Monday, August 05, 2013

"Right now, we have an emergency"

That's a quote from the head of a Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority task force, Shinji Kinjo, with regard to our old friend, Fukushima.  Contaminated water, which has come from the 400 tons of groundwater pumped into the plant every day to cool the reactors, could rise to the ground's surface within three weeks.  This would join the 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium which are already there.

There appears to be no place to store the contaminated water as the more than 1,000 giant holding tanks surrounding the plant are nearly all full.

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