Japan's TEPCO to release radioactive water into sea
TOKYO, April 4 |
TOKYO, April 4 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said on Monday it would release more than 10,000 tonnes of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea to free up more storage space for water that had much higher levels of radioactivity.
The water to be released was about 100 times more radioactive than legal limits.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said there was no other choice but to release the water. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota)
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LynCe wrote:
… And when that storage space fills up, what then? TEPCO says it will take months to find and successfully staunch the leaks of radioactive material at the damaged Fukushima plant — which is now a crime against the planet.
The quake and tsunami were horrific but this unimpressive, serial fumbling and failure to fix the leaks and stop the radioactive emissions at Fukushima is a nightmare unto itself. The surprising, low-tech Chernobyl cement fix didn’t work so now they are trying polymers mixed with sawdust and paper … and the latest: nuclear technicians are trying to trace the leak using bath salts! It’s these shockingly pathetic low-tech attempts to fix the problem that is utterly scary. Who knew the nuclear industry was so primitive? If the sci-tech elites don’t know how to fix a badly damaged nuclear facility (in a highly seismic zone, no less), then these life-annihilating nuclear plants shouldn’t be built.
The quake and tsunami were horrific but this unimpressive, serial fumbling and failure to fix the leaks and stop the radioactive emissions at Fukushima is a nightmare unto itself. The surprising, low-tech Chernobyl cement fix didn’t work so now they are trying polymers mixed with sawdust and paper … and the latest: nuclear technicians are trying to trace the leak using bath salts! It’s these shockingly pathetic low-tech attempts to fix the problem that is utterly scary. Who knew the nuclear industry was so primitive? If the sci-tech elites don’t know how to fix a badly damaged nuclear facility (in a highly seismic zone, no less), then these life-annihilating nuclear plants shouldn’t be built.
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