More Government and Tepco lies , more Tepco foibles and screw ups .....
Reactor5&6 pump up 6,000 tones of seawater per hour from Fukushima port to discharge to outside of the port
Posted by Mochizuki on September 27th, 2013 · No Comments
On 9/26/2013, Tepco announced reactor5 and 6 pump up 6,000 tones of seawater from the plant port per hour. The water is used to cool down the reactors, and it’s discharged to the outside of the plant port.
In the presentation to IOC, Japanese prime minister Abe stated the contaminated water is completely blocked in Fukushima nuclear plant port, but it turned out to be false.
(cf, JP PM Abe to IOC “Contaminated water is completely blocked”→Tepco “Tritium can’t be blocked” [URL])
From Tepco’s own report published this August, it was 7,000 m3/hour instead of 6,000 tones/hour.
Seawater fence for reactor5&6 cut off due to high waves / Tepco “No radiation leakage”
Posted by Mochizuki on September 27th, 2013 · 5 Comments
Following up this article.. Seawater fence for reactor5&6 cut off / Can’t fix it due to the high waves for the Typhoon [URL]
In the press conference of 9/26/2013, Tepco commented they assume the seawater fence was cut off due to the high waves affected by the Typhoon.
It revealed the vulnerability of the Fukushima port facilities.
On 9/27/2013, Tepco reported the radiation levels (Cs-134/137, All β) are in the past measurement range, no radiation leakage is observed.
Tepco not to investigate nor take countermeasures for reactor3 “steam” anymore
Posted by Mochizuki on September 27th, 2013 · 4 Comments
Following up this article.. Tepco “Can’t disclose atmosphere contamination data because the crane is malfunctioning” [URL]
On 9/26/2013, Tepco announced they abandoned investigating the “steam” from reactor3 anymore. They were assuming it may be the evaporated rainwater or PCV gas, but the reason is not identified yet.
Tepco commented the dust sampling data around the “steam” doesn’t show the significant increase of radiation level. They won’t investigate the origin of the “steam” nor take any countermeasures anymore.
400,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclide detected in the coastal area of reactor2 / Second highest record
Posted by Mochizuki on September 27th, 2013 · 2 Comments
According to Tepco, they measured 400,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclides (including Strontium-90) from the groundwater in the coastal area of reactor2.
Tepco has been building the impervious wall to surround this area, where is between reactor2 turbine building and the sea, in order to stop contaminated water leaking to the sea.
Because the groundwater started overflowing, Tepco is pumping up the groundwater and send it back to the turbine building.
This is the second highest reading in this area. The sampling boring was near reactor2 turbine building, where may be directly leaking the retained coolant water.
Fukushima worker will decrease by 23% from this October
Posted by Mochizuki on September 27th, 2013 · No Comments
According to decommissioning state of progress report by Tepco published on 9/26/2013, the total Fukushima workers per day will be 2,400 from this October. This is 23% less than 3,100 of this August or September.
In the press conference of 9/25/2013, Tepco commented the contaminated water is increasing faster than they build new tanks.
(cf, Tepco “Tank construction can’t catch up with increasing contaminated water” / “Trying to think of the solution” [URL])
It was not announced if they decreased the number of the workers intentionally or they couldn’t collect sufficient number of the workers.
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