Published: June 7th, 2012 at 5:00 pm ET
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The Accumulated Water Found at Unit 2 Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility (Newly Established) at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Tokyo Electric Power Company
June 7, 2012
Accumulated Water Found at Unit 2 Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility (Newly Established)
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Newly established Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility Building
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See: Newly established Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility Building
See: Newly established Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility Building
Published: June 7th, 2012 at 5:00 pm ET
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LOL
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LOL
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Peals of laughter..
Another day's work for their PR firms.
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… or it was simply a misunderstanding.
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The scary thing is this – is this a spoof or a contaminated water containment plan from TEPCO. Wanna know something scarier? It would take TEPCO time to figure it out and answer that question.
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Seems more like trying to use a pop bottle as a toilet…
(graphic explanation omitted)
Oh Yes….But with a fan underneath the bottle
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TEPKILL created a ‘Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility’ under Reactor No. 2 on March 11 2011 with x2 corium melt throughs, an aerosolised MOX reactor core, and at least x1 SFP vaporization…
In fact TEPKILL created a ‘Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility’ of the planet, as rain penetrates the surface. It's now a question of how much and for how long…
Good work TEPKILL and the gang of murderous criminal psychopaths who have justified, developed and enabled this insanity of nuKILLear boiling water, and the rich harvest of weapons grade plutonium that 'civilian power generation' was the cover for……
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Heh.
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Heh.
Well, Now we know what is the source of steam coming out of the ground.
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At least they are doing SOMETHING!!!
That's always good…
That's essential.
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If making up new lies is something????
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24 hours a day we record two TV camera angles. Cranes move around, never seeming to actually LIFT anything of consequence for no logical reason, NEVER near Reactor 2. No watcher sees any kind of construction equipment necessary to build anything…which would have to be on the LAND side, the side the cams are watching.
This has got to be the biggest dogpile we've seen in months…outside of it takes them 3 days, not hours, to change out a three phase, 1hp, motor hooked to a coupler….
Do they think we're THAT stupid?!
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Good point Fred… I think we also know they haven't done much on the steel cofferdam plan. This nuclear crisis couldn't have happened to a worse nuclear industry company.
Tepco is fiscally and morally bankrupt. Nothing to do now but prepare for even more dreadful horrors from Fukashambles. Nothing will shock me, but maybe really bad news will wake up a Sleeping Giant.
The Chinese hate Japan and also may see this as a disaster to weaken America so help won't be coming from them. But although North America is first in line downwind… all of the Northern Hemisphere will get blasted.
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I live on the coast in Charleston, SC, USA. There isn't going to be any underground facility ON THE BEACH NEXT TO THE OCEAN. It would FLOAT on the seawater under the plant! Dig a hole in any BEACH and watch it fill up!….Duhh.
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It seems that they are running out of tanks and room to put them..
Solution; FILL THE BASEMENTS with sludge and 'spent' resin.
IN other words, take all of the MOST highly contaminated, highly radioactive stuff and stick it in the dark, leaky full of holes basements.
Gee, how were we supposed to know it would leak into the ocean, into the groundwater and into the air? No one TOLD US we couldn't do it… It was there, so we FILLED IT.
uh huh, another award for TEPCO…
The only question is; what kind?
Any suggestions?
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This might be a joke, or they might legitimately be trying to do something… I know that seems unlikely, but it's possible.
Of course whatever those blueprints are, is a joke, since we all know the corium burned down out of there a long time ago. But it might be a cover for addressing the real problem. Something to hope for, at least.
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so, when the next big quake happens all that leaks out.
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What is spent sludge anyways?
Is spent 'sludge' the sewage from the bathrooms, or something else?
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We have to do guesswork constantly and I admire the people that take the time here to fill in the black spaces between the dots.
This is a crime. I have read article after article of the results from the Fukushima tragedy and the saddest part in all of this is the children. I can see how the workers would be sacrificed to save millions of people, but the children?
