Japan:TEPCO spraying water directly into No.2 reactor
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The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun injecting water directly onto the spot in the No. 2 reactor where the fuel is believed to be located after melting down in the pressure vessel.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been spraying water continuously into the reactors since the March accident to cool them down.
As of 11AM on Wednesday, the bottom of the No.2 reactor was 114.4 degrees Celsius, compared to 84.9 degrees at the No.1 reactor and 101.3 at the No. 3 reactor.
TEPCO thinks the temperature at the No.2 reactor remains higher because the injected water is not cooling the place where the melted-down fuel is located.
On Wednesday, the utility began using pipes located above where the fuel is believed to be, along with an existing pipe, to diversify the coolant passages as the exact spot where the fuel is, remains unknown.
TEPCO says the temperature at the No. 3 reactor has dropped since the same method was introduced early this month.
The firm hopes to achieve a cold shutdown with the temperatures of all the reactors being kept stable and below 100 degrees by January.
It will adjust the amount of water being sprayed and monitor the change of reactor temperatures to find out the most effective way to cool them down.
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We can hope
:-(
Perhaps TEPCO will develop a more forthcoming and science oriented culture. TEPCO exists as nothing more than a polite fiction at this point.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company faces some $20T in Honshu Island cleanup costs. They will also have to 'pony up' for diagnosis, treatment and damages for a radiological health crisis; which may comprise a few million people in the Northern Hemisphere. The relocation expenses alone will exceed the ab initio total market value of TEPCO. No amount of money could even begin to clean up the Northwest Pacific Ocean.
The former TEPCO management, stockholders and lenders can expect to receive NOTHING ... ever. So the profit motive is no longer a factor for TEPCO.
TEPCO partners in this massive ecological disaster and health crisis, or crime as it may be reasonably considered, include some of the larger corporations from Japan, Germany, France and the USA. These stakeholders are still dispatching their lying shills, on 'CYA' missions.