear waste by enclosing it in glass and dropping it into the deeps of the oceans.

[dynoman]

I think this “liquid glass” is sodium silicate. It was used to kill the engines in the clunker car program by pouring it in the crankcase and can be used as stop leak with water in an automotive cooling system.