Published: August 1st, 2011 at 1:25 pm ET
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Highly radioactive water flows into another place, NHK, August 01, 2011:
[...] Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Monday that it discovered about 700 tons of contaminated water on Saturday in the basement of an on-site building.
The utility said the water contained 19,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium 134 per cubic centimeter, and 22,000 becquerels of cesium 137 — both very high levels. [...]
The utility is investigating how the leakage happened but says it has already started the work to stop the contaminated water from leaking out of the building.
Published: August 1st, 2011 at 1:25 pm ET
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Any details as to which building? If it’s between the reactors and the sea, you would expect it. If it’s behind them, it’s an indicator of ground water saturation limits. More details needed.
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Next to each other doesn’t tell you the salient point – uphill or downhill.
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Hose connection or not, not knowing where 700 tons of highly radioactive water is for this long seriously impinges on the “everything’s under control” umbrella TEPCO has out.
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Per cubic centimeter!! Is this a sad attempt to keep the numbers down? Why not figure it in cubic Meters too many zeros? Next it will be in cubic milimeters!
I suspect this toxic wetness will find its was to the Pacific Ocean. Either by sepage or Tepcos silent pumping efforts reported as water decontamination.
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No need to phrase that in the form of a question. It’s a sad and obvious attempt. Plus, they don’t have enough zeroes anymore……
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…1.9 million parts of cesium per cubic meter and 2.2 million parts of cesium per cubic meter sounds a little more frightening…
And just “suddenly finding” the 700 tons of hot radioactive water?
I think things at Daichii are going to get pretty ugly really soon.
I guess Pee Wee’s Big Top is going to have to go back to rehab indefinitely. They are trying to figure out how to breathe and stay alive at the plant.
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It’s even worse if my calculations are correct:
1 cubic meter = 100*100*100 cm = 1,000,000 cm^3
19,000 bq/cm^3 * 1,000,000 cm^3 = 19,000,000,000 bq/m^3
1 m^3 of water = 1 ton
700 tons * 19,000,000,000 bq/ton
Total = 13,300,000,000,000 bq
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13,3 Trillion becquerels
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I’m glad they found it.
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That is:
13.3 Trillion becquerels Cs-134
15.4 Trillion becquerels Cs-137
in that pool alone, and it’s leaking…
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Wow 15.4 Trillion. Thats more that America’s Debt.
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And at the rate of 1 becquerel per SECOND = 1 click on a geiger counter, and that goes for the half- lives, and then the halflives again, and so on and so forth, thats alotsa clickin for a real long time….
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Yeah, I noticed that switch to per CC, instead of m3 of kG.
I guess Dabama been helping them on “communications” methods
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Simple. “Until June, the building was connected by a hose with another building where highly radioactive water is now being stored.”
Continuously dumping water on melted fuel blobs to slow further meltdown. Areva water purification equipment doesn’t work. Lots of radio-active water everywhere just pump it into all available basements.
This story is their way of saying how desperate situation is. Just pumping nuclear water into any vestibule available. A Basement of a building was never designed to store liquids.
No one “finds” 100′s of tons of nuclear water.
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Yup. And that water ain’t goin anywhere fast. Wait until a large cyclone hits there. It’s now Aug. 1st, this is the storm season over there now. I get the feeling that so much radiactive shit is just lying there, fully exposed, and it’s gonna get sent thru a real shit-spreader of a storm, potentialy. Hope not one…..
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Merry Xmas, the kids just found out they are getting glow in the dark toysfor the holidays.
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Glowworms
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Or a new Chinese genetically modified glowing doggie,…..Yea!
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