Fukushima Daiichi cleanup problems continue

[Yo_Mama]

My reading of all this is that in fact TEPCO's roadmap for control of the site is becoming increasingly unlikely, but I don't want to be alarmist and I know there are a lot of very technically savvy people on this site, so:
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1306490109P.pdf
The above is a link to JAIF's daily roundup of the news.

Note that the container they were using to hold the very highly radioactive water they were trying to pump out of the basements and trenches is itself leaking, and it's not a small leak. Most of us know from household experiences that leaks only grow worse over time. They anticipate that they will have difficulty plugging the leak because of the high radioactivity levels of the water that's leaking.

Plus, the reason they even found this in the first place was that they checked the water level in the container because they needed to pump a whole lot more out, and they thought it was just about full.

The plan to get in there and work on these reactors depends on clearing out most of the water from the basements.

So I don't know where they really are, but as far as I can figure it, they are getting further from control at this time. An IAEA team went over this week. Perhaps they had some helpful advice, like "Next time, check for leaks BEFORE you pump the very radioactive water in."

There was another fire at Fukushima Daini (different plant!!) on the 27th:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11052702-e.html

In addition, they are reporting extremely high radioactivity readings in the drywell at reactor 1. Before they have said the sensor is bad, but I just don't know. It seemed to correlate with lowering the water injection rate.

Here's another site where a lot of TEPCO releases are perhaps better organized for reading:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/index-e.html

Original roadmap:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11041707-e.html

[kristopher]

1. They spent weeks preparing that holding area and checking it for leaks.

Don't worry though, Baggins told us it had more than enough storage capacity to meet the needs of the emergency.

[madokie]

2. Its not enough that nuclear energy poses many risks to every living thing

So you'd think they'd be honest with us and actually have a plan for in case something does go wrong as has but no they are not honest with us nor do that have a viable plan to deal with much of anything out of the normal everyday operations. Shut 'm down and shut them down now is my advice before we poison the planet to where everything is affected.

rec'd