Friday, September 2, 2016

More on Fukushima Ice Wall Failures


The Asahi Shimbun is reporting more details on the ice wall failures during the most recent typhoon:
Kohei Tomita. Sep. 2 2016. Typhoons cause ‘ice wall’ to melt at Fukushima nuclear plant. The Asahi Shimbun, http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index-e.html
Rainfall from recent typhoons caused partial melting of the “ice wall” at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, allowing highly radioactive water to leak from around the damaged reactor buildings... [TEPCO] said melting occurred at two sections of the ice wall, which is designed to divert groundwater away from the reactor buildings. TEPCO officials believe that during the latest typhoon, contaminated water from around the reactor buildings flowed through openings of the ice wall created by the deluge and reached downstream toward the sea.
The plant does not look any different on the cams.

4 comments:

  1. The Japanese government and tepco think they are fighting a PR battle to preserve the Olympics and nuclear in Japan by not building a sarcophagus around daiichi. In fact the government and tepco are making things worse. The wasted money. The continueing contamination. What will happen if daiichi completely collapses because of ice wall failures, daiichi sinking, earthquakes, and typhoons?

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    1. I completely agree. That is why I still watch the Webcams, although I acknowledge that I have no way of knowing whether what I view is real-time.

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  2. The Fukushima nuclear disaster
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YzzI0j4iM

    Quite interesting. It is clear that some persons have connections from which they get information that is never made public or only rarely by accident. Mostly the average person is left out of the loop by design. As a result when some of the hidden facts do emerge they seem fantastic because we have all along been missing out on developments. This is why classified information is so guarded as should or when it leaks the public gets forbidden knowledge. Not much change in all that since the days of the Pharaohs or the Babylonians. Secret knowledge is power.

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    1. Sure, you have to take the secrecy act into account in Japan. Although the govt is supposed to "designate" what is secret or not, it is said that anything to do with nuclear power (plants) is a "secret" and therefor the people are just not supposed to know. At the same time, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Agency, Mr Tanaka, is on record as saying, "We have no secrets here so we are not going to designate any." Fine. Everything they do is a matter of public record.

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