Just prior to Chicago American Nuclear Society releasing information regarding Fukushima and after Ambassador Murata stated the instability and mishandled Fukushima #4, I am sure that this #2 Underground storage facility came from someones A~~ at Tepco.
I can't fathom how they wold be able to build an underground dumping station with the state of the soil and radiation levels.
It is a Nil point. I am not sure what it is? Can someone clarify how this is helping?
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The water and sludge was collecting in the basement…they didn't want to try and move it (big job and already short on space) so they called it a storage space so now it's ok to leave it there..it's found a new home in a storage space and but then they got someone to draw a picture and there it is…not much work involved.
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Nuclear Spent Fuel/Radioactive Waste Storage; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/radioactive-nuclear-spent-fuel-storage.html
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Nuclear Plants And Radioactive Water Contamination; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/nuclear-plants-and-radioactive-water.html
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Anyone remember the level of the land SANK after the tsuamn?!. Or subsidence or just plain FELL several feet? So the new "Radioactive Water Containment" is likely a the groundwater level…OR sea level (think ocean, sand, beach…limestone, coral NOT BEDROCK!).
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I remember a new video that we watched the other day that showed two or three new buildings on the west side of reactor #2. Someone commented on it and asked what those new buildings were. Anyone remember that video? I can't seem to find it now.
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hi Jebus, are these scaffolded structures what you were referring to? R/H side of frame…
http://cryptome.org/daiichi-12-0528-01-hr.jpg
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Ya omni, that rings a bell. I thought I had seen a vid…
Hard to keep up with the volume of data.
I wonder if those structures are part of this "Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility" ?
I guess I can answer my own question.
The whole freakin Honshu island is a "Radioactive Waste Storage Facility"
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“radiation 10 million times the usual level” [reactor #2]
Mar 26, 2011
"Tokyo Electric Power Co said radiation 10 million times the usual level was detected in water that had accumulated at the No. 2 reactor's turbine housing unit.
Radioactivity IN THE AIR in Unit 2 measured at 1,000 msv millisieverts per hour — four times higher than the occupational limit of 250 msv millisieverts set by the government, he said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh63OKRhEL8
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So they can send in one of the foreign workers..for 15 minutes each? Or a Fukushima worker (they are tougher) for longer? Bet they let workers in with "fixed" dosimeters as well. As long as a worker does not show signs of radiation sickness, they can work…
Do I sound critical?
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Honestly, if Daiichi is that hot in sieverts, what could anyone do there rearranging crane positions? The site is ruined for habitation until at least the next glaciation. Nobody will be hanging out there any time soon. Most of the fuel has melted. Tepco has folded in complete failure to protect the public.
Japan needs to bury the entire radioactive Daiichi site–all the reactors, fuel pools and blownup plutonium–way down deep right where they presently lie ruined in situ. They need to dump on a mountain of sand and aggregate, and concrete cap Mount Daiichi when they are done. It would be so much cheaper and safer for them in the long run to stop the releases from the site by deep burial or entombment than to continue torturing the public with radioactive aerosols.
If the Japanese government and their partners in the nuclear industry manage to melt another BWR upwind in west Honshu……
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NHK: Workers sent to check reactor suppression chambers
Tokyo Electric Power Company has sent workers into the basements of 2 reactor buildings at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for a look at the reactors' suppression chambers.
Workers entered the rooms housing the suppression chambers of the Numbers 2 and 3 reactors on Wednesday for the first time since the nuclear accident in March of last year.
The crew was tasked with pinpointing the source of radioactive water leaking from the chambers. But they were unsuccessful.
Tokyo Electric says contaminated water had accumulated to a level of 5.33 meters in the No.2 unit and to 5.43 meters in the No.3 unit.
The utility firm says the water was up to more than half the height of the donut-shaped suppression chambers, which each measure about 9 meters in diameter.
Photos released after the inspection show no signs of major damage to the facilities or equipment.
(???? Are we talking about Fuku here??)
Tokyo Electric plans to fill the reactors' containment vessels with water and extract the melted fuel as part of decommissioning efforts.
