Published: March 25th, 2011 at 3:43 pm ET
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IAEA: No end in sight for radioactive releases at Fukushima, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, March 25, 2011, 2:33 pm EDT:
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday it could offer no timeline on when Japanese engineers could stop radioactive leakage from the stricken Fukushima plant, even though the likely source of the emissions has been identified.
‘We don’t know how long there will be releases,’ senior IAEA technical advisor Graham Andrew told reporters at the agency’s seat in Vienna. …
The IAEA’s chief safety official, Denis Flory, said… [f]irst the reactor would have to be cooled and water would have to be injected to create an environment in which people could operate in the building and assess the damage.
‘So we are not in this phase at all,’ he said.
Read the report here.
Japan nuclear crisis ‘could last months’, AFP, March 26, 2011:
Three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant remain “precarious”, a state that could last for “weeks or even months”, France’s Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) says.
It said on Friday it remains “greatly concerned” by the situation in the No 1, 2 and 3 reactor units, which have been hit by a series of blasts and fires since the plant was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. …
Read the report here.
Published: March 25th, 2011 at 3:43 pm ET
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Your readers might also be interested in how to treat their radioactively contaminated drinking water:
http://crisismaven.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/dangers-properties-possible-uses-and-methods-of-purification-of-radioactively-contaminated-drinking-water-e-g-in-japan/
A Japanese translation seems underway, see comment by Takuya there. Maybe someone wants to help with other languages?
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Months??!!??..Oh yea Nuclear Power is the way to go..NOT!!!!!
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Could it be possible this reactors get fixed in Lybia.
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Maybe they went to fetch the water !
HE DEEP GROUND WATER IN LIBYA
http://iahs.info/hsj/073/073004.pdf
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Fossil Water in Libya, Golden Water of Libya
Deep under the Sahara sands, ancient aquifers have been storing 40,000-year-old reserves of pure drinking water.
In the 1950s, oil exploration in Libya turned up another valuable resource: water. Huge aquifers, underground deposits of sand and rock that also contain water, lurked underneath the scorching sands. The Libyan government weighed the costs of bringing water up from the aquifers against transporting water from Europe and desalination of salt water, and chose the aquifers as the most cost-effective option.
The groundwater was put in place during ancient eras of dramatically different climates and became encapsulated through geological changes. Like the fossil fuels that were also created under long-vanished conditions, this “fossil water” is a non-renewable resource with great potential.
Financed by oil revenue, the project began in 1984.
To bring this ancient, remote water to Libya’s people the government launched The Great Man-Made River Project—a water management scheme of enormous scope. The project is a network of pipes and reservoirs that move water from its subterranean desert origins and delivers it to the country’s heavily-populated coastal region at a total estimated cost in excess of $20 billion (U.S.).
http://www.drinking-water.org/html/en/Sources/Fossil-Water-in-Libya.html
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Could they use *liquid nitrogen* to better perpetually cool those reactors and spent fuel rods??? Just a thought…otherwise, I guess it is time to entomb them ASAP.
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I dont think so.
Only boron will stop or slow the reaction.
Salt water makes for a worse situation.
The salt adheres to the fuel rods and then restricts water flow between them.
Google: LOCA (loss of coolant accident) and look for the pdf file from
NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Titled:
Nuclear Fuel Behaviour in
Loss-of-coolant Accident
(LOCA) Conditions
State-of-the-art Report
This is the bible on meltdowns.
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I would suspect going back to fresh water as they have done, will help to wash and melt the salt rocks off of the rods to promote better cooling.
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