Leak At Fukushima Appears To Be Lessening

[DeSwiss]

Source: NHK

Leak at Fukushima appears to be lessening

NHK
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 20:24 +0900 (JST)



The operator of the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant has injected a hardening agent beneath a leaking concrete pit in a bid to stem the flow of highly radioactive water into the sea.

The firm says the leakage seems to be decreasing, following the infusion of the hardening agent. The utility showed reporters a photo of the leak on Tuesday evening, saying it indicates such a decrease.

TEPCO said it will infuse another 1,500 liters of liquid glass. Tokyo Electric Power Company started infusing liquid glass into gravel below the pit near the Number 2 reactor at 3 PM on Tuesday.

TEPCO spotted a crack in the pit 3 days ago while trying to find the source of the leakage of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. Since then, the utility has tried in vein to seal the pit with concrete, or to plug piping leading into it with a polymer mixture.

Read more: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_h32.html

[eowyn_of_rohan]

1. But wait -- Plant radiation monitor says levels immeasurable

Which is it? Insane...

[DeSwiss]

2. Yeah, I know.....

...and I think it's both. They've gotten the flow rate to slow down, but the radiation levels are now climbing so high that no one can go inside of Reactors 1 thru 3 anymore.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

5. i think the nuclear rods are burning through the ground

and the radiation is seeping up through the sea floor. Wait and see.

[DeSwiss]

9. Me too.

In fact I think it's been doing this for quite a while. I have no faith whatsoever in governments (any of them) telling us the truth.

Not anymore.

[robcon]

12. On what do you base that opinion?

evidence?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

13. Yep.

and a sixth sense. :think:

[AndyTiedye]

21. More Likely the Plant Radiation Monitor Has Failed

Did all that radiation around the plant just go away? I don't think so.
More likely the monitor has failed.

[Poll_Blind]

3. It's like saying the firing squad has each decided to use one bullet instead of three.

I'm not snarking on you, I'm just worried and rightfully-pessimistic and I couldn't help but have that thought enter my head. I do thank you for the post and the information!

PB

[DeSwiss]

6. De nada.

:)

[Auntie Bush]

4. How can they find workers that are willing to do that kind of work?

Somehow working in contaminated air is a little less scary than working and getting splashed with radioactive water. :scary: Bless those poor workers for they KNOW what they are doing.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

7. shit - the rain falling across the US is radioactive

I guess it's safer to have radioactive rain sprinkle rather than splash on us. :sarcasm:

[DeSwiss]

8. Offering workers $5000 per day.....

...seems to be the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x813385">current approach being used.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

10. And they'll have a whole week to spend it!

before they croak. Go blow it all at Tokyo Disneyland :eyes:

[Robbien]

11. They gave reporters a picture and said see, it is less. Trust us.

And the reporters go off and dutifully print headlines saying leak appears to be less.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

14. "Trust us! Really!! "

:spray:

[DeSwiss]

15. Well if one is a reporter.....

...who also lives in Japan, then I can at least understand why they'd want to believe the good news.

Even though we've all been lied to from the start.

[Robbien]

16. TEPCO just offered to give each town that evacuated approx. $240,000

One town mayor refused the money saying he was too busy dealing with the evacuees problems saying “Why would we use our resources to hand out less than 1,000 yen ($12) to every resident?”

The Japanese people are tired of being screwed and then being lied to. Having phony headlines saying the leak is lessening doesn't help if in fact the leak is not lessening or the lessening of the leak means little more than diddly squat in getting the total reactor problem solved.

I just read that in addition to iodine radioactivity in the seawater "the amount of cesium-134 was 2 million times the maximum amount permitted and cesium-137 was 1.3 million times the amount allowable". That stuff takes decades to go away. Looks like Japanese Sushi is a thing of the past.

Holding up a picture and proclaiming this that is great news is another form of lying to the Japanese people. They don't want that.

[marions ghost]

17. I have a feeling

once the nukes are "contained" (hope, pray) that the suffering Japanese people will be expressing some of that pent-up anger.

[Robbien]

18. Scientists are estimating that to contain the nukes it will take three or four months

or two or three decades. Depending on to whom one is talking.

Hope the Japanese don't become constipated holding in their anger.

[marions ghost]

19. Yeah

the Japanese are very stoic and will put up with a lot (Americans are the same way, perhaps for different reasons). But the anger will bubble out eventually.

Talk about betrayal of public trust...an understatement.

[DeSwiss]

20. The world seems headed.....

...for a major confrontation on all fronts.

It's well past time.

[Auntie Bush]

22. "That stuff takes decades to go away." I thinks it takes many centuries to go away.

Maybe even thousands of years. We/mankind are screwing the oceans as well as the land. What have we done? God only knows! But if there is no God...then no one knows!