Straight into the Sea!
And some new leak is talked about today the 12th:
TEPCO has struggled to stop spills into the Pacific Ocean but reported another one on Thursday, saying water had leaked into the sea from a concrete pit near reactor three, one of the plant's six units.
Samples of seawater taken near the plant contained caesium-134 at a concentration 18,000 times the permitted level, the utility said, adding that the spill had been stopped by filling the pit with concrete.
TEPCO spokesman Yoshinori Mori said: "Today we have continued to investigate the route of the leakage into sea and why it happened."
Top government spokesman Yukio Edano called the leak "deplorable" and apologised to the fishing industry and to neighbouring countries.
See, for instance: http://www.peopleforum.cn/redirect.php?tid=93759&goto=newpost
OMG. VOMIT, VOMIT, VOMIT.
PLUS, TEPCO Suspects Full Core Meltdown At Unit 1
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/05/90559.html
Are they totally encrusted in salt by now, and that is why the water no longer helps?
WHAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY HAS NO OFF SWITCH????? THIS IS MADNESS TO THE CORE!
Mark my words. They will
Mark my words. They will never, repeat never get this f---ing disaster cleaned up (e.g., under control). The best they'll be able to do is entomb the whole mess in massive amounts of concrete. They will probably design some once-through cooling scheme using ocean water in (at the plant) but the outflow will need to be repeatedly loaded on dedicated tankers and dumped 500 miles off the coast (because it will be a stinking radioactive soup.
This can be the only solution. They will kill thousands of workers trying to "clean-up" this radioactive cesspool and still not make any headway. The health and technological barriers are insurmountable.
Sorry folks, everyone thinks technology can "fix" everything but it can't. This is the best they will be able to do and the sooner they figure it out the better.
What kind of jacked up world
What kind of jacked up world do we live in when 3 or 4 or 6 nuclear reactors melting down doesn't event warrant a mention on the nightly news?
Why not on the news
Just had an irritating discussion tonight with someone who assured me that there could never be a media hush-up. He concludes that it has not been on the news because there must be nothing in particular to report!!!!!
Of course, not.
Who could possibly justify using precious air time to report on a nuclear disaster when there is really important news to report, such as the next American Idol and Bristol Palin's future reality show?
Bread and circuses????
To the author of the preceding comment, many, many of us have been asking the same question.
totally agree. Political
totally agree. Political views set aside, if nuclear power plants are that dangerous and cannot be turned off in the worst case, they should not have been built in the first place!