To do this, it is indispensable that the damage done to the reactors' containment vessels and suppression chambers be located and repaired. (good luck with that one)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120608_12.html
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"Tokyo Electric plans to fill the reactors' containment vessels with water and extract the melted fuel as part of decommissioning efforts."
Extract the melted fuel?
TEPCO will say anything. How is this possible?
Still looking for the leak?
If they were plumbers..I'd fire them.
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Heart, lol, exactly. If you can't detect a leak after 5.3 m of water have accumulated, you should indeed be fired.
On the other hand: how to detect a leak in the bottom of an RPV if that bottom's gone?
So. The donut thingie will be filled up with water at a certain point in time. After that, the water will flow where exactly?
Yes, I know…
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B and B thought you were joking until I clicked your link. They put out these press releases knowing that most people do not really understand what they are talking about.
Sending someone into the Torus area to try to find a leak with 5 inches of water on the floor is near impossible. It is a very hard area to move around in,very hard to see things in normal conditions. But with 5 meters of water it is a complete joke, you would be walking on the catwalk looking down 10-15 feet and under the "donut" through all that water.
But that fantasy pales with the idea that they will fill the containment with water to remove the melted fuel?? This is so stupid it is scary. What are they going to do send divers in to pick up fuel pellets? They have gone over the edge now. The idea that anyone thinks that this is possible,or is even allowed to say this in a press release finalizes the case that some other entity needs to take over for TEPCO-they have lost their mind.
Is there anyone here who can create a cartoon with a diver inside a flooded containment picking up fuel with his hands? That is all TEPCO has become- a sick joke.
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Hi chrisk9, here's again a cross section of the system. So once the torus is filled up, the water will rise in the "upward" pipes and simply flow over, as the RPV is basically non-existant in terms of holding anything….
I agree, it's beyond bizarre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reaktor.svg
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Hi.. B and B…."donut thingie"..
The donut thingie has fallen in the milk..the milk has spilled on the donut thingie..an angry house wife served a soggy donut…
LOL.
TEPCO talks rubbish.
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Reality check: We know that as many as 3 coriums have gone ex-containment. We know this because TEPCO plans to block GROUND water flowing under Buildings1,2,&3 with a cofferdam. TEPCO will intercept incoming GROUND water with uphill wells, and dump it directly into the Pacific Ocean, before it becomes contaminated by coming into contact with the 3 bus-sized 50 ton coriums under Fuku. At present, ground water flowing under Fuku reaches the Pacific with a heavy radiation load, which has made stopping this flow of water around Coriums1,2,&3 a priority. So calling corium "spent sludge" or "spent resin" is a continuation of the TEPCO fiction that the coriums are still to be found somewhere inside the dry well or wet well. We all know that the bulk of Corium1,2,&3 are located well below the reactors in the GROUND!
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The catwalk sits right under the number 17 in the drawing, and they are looking for leaks right under the number 18. Kind of impossible under 15 feet of water.
So if my diver idea is goofy, the only other idea is that they will be using underwater tools from the refueling floor (numbers 2 and 6 in the drawing) down through the pressure vessel all the way to the top of the pedestal (#20) at the bottom of containment. I have seen a few lead bricks removed from the bottom of the pressure vessel (another story)and it took almost three months. They might eventually be able to get some of the fuel out of the pressure vessel (5-10 years?). But they would never be able to get anything that has melted or melted through lower into the containment basement.
So their idea, if this is it is no more sensible than my diver idea. No of this will ever happen, I really hope they know this.
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From the TEPCO dictionary:
Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Area: the name used to refer to a area contaminated by large amounts of nuclear waste, an area of a nuclear facility which can no longer be accessed due to radiation levels that pose a lethal danger, a term used in all press releases in place of a more accurate but inconvenient term of uncontrolled nuclear waste area.
Strict requirements for the conversion of a hole in the ground filled with nuclear waste into a TEPCO approve Radioactive Waste Underground Storage area are:
1. A paper or plastic sign with the words "Radioactive Waste Underground Storage" affixed to the nearest wall with nonlethal radiation levels.
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