Insight - In Fukushima End-Game, Radiated Water Has Nowhere To Go - Reuters

[WillyT]

Insight - In Fukushima end-game, radiated water has nowhere to go
By Mari Saito and Antoni Slodkowski - Reuters
TOKYO | Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:47pm BST

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(Reuters) - In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear plant was destroyed by a triple meltdown in March 2011, the plant's owner turned to three of Japan's largest construction companies for a quick fix to store radiated water that was pooling in the disaster zone.

The result was a rush order for steel tanks supplied by Taisei Corp, Shimizu Corp and Hazama Ando that were relatively cheap and could be put together quickly, according to the utility and three people involved in the project.

The tanks, which stand as tall as a three-storey building, were shipped in pieces and bolted together as makeshift repository for the cascade of water being pumped through the reactors of Fukushima every day to keep fuel in the melted cores from overheating.

The bolted tanks were sealed with resin and designed to last until about 2016 - long enough to buy time for Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco, to work out a more permanent solution. But at least one of the tanks has already failed, leaking 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water that may have seeped into a drainage ditch and into the Pacific Ocean.

The discovery of the leak - which Tepco said on Friday was the fifth from the same type of tank - prompted Japan's first declaration of a nuclear incident since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami triggered reactor meltdowns and hydrogen explosions that spewed radiation around Fukushima in 2011.

It has also focused attention on the uncomfortable end-game for the radiated water collecting at Fukushima...

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More: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/23/uk-japan-fukushima-endgame-insight-idUKBRE97M0FG20130823

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I see the problem:

that were relatively cheap and could be put together quickly

When will we/they learn that doing things on the cheap is NOT the way to proceed?

[WillyT]

2. EXACTLY !!!

[malaise]

3. Our lives are even cheaper

They don't care

[WillyT]

4. Bingo !!!

And there is THAT !!!

[Octafish]

5. The Fukushima Crisis Demonstrates how Lowly the Global Elites Hold the Common People

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1958114

My wife hates it when I say, "I told you so." Believe me, when it comes to Fukushima, I wish there had never been a reason to be right.

[malaise]

6. Those of use who dislike Koolaid

usually get it right - it's scary how gullible humanity remains even when our lives are under constant threat from the 1%.