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(Reuters) - The company that runs a Japanese nuclear power plant destroyed by a tsunami two years ago said on Tuesday it was losing faith in temporary storage pits for radioactive water - but it doesn't have anywhere else to put it.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it had found a new leak at one of the pits at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Three out of seven storage pits are now leaking, compounding clean-up difficulties after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.
"We cannot deny the fact that our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost," Tepco general manager Masayuki Ono told a hastily arranged news conference.
"We can't move all the contaminated water to above ground (tanks) if we opt not to use the underground reservoirs," Ono said. "There isn't enough capacity and we need to use what is available."
[TEPCO] said on Tuesday it was losing faith in temporary storage pits for radioactive water – but it doesn’t have anywhere else to put it.
[TEPCO] said it had found a new leak at one of the pits at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Three out of seven storage pits are now leaking [...]
“We cannot deny the fact that our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost,” TEPCO General Manager Masayuki Ono told a hastily arranged news conference. [...]
Ono said on Monday TEPCO did not have enough tank space should it need to move the water out of the storage pits [...]
Tepco states the water was returned from No.1 to No.2 by siphon effect but the water level of No. 2 kept on decreasing linearly. *1 They observed the water level decreased from 57% to 55% in reservoir No.1. The capacity of No. 1 is 13,000 m3. Roughly estimating, if 2% of the 13,000 m3 leaked, it’s 260 m3.
The latest problem at the stricken plant suggests that the defect could cause leaks at the five other underground water storage tanks because they all have the same structure.
TEPCO, operator of the plant, said April 7 that radioactive water leaked from the No. 3 storage tank. It earlier confirmed that at least 120 tons of contaminated water leaked from the adjacent No. 2 storage tank.
The utility has yet to confirm how the leaks occurred, but it said it suspects a breach where water-shielding sheets had been connected or damage to the sheets.
Originally posted by all2human
reply to post by MariaLida
Translation: lets face it,unless we can pull a rabbit from a hat,that waters going into the ocean..edit on 9-4-2013 by all2human because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by all2human
reply to post by MariaLida
Translation: lets face it,unless we can pull a rabbit from a hat,that waters going into the ocean..edit on 9-4-2013 by all2human because: (no reason given)
Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day. How much radiation is this? A quick calculation shows that it is about ten thousand times less than the amounts released by Chernobyl during the actual fire at the Russian nuclear plant. But the Chernobyl fire only last 10 days … and the Fukushima release has been ongoing for more than 2 years so far. Indeed, Fukushima has already spewed much more radioactive cesium and iodine than Chernobyl. The amount of radioactive cesium released by Fukushima was some 20-30 times higher than initially admitted. Fukushima also pumped out huge amounts of radioactive iodine 129 – which has a half-life of 15.7 million years. Fukushima has also dumped up to 900 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium-90 – which is a powerful internal emitter which mimics calcium and collects in our bones – into the ocean.
Originally posted by MariaLida
Originally posted by all2human
reply to post by MariaLida
Translation: lets face it,unless we can pull a rabbit from a hat,that waters going into the ocean..edit on 9-4-2013 by all2human because: (no reason given)
It's just getting worse and worse ..
Tepco is release all that info so situation is probably very dangerous and alarming ..
It's extremely big amount of very high radiation-contaminated water, with every day amount is bigger and bigger ..
Anyway what they will do with all that high radiation-contaminated water, lo0l ..edit on 9-4-2013 by MariaLida because: (no reason given)
(Reuters) - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Monday it does not have enough tank space should it need to move contaminated water from storage pits that started leaking over the weekend at its wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Two years after the worst nuclear disaster in a quarter of a century, Tepco is struggling with breakdowns and glitches in its jerry-rigged cooling system to keep reactors and spent fuel pools in a safe state known as cold shutdown.
About 120,000 liters (32,000 gallons) of water contaminated with radiation leaked from two giant pits over the weekend. The cooling system has broken down twice over the past three weeks.
Originally posted by Panic2k11
reply to post by MariaLida
The default solution to pollution has always been dilution.