[Column] Is Japan discharging contaminated water or can’t stop the leakage ?
Posted by Mochizuki on August 9th, 2013 · 3 Comments
There’s a huge difference between discharge and leakage.
However when it comes to Fukushima contamination to the Pacific, the border becomes quite blur.
I think this is because even the press is not familiar with the situation because they haven’t been closely following Fukushima situation.
Not to mention, discharge is way less serious than leakage.
They can stop discharge but leakage cannot be stopped by someone’s will maybe.
The reality is “It’s leakage”.
(They might be discharging some part but in the meaning that they can’t stop the volume of water increasing, it’s the same.)
Fukushima plant is now the machine to automatically produce 1,000 tones of contaminated water every single day.
Only less than half is collected and stocked by Tepco. The rest is flowing to the sea.
Now they consider three countermeasures.
1. Purify and discharge it.
2. Build the wall on the mountain side to lessen the total volume of groundwater.
3. Build the wall around the buildings to make it manageable.
This week Japanese government stated they consider spending national budget on 3.
Some people say they should have done it sooner.
More and more people are expecting the government to take care of Fukushima decommissioning.
However, the problem is not who to do it. It’s how to do it.
So, how much money do they need in total ? How many workers do they need in total ?
There’s no answer for these questions.
Why ? Because there is NO TECHNOLOGY to do it.
Human beings don’t have any technology to decommission Fukushima. This is the true problem.
Even number 3 is the case with no examples. There are numerous pipes, trenches and structures surrounding the buildings as well.
If they fail like they failed in the impervious wall on the coastal line, it would cause a flood around the buildings where they can’t stop groundwater flowing in also.
The things must be done are below,
1. Move ordinary citizens to the safer place.
2. Investigate what is going on in Fukushima / How bad it is and define what technology is needed.
3. Invest into building the circumstances where the international world can develop all kinds of technology.
Some people say they just liked money too much so they didn’t want to spend enough on decommissioning.
However, if they spend more on the wrong countermeasures, it would cause further catastrophe. and governmental body is likely to do it. First of all, more money should be spent on the plant investigation. We shall learn from from the fiasco of the impervious wall on the coastal line.
We shall use whatever is useful, and focus on developing the technology and minimize the number of the victims.
[Express] “Radioactive density offshore Fukushima/Tepco 2,700Bq/Kg → Tokyo Uni 40,152Bq/Kg”
Posted by Mochizuki on August 9th, 2013 · No Comments
Introducing important tweets as [Express] for simultaneous updates.
<Translate>
Radioactive material accumulated on the bottom of the sea Fukushima offshore.
Tepco’s analysis : 2,700 Bq/Kg
Tokyo University’s analysis : 40,152 Bq/Kg
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Tepco to complete building the impervious wall on the seaside of reactor2 today
Posted by Mochizuki on August 9th, 2013 · No Comments
Following up this article..Tepco started pumping up the rising groundwater on the seaside of reactor2 [URL]
According to Tepco, the impervious wall on the coastal line is going to be completed on 8/9/2013.
They have been injecting the chemical material on the seaside of reactor2 since 7/8/2013.
It consists of the double lines. The second line on the land side has 114 underground structures.
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