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Newly-Completed Fukushima 'Containment' Wall Already "Slightly Leaning"
Just weeks after re-starting the building of a giant ice-wall to contain groundwater leaking from the Fukushima nuclear plant, TEPCO has been forced to admit that a 780-meter protective wall built alongside the crippled power station (completed only last month and designed to prevent contaminated groundwater from seeping into the sea) is already "slightly leaning." While this sounds a lot like being half-pregnant, TEPCO remains 'optimistic' that the wall will hold. But you can't say the government is not trying - in an effort to 'calm' the public, scientists have developed a special scanner to accurately measure the amount of radioactive material inside the bodies of young children... which is odd given just how "contained" Abe said it was.
The 780-meter coastal wall along the damaged reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was built to stifle the flow of tainted water into the sea from 400 tons to 10 tons a day.
The “impermeable” barrier has an underground section that reaches 30 meters deep. TEPCO officials have claimed that such a structure should reduce the amount of radioactive cesium and strontium flowing into the sea to one fortieth of previous levels, while the tritium levels should be reduced to one-fifteenth.
But, as RT reports, the "impermeable sea wall" is leaning already...
Completed only last month and designed to prevent contaminated groundwater from seeping into the sea, the wall is already “slightly leaning,” plant operator TEPCO has announced.
TEPCO however remains optimistic and has said that the slight lean does not affect the wall’s ability to block radioactive water.
The operator is now reinforcing the wall with steel pillars.
Inspection into the construction was completed in late October and also discovered cracks along the perimeter of the wall in the embankment’s pavement.
Officials have blamed rising groundwater levels for the cracks – and keep repairing them to make sure that rain does not increase the groundwater levels even further.
And then there's this, as The BBC reports,
It's nearly five years since the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster but concerns about possible health problems - especially in children - are still high in many parents' minds.
To reassure the public, scientists have developed a special scanner to accurately measure the amount of radioactive material inside the bodies of young children.
Now the results of over 2,500 scans have just been released.
So that's reassuring then.
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The nail that sticks out gets the hammer.
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Well... thank god at least it's contained
To planet earth and the bodies of little children at the moment...
The Leaning Wall of Fukishima.
Why don't these idiots go to sea a few kilometers and drill a big hole into deep sediments. Connect a pipe from the reactor complex to the deep hole and pump all the contaminated water down the hole. It will take 100,000 years to leak out but by then the short-lived elements will have decayed. It's a lot better than letting it pour into the ocean or piling into tanks.
the great wall of cesium.
freeze the wall?
I think someone here once proposed to pump the radioactive water into oil tankers and send them down to antarctic to freeze solid.
That sounded good to me...
There is no fix for nuclear meltdown in the manual.
Look up the definition of science, it's not what you think...
Tepco engineering definitions:
Science Dammit.
For Science's sake...He is free to practice his religion....as long as it is not Christian
You are being so...so...so microaggressive.
I need my safe zone now.
I FEEL so offended.
Now you forced me to take the name of Science...in vain.
I want to be in charge of reporting these scanner results and the fucking idiot amerikans on the west coast had better fuck off thier bullet trains to no where and get some scanners of thier own.
Are you kidding me? This won't work...FAIL.
Bu..bu..but all these years they've been telling me nuclear power is cheap and clean. Surely this is all a misunderstanding. Chernobly certainly cannot happen here. Un-possible.
I am now scared of the nuclear power plant in the town next door. I guess we need nuclear power plants in order to keep my 10,000-inch flat screen television playing Real Housewives all day.
All is good as long as I try not to think too much. Television helps me to do that.
The leaning tower of 'shima
"tepco remains optimistic" holy fuck that warrants more than being optimistic any expertise in japan
Yep,,, Nuclear, a fine example of green technology!
Thats just the glow of the escaping neutrons...
obama was pro nuclear energy in 2008.
Hellova way to boil water.
Just turn the Mr Magoo space telescope (Hubble) around put in a geosynchronous orbit over a big pot of water in New Mexico and wallah, boiled fucking water. What? I can't think of everything, you mooks need to come up with some ideas too.
What if the telescope wobbles?
GEO, if I recollect correctly, is at 22,236 MILES.
HST has a Focal Length of 189 Feet thus any light collected will never reaxh the ground...even from its current altitude of 344 miles,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
But what really gets to me is what unbalanced force that you thought would cause that telescope to wobble...especially since it is gyroscopically stabilized???
I hope that both his post and your response were in jest...but...
Just curious...that is all.
Do tell...
"While this sounds a lot like being half-pregnant, TEPCO remains 'optimistic...'"
That about sums it up.
An engineering masterpiece...lmao!...next, whadya say next we build the butresses!
Fukushima was a fatally flawed design from day one. Multiple Ph.D level engineers quit the project in protest over safety issues, but their concerns were overriden and ignored in the name of profits and making a big sale. Now that the plant has turned into a giant pile of steaming radioactive waste, General Electric is nowhere to be found.
Ahh, corporate personhood. Nothing like being able to create a legal 'person' that is immune to prosecution, imprisonment, or anything resembling a death penalty; all in the name of maximizing "shareholder return." When that day comes that the USA receives the full measure of what it has earned over the centuries, rest assured that the crimes of General Electric and Fukushima will be right at the top of the list of grievances justifying the horrifying punishments to come.
The foundation of sacrifice is slavery.
Welcome to the, "Ring of Fire", bitchez.
Be sure and visit tsunami alley, during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics... The (3) eyed SUMO wrestling is almost. "sold out".
