Published: September 10th, 2012 at 10:25 am ET
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Follow-up to: Tepco creates 'Radioactive Waste Underground Storage Facility' at Reactor No. 2 (PHOTOS)
Title: Current Condition of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Source: Tepco Press Release
Date: September 10, 2012
The tank was covered with soil after it was installed.
1 Underground water storage tank installation – Photo taken by a TEPCO employee on June 18, 2012
2 Underground water storage tank installation – Photo taken by a TEPCO employee on August 21, 2012
Published: September 10th, 2012 at 10:25 am ET
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I bet those storage tanks don't have a bottom…
Great catch Admin.
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so now it can leak without anyone seeing it.
Well, I guess, someone could use all that Strontium to really map the hydrology of northern Japan.
It'll be nice when someone builds a simulator of all of japan.
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"so now it can leak without anyone seeing it."
Yes, right into the ocean.
Just like the million+ gallons of lethal radwaste making its' way into the Columbia River from Hanford.
I'm telling you people, after Fukushima, no one cares about containing nuclear waste anymore. Any money spent will be for PR purposes only.
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To their credit, they did put down a liner under the tanks. They have to have some place to hold it all.
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What 'liner' could possible withstand lethal nuclear liquid radwaste?
I'd like to see that brochure.
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To their even greater credit, they did a smashing job of shaping the edges of the berm/dirt cover. Not that I'm surprised really–the amateurish photoshop job on #4, that was the surprising thing. I do hope that as the coverups continue they'll continue to do such fine, if blatant, work of it.
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The planned nuke waste dump in Tochigi forest will have the following specifications, according to NHK (repost, but I think on-topic here) (emphasis is mine):
"The proposed waste disposal facility will have a ROOF to prevent radioactive materials from leaking with rainwater.
The storage facility will be about 10 meters deep from the surface and built with a concrete floor and walls. The concrete will be processed to make it resistant to corrosion.
Workers will transfer the radioactive waste into OIL DRUMS. Cranes will then be used to place the drums into the facility.
A monitoring room will be set up nearby for safety management.
Wells will also be dug to check whether radioactive materials are SEEPING INTO GROUNDWATER.
Once the space is full, workers will FILL IT WITH CLAY-LIKE SOIL AND COVER IT WITH CONCRETE. Two more layers of soil will then be added to cover the surface.
Even THE MONITORING ROOM WILL eventually BE FILLED WITH SOIL to make sure that no radioactive materials will leave the facility.
The Environment Ministry says these measures will keep radiation levels around the disposal facility below 10 microsieverts per year.
That is one-hundredth the annual permissible level for the general public."
Fill it all up and cover with concrete! Filling up the monitoring room?
I-N-S-A-N-E.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120903_23.html
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Me 2 B&B!!-I wish there was some good news once in a while though!! I'd believe it if I heard it here,everything else from MSM is sugar-coated bullshit!!…
gotta fly now-the wifey is done with her(ugh)"radiation therapy"(?)
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Best wishes Johnny!!
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To me this is good news. They have incredible amounts of contaminated water. What can they do with this water? The more they collect and maybe sometime treat and process the better it is. The other choice is to put the water in old and maybe damaged tanks, or release even more into the ocean. The plant will always be a radioactive waste site. I would prefer a waste site with more tanks and waste storage than one with less.
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I'm kinda' tired of having to be content with the lesser of two evils. What a mess we are leaving future generations.
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Is this the highly radioactive "sludge" from the reverse osmosis systems? GADs. Good to try and store carefully, but its, as one person here said, might be LAVA HOT! Will concrete or a liner/concrete be enough? There are no really good options..better on land to let land/soil filter before it ends up in the oceans….if it leaks out..
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When it leaks out…
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no… The sludge is in the SARRY filter canisters. They are stronger, but won't last forever.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_110714_06-e.pdf
Btw… Check out incinerators on page 3. Could this be our recent mystery smoke?
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they should have named it SORRY..
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Small Japanese child: "Look mom! The emperor has no clothes!"
Okaa-san: "Hush little one! We all know he is feeble, but the nail that sticks out gets hammered down!"
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SARRY system looks like a over-complicated mess (to clean water?) ..and for how long, decades?
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I am still concerned about the tons of radioactive sludge they were removing from Tokyo sewers. Surely there is more, and of much higher concentration.
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How is this a follow-up to the already built (and flooded) Unit 2 underground radioactive waste facility? They're both underground, but…
This looks like the planned 4000 cubic meter process water tank that the new 'multi-radionuclide removal' facility (ALPS or whatever) will be using. The slides only use the label 'underground water storage tank'.
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