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| Japan struggles to stop radiation leak into sea |
| 2011-04-04 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Japanese engineers grappling yesterday to control the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl tried to seal a crack leaking radiation into the Pacific sea from a crippled reactor. The drama at the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi complex has dragged into a fourth week, unsettling the global nuclear industry and compounding Japan's suffering after an earthquake and tsunami that left about 27,500 people dead or missing. Radiation has leaked into the sea, food, drinking water and air. It is hindering efforts to cool overheating fuel rods work at the plant and regain control of the damaged reactors, reports Rooters. Engineers tried to seal the crack with concrete on Saturday, but that didn't work. So on yesterday they injected a mix of sawdust, shredded newspaper and a polymer that can expand to 50 times its normal size when combined with water. The polymer mix had not yet stopped the leak last night but engineers have not given up hope and should know by today morning whether it will work, reports AP. Experts say that beyond the disaster zone, there is minimal risk to human health further afield in Japan or abroad. At the weekend, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) found a crack in a concrete pit at the No 2 reactor, generating readings of 1,000 millisieverts of radiation per hour in the air inside. The crack may be one source of leaks that have sent radiation levels in the sea soaring to 4,000 times the legal limit. To cool damaged reactor No. 2, engineers were looking at alternatives to pumping in water yesterday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 As per CNN + FOX NEWS AM > Yeeeep, looks like Japan stopped the leak by releasing = "dumping" up to 10,000 gallons of the stuff into the ocean blue. ADDITIONAL RELEASES MAY OCCUR AS PERTINENT, espec to help prevent any internal NucSys pressure buildups that can result in new internal explosions. IMO the longer the containment + recovery, + capping efforts take, the greater the risk of NEW, POSSIBLE EXTENSIVE OR Un-CONTAINABLE DAMAGE being incurred due to GWCC-INDUCED EARTHQUAKES = MAJOR NATURAL DISASTER(S). "2012" = "Perfect Storm"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-04 19:59 |
| #5 There were three Hydrogen explosions. Two blew out the secondary containment buildings, and the third is speculated to have gone off in a steam condensing chamber positioned below the reactor core. I am thinking that the leaks are coming from cracks created by that third explosion. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2011-04-04 17:04 |
| #4 News reports don't mention how the existence, size and uniqueness of the crack was determined. Certainly no one has gone in there & visualized it directly. Maybe the engineers have plugged one crack & just aren't aware of all the others. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-04-04 15:55 |
| #3 So on yesterday they injected a mix of sawdust, shredded newspaper and a polymer that can expand to 50 times its normal size when combined with water. Finally, a use for all that waste. Maybe we can provide the stuff before it actually moves beyond the [printing] plant. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-04-04 08:48 |
| #2 WAFF > SCIENTIST: JAPAN NUCLEAR "ACCIDENTS" ARE TECTONIC WARFARE [Independent scientist Leuren Moret]. GEOLOGIC/GEOPHYSICAL WARFARE = "EARTH WEAPONS", that is!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-04 01:24 |
| #1 Iff the GWCC Perts are correct about upcoming SOLAR STORMS, the greatest external danger to the Fukushima recovery effort will likely be NATURAL, i.e. ONE OR MORE HIGH-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE(S), as Tokyo has repor stated this AM that it may take MANY MONTHS to effec plug the leak. * ION TOPIX > JAPAN NUKES? NOT NOW. The 03/11/2011 Quake-tsunami + resultant Fukushima Nucplant Crises have delivered a near-crippling setback to JAPAN'S NUCLEAR HAWKS whom favor dev of indigenous NucWeaps. + whom had hoped to use Japan's established Civilian NucEnerProgs as the foundation for such. But for how long can Japan put off developing any sort of indigenous Nucweaps??? ARTIC > JAPANESE MISSLES ARMED WID NUCLEAR WARHEADS CAN SUCCEED AT CANCELLING OUT THE MILITARY, NUC SUPERIORITY OF CHINA + NORTH KOREAN NUC THREAT, PERHAPS EVEN THAT OF JAPAN'S OWN ALLY THE USA??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-04 00:57 |