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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT Headline: Japan Admits Nuclear Plant Still Poses Dangers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/world/asia/japan-admits-nuclear-plant-still-poses-dangers.html
In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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NYT Headline: Japan Admits Nuclear Plant Still Poses Dangers (Original Post)
thesquanderer
Mar 2012
OP
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)1. Water is still wet!
Kim Kardasian is still a skank!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. Doh!! n/t
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)3. Good thing I ate my bannana.
Oh wait...for it.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)4. I always hoped to visit Japan one day, not so much anymore.
Unfortunately, all we can do is to keep pumping water inside the reactors, he said, and hope we dont have another big earthquake.
One has to wonder what the effect on the environment and humans will be in
future years.
BHN
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)5. Kick
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)6. Where is all of the water going?
Cooling water at the plants No.2 reactor came up to just 2 feet from the bottom of the reactors containment vessel, a beaker-shaped structure that encases the fuel rods. That was far below the 10 meter-level (33 feet) estimated by officials when the government declared the plant stable in December.
The low water levels also raise concerns that radioactive water may be leaking out of the reactor at a higher rate than previously thought, possibly into a part of the reactor known as the suppression chamber, and into a network of pipes and chambers under the plant or into the ocean. At the No. 2 reactor, workers still pump about 9 tons of water an hour into the core to keep it cool.
The investigation also found current radiation levels of 72.0 Sieverts inside the containment vessel, enough to kill a person in a matter of minutes, as well as for electronic equipment to malfunction.
Kazuhiko Kudo, a professor of nuclear engineering at Kyushu University in southwestern Japan, said it was now suspect whether the nuclear fuel was being adequately cooled. And if some parts of the fuel remained above water, there was a risk the fuel could again heat up and melt. That could trigger a dangerous spike in the pressure inside the containment vessel, and lead to more radiation escaping the reactor, he said.
The low water levels also raise concerns that radioactive water may be leaking out of the reactor at a higher rate than previously thought, possibly into a part of the reactor known as the suppression chamber, and into a network of pipes and chambers under the plant or into the ocean. At the No. 2 reactor, workers still pump about 9 tons of water an hour into the core to keep it cool.
The investigation also found current radiation levels of 72.0 Sieverts inside the containment vessel, enough to kill a person in a matter of minutes, as well as for electronic equipment to malfunction.
Kazuhiko Kudo, a professor of nuclear engineering at Kyushu University in southwestern Japan, said it was now suspect whether the nuclear fuel was being adequately cooled. And if some parts of the fuel remained above water, there was a risk the fuel could again heat up and melt. That could trigger a dangerous spike in the pressure inside the containment vessel, and lead to more radiation escaping the reactor, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/world/asia/japan-admits-nuclear-plant-still-poses-dangers.html?_r=1
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)7. You had to ask...
Supposedly a pool, but more than a few tons have made it into the pacific.