Tackling TEPCO's Water Problem

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"TEPCO is a bearer of a water problem that sets daunting challenges ahead of its ambitious plan to decommission the Fukushima reactor site. In many ways, getting the millions of gallons of radioactive water out of buildings at the site is a path to getting the decommissioning program in place and working against a predictable schedule."

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"According to the Daily Yomiuri and the Associated Press, last week TEPCO started to transport tanks, each with a storage capacity of 120 tons and measuring 15.1 meters long and 3.7 meters in diameter, to Fukushima Prefecture from a tank manufacturer in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture."

"TEPCO plans to deliver a total of 370 tanks -- 170 units with a storage capacity of 120 tons and 200 units with a capacity of 100 tons. The operation is expected to continue until mid-August, according to the utility. So how much water will the tanks hold?"

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1. So well planned.

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2. Maybe

They could modify that mayor's plan a bit and put solar panels on the top of all those tanks while they are at it.

[SpoonFed]

3. I'm just going to assume that it was the hubris of the operator and the engineers involved...

that didn't stop for a second to plan out this sort of contingency. If you work from some false assumptions like nuke power is fail-safe, there haven't been any "developed" countries with major incidents, our designs are better, blah, blah, then you probably aren't sitting around on a Wednesday morning thinking about what to do with a gazillion tons of contaminated water across 3+ reactors at a massive plant, now are you? (That would be a cold January or February morning, not a March, April, May, June... morning)

Now it's taking a disturbing turn when the world's best and brightest are supposed to be finding solutions and things continue...