Friday, 29 September 2017

TEPCO claim Contaminated water may have leaked from the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since April

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  • Earlier this summer 50,000 trillion Becquerel’s of radiation leaked, however, Tepco claims tritium poses little risk to human health and is quickly diluted by the ocean.
  • 300 tons of radioactive water leaking daily into the Pacific and no known technology to fix 
Contaminated water may have leaked from the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since April, the owner said Thursday.
Earlier in the summer 50,000 trillion Becquerel’s of radiation leaked, however, Tepco says tritium poses little risk to human health and is quickly diluted by the ocean.
300 tons of radioactive water leaking daily into the Pacific and no known technology to fix it so you can imagine the anger by local residents, environmental groups and fishermen as Tokyo Electric Power Co., TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima plant announced they are set to release more radioactive material into the Pacific Ocean.
To prevent leakage of tainted water, TEPCO has installed water-level indicators and kept groundwater levels in wells higher than the contaminated water levels inside the buildings.
The water level in the wells is usually kept a meter higher than the level of tainted water inside the buildings, according to TEPCO.
But the water level in some wells has been found to be about 70 centimetres lower than indicated by the equipment, causing fears of possible leakage.
The problem was discovered in wells that started operations between mid-April and early August. The utility is now checking data on groundwater levels near the plant's Nos. 1 to 4 reactors.


Emphasized by Gary Walton
After a manually operated camera probed the deepest point yet within the reactor, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) estimate that radiation levels inside the plant's No. 2 reactor have hit 530 sieverts per hour.(There are areas where the robots still can't reach where the radiation levels will in all probability be much higher)
Unfortunately, the radiation level of the reactor units was high enough to actually begin to damage one of the robots' camera system and could have completely blinded the view for the operator and left the bot stranded in the radioactive hellscape. (In layman's terms what the are saying here is no technology has yet been invented to fix the problem, humans or robots cannot get anywhere near the rector long enough to fix the problem so Tepco's claim it will take another 40 years to fix the problem is probably a very conservative guess) 

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