Posted on 12/04/2011 6:30:33 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Strontium-tainted water leak suspected
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says about 45 tons of strontium-tainted water may have leaked out of a water treatment device, with a portion of it spilling out of the facility.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says the water may contain high levels of radioactive strontium. Strontium causes internal radiation exposure.
The company is trying to determine whether the water reached the sea.
The utility said at about 11:30 am on Sunday a water leak was spotted in a device to remove salt from contaminated water from which radioactive material had already been removed.
It said the leak was stopped after the device was turned off, but at least 45 tons of water containing radioactive materials may have leaked out, with some portion possibly reaching a ditch outside the facility.
The level of radioactive cesium had been reduced to 45 becquerels per cubic centimeter after the treatment. But the water is believed to have contained 130,000 becquerels per cubic centimeter of radioactive strontium.
The ditch connects to the sea about 600 meters away. The power company is piling up sand bags in the ditch to prevent the water from flowing to the sea.
The water is used to cool down the reactors in the power plant and the utility says the leak does not pose any problems for the process.
My only conclusion after watching all this unfold is that the Japanese are serial liars and are masters of cover up.
8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini involved in 14-vehicle pile-up in Yamaguch
A Dr friend of mine in the Navy just got back from there, he said he had no clue how bad the situation really was
Geez, they are just so screwed one way or another. And I still feel it could have all been avoided had their backup power system been more capable of withstanding a tsunami. Like being located on higher ground, for instance...and that they’d had a backup for the backup.
All indications, as reports are slowly released of what really happened early on when the Great Quake struck, are that the three units were in early stages of the meltdown before the tsunami rolled in due to plumbing being damage so even the backup cooling was ineffective. There was no closed loop in the reactors because of leaks.
Most experts figured the worst case scenario X3 had occurred when the Japanese resorted to dumping seawater from helicopters on the reactors.
Fukushima operator: 'I bowed and begged them to stay'
"I came to realise a tsunami had hit the site as one of the workers rushed into the room, shouting 'Sea water is gushing in!''', the unnamed chief operator was quoted as saying.
"I felt totally at a loss after losing power sources,'' he said. "Other workers appeared anxious. They argued, and one asked: 'Is there any reason for us to be here when there is nothing we can do to control (the reactors)?'''
"I bowed and begged them to stay.''
They described attempts to release pressure from a reactor container by manually opening a ventilation valve.
"We put on the full protection gear but couldn't possibly let young workers do the task, as we had to go into an area where the radiation levels were high,'' one worker recalled.
"When I got to the place to open the valve, I heard eerie, deep popping noise from the torus (a donut-shaped structure at the bottom of the reactor),'' he said.
"When I put one of my feet on the torus to reach the valve, my black rubber boot melted and slipped (due to the heat).''
EIGHT FERRARIS AND A LAMBO!?! I'm going to go and have a good long cry now....
No problem for the process. Move along. Nothing to see. The glow in the dark sushi is nothing to worry yourselves about. It's all under control. The glowing salt shaker however...
Don’t act like a tool, alright?
Workers were already trying to open vents before the tsunami hit because the plumbing was leaking cooling water for the cores, starting the first stage to a meltdown i.e. temperatures rising and boiling off coolant leading to a need to vent the overpressure. The 3 units would have melted down anyway without the tsunami damage.
That report was a rush to whitewash the event. Worker’s first hand reports tell a totally different story.
Having worked for a very traditonal Japanese company for several years I agree with your conclusion.
That is simply not true.
Moreover, Daini four units were at the same state when the tsunami hit, and they achieved a cool shutdown few days later, since they did not suffer a power loss.
I don’t remember all the details about Daini if recall correctly, they had to vent radioactive steam too, I know they leaked some radioactive coolant when one of unit’s heat exchangers was damage.
The difference with Fuku-shima was that it was built on hardened mud for all intent and purposes, not traditional bedrock, this caused the ground there to roll and shake the units to pieces. After the Great Quake first hit many areas of the Fukushima units were unapproachable due to high levels of radioactivity so valving couldn’t be manually turned for venting or rerouting of coolant.
The real damage the tsunami caused is when the sea receded about 600 yards (this happens before a tsunami arrives), according to a worker on a hill watching the event, this caused the intake pipes for seawater cooling to run dry.
Believe what you want, but worker saying his boot was melting happened before the tsunami.
Look, read the report, if you dare.
I read the report when it first came out and read other independent reports. Follow the tragedy almost in real time for days if not months. You still have not seen all of what they are hiding and not reporting especially instrument readings in and around the plant.
Woods Hole Oceanographic collected ocean samples near the Japanese coast testing sea and plant life for nuclear fallout, months ago. Haven’t heard a word yet about the results. Probably to scary.
Fukushima is nowhere near being able to cap the 3 cores which are now 3 corium blobs so radiation continues reaching into the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere.
Try this site, the only guy that still follows Fukushima on just about a daily basis. It is nothing but sad.
Specifically from that site above:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/12/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-tepco-denies.html
From that latest TEPCO report ‘TEPCO also says there was no explosion in Reactor 2; it was just mistaking the sound of Reactor 4 explosion.’
Read the comments as the skeptics of this report point out Unit 2 was is the largest source of radiation fallout between the 3 units but TEPCO pretends it never happened.
Without all the facts like gauge and sensor readings being published TEPCO can paint any picture they want with the help of the Japanese government.
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