Published: June 16th, 2012 at 3:47 am ET
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June 13, 2012 tweet by Fukushima Daiichi worker @Happy11311 translated by Fukushima Diary:
I think the construction of the new tanks is behind the schedule and it’s not for what Tepco explained. I think that’s because of the ground. They are taking time to build the base of the tanks.
@tokuyamamura タンク増設が遅れてるのは違う理由だとおもうでし。地盤の問題じゃないかなぁ…。基礎に時間かかってるし…。
— ハッピー (@Happy11311) June 13, 2012
Published: June 16th, 2012 at 3:47 am ET
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It's that mushy bedrock.
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hi flap
just add
its those lying tepcoguv tarts with the smoothing PR prats
more industry smoothing here on waste storage issues!!
Chris Busby: the Forsmark nuclear waste Repository plan
sounds a bit scratchy at the start but improves…. busby discovers a SLIGHT problem with the details while chilling out in france..
what does this guy read in his spare time?? lol!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oliHTaHhDYc&feature=plcp
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Long Term Nuclear Waste Storage Fatal Flaw By Dr. Busby; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/06/long-term-nuclear-waste-storage-fatal.html
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nicely done article agr
+1000
i love the alternate press….
and u 2 admin
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OH GREAT
Agent Orange’s deadly legacy spreads to Japan:
http://www.rt.com/news/agent-orange-buried-okinawa-932/
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This is a global problem. If you have anything nuclear near you, odds are that the following is what is coming soon, or has already happened.
Huge Number Of Radiation Contaminated Sites In Just ONE US State; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/example-of-radioactive-contamination.html
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AGreenRoad, you print some really good articles on your website – but I hate that feature of the black 'subscribe' tab that interferes with my scrolling down to read the complete article. It seems really manipulative, as it makes it very had to scroll down and read the entire article.
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If we could figure out how to remove it, we would. It comes with the package.. sorry you have to endure this blackness:(
We do not like it either…
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this disaster isn't on the radar of most Americans. Perhaps this will sink in when they SEE the rads rolling in
Jet streams, debris tracking and other rad monitoring links
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/board,24.0.html
Fukushima radioactive fallout forecasts and other rad updates
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
for those in the mood to share
US government officials
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
Consulates
http://www.usembassy.gov/
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ACR, Thanks for all your hard work.
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TYPO: AGR
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Agreen, thank you for the post as I live in PA and assumed the high CPM were due to living within a 100 miles of five nuclear power plants and this sheds a whole new light on just how bad things really are. Thanks again you have a lot of very informative research and your format makes all the material easy to read. Kudos
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How many water tanks are they planning on?
What total amount of radiation is in them?
What kinds?
Who is keeping track?
So far, no one seems to care that high level radioactive waste is ending up in WATER TANKS..
Are they even earthquake proof?
What about terrorists?
What about leaks?
How many tanks will end up being there, assuming they keep doing this for 50 to 100 years?
100,000? 1 Million? More?
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TEPCO has done more damage than all the terrorist groups combined could ever dream of doing.
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I wonder if the Bedrock is damaged from 3 cores melting through the 300 meter point and travelling in different directions.
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The largest problem I can think of is radioactivity. The water they are putting in for cooling – leaves and goes into the ground. Then it can be big problem for constructing.
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It was originally meant to have been built 30 meters above sea-level but they decided to change the plans and to build it 10 meters above sea-level so they dumped a lot of earth down near the beach until it formed an area 10 meter above sea-level then they built the thing on there.
So it's not built on proper bedrock or anything like that, it's just built on – well – soil.
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No your wrong. The area where the plant is built was excavated down to bedrock at 10m above sea level. This was done to relieve stress on the water service pumps.
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[Geology of Fukushima]
“I have talked with some of my colleagues (geology professors) today, and some of them knew for many years/decades that the bed rock of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuke Power Plant is soft sedimentary rock. They do not know why government (both national and local/prefectural) approved for the construction of the plant on such a bad spot, and can only think of*unethical acts of polititians and the industry.*Also,*my colleagues warn that the type of bed rock, which geologists identify,*and the strength/suitability of the*bed rock, which soil/geo-engineers determine, is different, even though I would*still support that*young sedimentary rocks below the Fukushima Daiichi Nuke Plant is NOT*suitable for constructing buildings that have to endure earthquakes. ”
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3356008#post3356008
Faults unconsidered in the seismic design of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear … Map of Outer sea from Shioyazaki” (Geological Survey Japan, 2001)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110531e4.pdf
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I guess Tepco learned that they get along perfectly by using the Pacific Ocean as their storage tank of unlimited capacity – or did we hear any serious complaints from anyone around this globe for doing so?
On top it makes the shareholders happy, as so much hard-earned money has already been used to build the unit 1 tent asked for by the PR department.
Lipstick on a pig, eh?
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That was what I was going to mention…new tanks? Since when? I thought they gave up after filling up about 1,100 storage tanks. AFAIK the ocean has been the final storage tank for waste water.
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Well…hell…let's just point at one of the cracks..
http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fukushima26.jpg?w=300&h=223
Download , folks
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Report: Under Fukushima Plant is Cracking and Venting Radioactive Steam Aug.18 2011
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/08/18/report-ground-fukushima-plant-cracking-venting-radioactive-steam-60591/
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For visual analysis.."steam" coming up from the ground..between 2 and 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tIyaNkJlzA&feature=youtu.be
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Look at the cracks in the ground near Sendai.
The restart of nuclear power plants in Japan is sheer madness.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cracks+in+ground+fukushima&view=detail&id=D42E85FDD02AC19673A143CC63B72745BCF0D07B&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR
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HOR, I just got a virus warning on that link so I didn't go.
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hi everyone
no need to go back to an old article for a story about steam. the sun is rising there now.check out the web cams tbs and tepco looks like there is plenty of steam to go around.
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keep checking the tbs cam.the plant shows up and disappears every once in awhile. I look often this mourning has been very unusual.
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Japan approaching Typhoon Goochol on course for Tokyo arr 18/19th now Cat. 4 winds gusting at 222km potential for cat 5
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SP: Tepco has been out of the storage tank business for months unless a dignitary comes visiting…and this new typhoon certainly puts them out of the radioactive water tank business forever…the ocean gets it all now.
"The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has said it is considering dumping water treated for radiation contamination into the ocean as early as March, prompting protests from fishing groups.
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the utility operating the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was hit by a powerful tsunami in March that caused the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years, said it was running out of space to store some of the water it had treated at the plant because of an inflow of groundwater.
"We would like to increase the number of tanks to accommodate the water but it will be difficult to do so indefinitely," a Tepco spokesman, Junichi Matsumoto, told reporters.
He said the plant was likely to reach its storage capacity of about 155,000 tonnes in around March."
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/08/fukushima-operator-treated-water-sea?cat=world&type=article
SP: Another good article: Fukushima, A River Runs Through It
"A river of groundwater, 450 tons per day, is running through Fukushima Daiichi Units 1-4 according to calculations made by Asahi Shinbun"
October 20, 2011
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/20/1028511/-eSci-Fukushima-A-River-Runs-Through-It
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