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Japan:Strontium-tainted water leak suspected(leaking out of water treatment devices)
NHK ^ | 12/05/11

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; radiation; strontium; watertreatment
So, we have less cesium but lots of strontium.
1 posted on 12/04/2011 6:30:40 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

My only conclusion after watching all this unfold is that the Japanese are serial liars and are masters of cover up.


2 posted on 12/04/2011 6:33:16 PM PST by ExtremeUnction
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To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
In contrast, on the other side of Japan, some are having too much fun:

8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini involved in 14-vehicle pile-up in Yamaguch

3 posted on 12/04/2011 6:33:54 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: ExtremeUnction
In this situation I couldn't agree more,

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

4 posted on 12/04/2011 6:36:46 PM PST by cmsgop ( The left always accuses the right for the sins of the left. from FReeper Just Lori, RIP)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

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.


5 posted on 12/04/2011 7:53:59 PM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob
I would even settle for less. If they took drastic action immediately after the accident, by bringing in resources all over the world. Soviet Union did better in Chernobyl than Japanese are in Fukushima now.
6 posted on 12/04/2011 8:02:25 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

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.


7 posted on 12/04/2011 8:34:53 PM PST by Razzz42
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To: TigerLikesRooster
This article had some incredible testimony from the actual workers. Would be interesting to find out which reactor had the deep popping noises and excessive heat coming from the torus.

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).''

8 posted on 12/04/2011 10:27:48 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: TigerLikesRooster
> ...some are having too much fun...

EIGHT FERRARIS AND A LAMBO!?! I'm going to go and have a good long cry now....

9 posted on 12/04/2011 10:59:01 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
the utility says the leak does not pose any problems for the process

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...

10 posted on 12/05/2011 5:38:53 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Razzz42
That is simply not true. Cooling systems operated for many hours after the quake and the tsunami.

Final Fukushima Mission Report - IAEA
11 posted on 12/05/2011 8:44:01 AM PST by J Aguilar (Fiat Justitia et ruat coelum)
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To: J Aguilar

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.


12 posted on 12/05/2011 11:42:22 AM PST by Razzz42
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To: ExtremeUnction
My only conclusion after watching all this unfold is that the Japanese are serial liars and are masters of cover up.

Having worked for a very traditonal Japanese company for several years I agree with your conclusion.

13 posted on 12/05/2011 11:58:32 AM PST by Moleman
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To: Razzz42

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.


14 posted on 12/06/2011 12:09:48 AM PST by J Aguilar (Fiat Justitia et ruat coelum)
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To: J Aguilar

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.


15 posted on 12/06/2011 9:55:59 AM PST by Razzz42
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To: Razzz42

Look, read the report, if you dare.


16 posted on 12/06/2011 11:49:35 PM PST by J Aguilar (Fiat Justitia et ruat coelum)
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To: J Aguilar

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.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/


17 posted on 12/07/2011 12:19:27 AM PST by Razzz42
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To: J Aguilar

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.


18 posted on 12/07/2011 11:45:31 AM PST by Razzz42
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