Radioactive Fukushima groundwater rises above barrier being built to contain it

[dixiegrrrrl]

Radioactive groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier being built to contain it, highlighting the risk of an increasing amount of contaminated water reaching the sea, Japanese media reported on Saturday.

The Asahi newspaper, citing data from a Friday meeting of a task force working on the Fukushima clean-up at Japan's nuclear regulator, estimated that the contaminated water could swell to the ground surface within three weeks.

One of Tepco's biggest challenges is trying to contain radioactive water that cools the reactors as it mixes with some 400 tonnes of fresh groundwater pouring into the plant daily.
Tepco has been injecting a chemical into the ground to build barriers to contain the groundwater. But the method is only effective in solidifying the ground from 1.8 meters below the surface, whereas data from test wells shows the contaminated water has risen to one metre below the surface, the Asahi said.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/03/japan-fukushima-nuclear-idINDEE97202S20130803

Sigh..........................

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. rec!

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!!

[PearliePoo2]

3. This disaster has been out of control since day 1.

One lie after another.
TEPCO knows there is no way at present to find any remedies at all to this epic catastrophe.
The technology hasn't even been invented. No one can get even close to inside these reactors to take a look, hell, the radiation is so off the charts it fries their robots. They don't even know where their melted-down corium blobs are for sure! (most likely, they have burned their way through containment and into the rock strata below).
This is far from over...this FUBAR is actually just getting going...

[Octafish]

4. TEPCO boss went sightseeing March 11, 2011.

I kid you not.

Vanishing act by Japanese executive during nuclear crisis raises questions

By Andrew Higgins
Washington Post
March 28, 1:51 PM

TOKYO — In normal times, Masataka Shimizu lives in The Tower, a luxury high rise in the same upscale Tokyo district as the U.S. Embassy. But he hasn’t been been there for more than two weeks, according to a uniformed doorman.

Death, devastation grip Japan following quake: A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and several powerful aftershocks struck the eastern coast of Japan on Friday afternoon, triggering tsunamis that devastated the coastline north of Tokyo.

Gallery: Death, devastation grip Japan following quake: A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and several powerful aftershocks struck the eastern coast of Japan on Friday afternoon, triggering tsunamis that devastated the coastline north of Tokyo.

In fact, nobody has seen much recently of the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, owner of a haywire nuclear power plant just 150 miles from the Japanese capital.

He is the most invisible — and also most reviled — chief executive in Japan.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/vanishing-act-by-japanese-executive-during-nuclear-crisis-raises-questions/2011/03/28/AFDnHNpB_story.html

Some people get away with littering, thanks to Corporate McPravda.

[PearliePoo2]

7. "Some people get away with littering"

Littering is one way to put it!! How about polluting the Pacific Ocean 24/7 with untold TONS of radioactive water and no end in sight?
TEPCO is building storage tanks as fast as they can but they have run out of room to put them and the ones they have built have started LEAKING and corroding already.
This deadly shit is flowing unstopped into the ocean and the Japanese fisherman are PISSED. They too, have been lied to repeatably.
This is a global crime against the planet.
Remember...Japan and TEPCO wanted NO HELP from international companies and experts when this went down.
I heard myself the Japanese Ambassador tell CNN/Blitzer that Japan would handle it themselves.
How's that working for you now, TEPCO?
Lying, inept, criminal fuckers...
(edited to add more adjectives)

[They_Live]

8. our own ignorance and lack of imagination

will destroy the human race.

[The Straight Story]

5. Kick (nt)

[PufPuf23]

6. kr nt

[Jackpine Radical]

9. All this unfortunate publicity

is likely to poison the public against clean nuclear power, which will be a darned shame because the oil companies were counting on their holdings of Uranium reserves to sustain them after Peak Oil and Peak Gas. This deplorable turn of events could seriously damage the income potential of a significant proportion of the .001%.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I will shed no tears over that outcome.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. How can you not weep over the misfortunes of the ultra-rich?

Have you no heart?

[matthews]

12. There's no way to clean up this mess, there's no way to contain it.

We are simply screwed. Wait until cooling tower #4 hits the ground.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Which puts us in teh interesting position

of fatefully watching a slow moving unavoidable disaster engulf us all.
Between global warming/climate change, and the karma of Japan nuclear-izng the planet, tis a grim reality.
Made only slightly more bearable because it is so damn democratic...the 1% can't hide from it either, even as they scramble to be the holder of the most toys before the end.
Rod Sterling would appreciate this.

[matthews]

15. They have their underground bunkers to keep them safe.

Of course they'll have to stay down there forever. Wonder how they'll impress everybody then.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. The Mole People....

[tblue]

13. Whatever they tell us, it's worse.

My gosh, this is so scary I don't know what anybody's gonna do.