NHK World: Robot pinpoints leaks on Fukushima reactor

[GliderGuider]

Robot pinpoints leaks on Fukushima reactor

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, on Wednesday succeeded in sending a remote-controlled robot close to the lower part of the No.1 reactor's containment vessel.

A camera on the robot captured images of water leaking from 2 holes in the containment vessel into the building housing the reactor.

TEPCO engineers say they're not sure how much water is leaking. But they say one of the leaks looks as if tap water is gushing out.

Radiation levels in the area were extremely high at 0.9 to 1.8 sieverts an hour.

Engineers suspect that damage to containment vessels at the No. 2 and 3 reactors is also causing similar leaks of highly radioactive water.

So it goes.

[lonestarnot]

1. That gawd awful spew. Reminds me of the black spew that couldn't be stopped only fucking worse, way

worse.