TEPCO Installing Giant Tents over Radiation-Leaking Reactors

[flamingdem]

http://gizmodo.com/5801547/tepco-installing-giant-tents-over-radiation+leaking-reactors

Avatar for Sam Biddle Sam Biddle —With radiation still seeping from Fukushima, TEPCO is taking an odd step: installing enormous polyester tents around the cores. Each steel-framed tent will be "will be 55 meters high, 47 meters long and 42 meters wide," Dow Jones reports.

We're not sure if this is silly, desperate or effective. While it will probably aid in the containment of particulate matter and radioactive steam, were there to be another reactor explosion, a polyester tent would probably wind up floating somewhere in the Pacific.

[Ian David]

1. The tents will keep people from videotaping whatever they're doing. n/t

[madokie]

7. Which more than likely is nothing

[CanonRay]

2. Naw, canvas seals in radiation!

That's why they make reactor vessels out of canvass. Everybody knows this!

:evilgrin:

[Steepler0t]

3. It will be the glowingest Circus on Earth! YAY!

I for one cannot wait....:sarcasm:

[flamingdem]

4. Wow, they put them up fast!

They should have gone for solids over stripes, imo.

[damntexdem]

5. Well, that will certainly stop the in-tents radiation.

;-)

[flamingdem]

6. And it should take the at-Tent-ion off

this near Extinction Level Event, oy.

[madokie]

8. Yup

[Mnemosyne]

9. ... n/t