What an inflammatory non storey, just to get the sheeple excited. A sheet pile wall interlocks and has flexibility.
Settlement and cracks in surface pavement? over unstable ground? Duhhhhh. Another non-storey
NON STORY? R>U WETARDED?
You must live in the middle KingDUM.
The fact the wall is leaning a little is a non-storey. It's not uncommon with sheet walls if there's unstable ground behind them. These walls normally have tiebacks to hold the walls, set WAY back. Doesn't look like they had room for tiebacks becasue buildings are close behind the wall.
And I do know what I'm talking about.
I don't give a flying fuck, what you think you know.
The whole Cockamamie plan was a "still born" failure.
You're a fool, and usefull idiot. I live on the west coast of the United States, and levels of radioactive elements, are rising.
The ones with an extra neutron, that don't occur naturally.
Oh wow, radiation levels are rising. Big deal. They are almost unmeasurable.
Why don't you seal your house and tape up all your windows and doors. However if you check, you will find that most of the west coast is extremely high in RADON GAS. It accumulates in houses and will give you a dose of radiation TENS to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of times higher than from anything that washes up from Fukishima.
Do you ever set foot in an aircraft? Because flying gives you HUGE doses of radiation, especially if you fly at high latitudes.
How about bananas? They are radioactive too. Eating one banana gives you hundreds of times more radiation than has showed up off the west coast from Fukishima.
You are scientifically illiterate and pretending you know how to read....
The 1/2 life of an irradiated banana, and your brain, has intersected with caesium 137, and it's friends.
Your pals @ Tep Rupt aren't getting off that easily.
You should talk to my liberal friends. ;-)
Yup, you are illiterate. Bananas are NOT IRRADIATED. They contain a radioactive isotope of potassium. So they are naturally radioactive.
You get all organic, radioactive bananas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tO1xhgYvUM
I'm pretty sure you're illiterate.
He is here to pester you.
Anopheles is the Genus name of a mosquito.
First I heve never built anything on top of an unstable foundation as that just guarantees a disaster.
It is like our Economic System, It is destiined to collapse because of the lack of a stable foundation. The value of the currency is unstable. Thus the underlying structure is failing.
If he ever erected a structure without a stable foundation, and he actually WAS a Structural Engineer, then his license to operate has been revoked and he has been fired and blackballed.
He actually gave you the argument that you couild have used to blow wide gaping holes in...his...um...er...HER DIALOUGE.
This is FlakFRAU. FlakFRAU you are such a fuckin' CUNT,
Now go ahead and change usernames...you pretentious, dishonest bitch.
Ignore her.
Yen Cross - you always everywhere that I have read on occasion, except in this exchange, do much better than this. In this exchange, you're just violently wrong on multiple counts; including the name-calling.
This is Fight Club.
The ad homenum is expected and justified as this is not a formal debate.
And FlakFRAU is a liberal Obama supporting CUNT, an AGW advocate, who is operating under a different username.
She is DISHONEST...posing as a man.
She is not stupid or ignorant.
She trolls this site for entertainment, seeking to fill the void in her empty meaningless life.
She believes that she has to prove her superiorty due to her lack of self esteem.
Actually it is sad...sad and vaccous.
The wonders of the false dichotomy. Just because bananas naturally emit ration does not mean they are not irradiated. The naturally emitted radiation is not strong enough to delay ripening so bananas generally receive anywhere from .3kGy to 1.0kGy at the factory depending on insect parasite concerns in either the source or destination market (certain varieties other than Cavendish have a lower tolerance for radiation and the dosage would be adjusted accordingly).
I think if you could have misspelled a few more words people would have actually lent greater credence to your engineering expertise ;-)
I was the only one of 250 that passed the engligh profishy text.
Keep gumming that Grammar, when your molars fall out.
hes the kind of engineer with his first name stitched into his jumpsuit.
In all seriousness though, id trust a blue collar shovel-leaner for this project over the Japanese. Japs done fucked it up twice already.
Originally, they were correctly spelled - radiation changes things.
Originally, they were correctly spelled - radiation changes things. . . Here's proof!
Had this happened in China, everyone who was anyone at TEPCO would have already been hung.......
along with several others
GE is as responsible as anyone for this shit. You know the cronies all up Pres climate changers queer ass.
No, TEPCO is responsible. They didn't train their operators properly and they never upgraded the reactors like everyone else that are running the same reactors.
But yeah, it was a really bad design decision to put all the electrical in the basement, right beside the ocean.
But tell me, in houses with basements, where is the electrical panel located? Does anyone give it a second thought?
What the FUCK does an electrical panel, or some dipshit explanation, have to do with nuclear core material.
The melted cores/material, still can't be found, because anything electrical gets destroyed by radiation within a few hours?
All Hail Satan...
You need to have some one on one with ARNIE Gunderson.
The point about the electricals is, I believe, that th80-90% of thr problem was caused by the failure of the cooling pumps. They had to use new-laid electrical cabling to get the pumps going, but by that time things had got a bit warm.
If the electrical system hadn't been in the basement, the coolant pumps would still be running today. And NO PROBLEMS.
But even after the electrical system flooded and took out the cooling pumps, there was one simple solution. The system was designed for compete loss of power. If the operators had opened ONE valve in the upper building, there would have been NO PROBLEM. That's training.
"And the rivers, lakes & sea shall be poisoned"
hey their radiation food probably aint as bad as bill gates gmo soft kill
Radiation, used to boil water in nuclear reactors.
Ice, frozen water.
Anyone else besides myself see the problem here?
Not diverting the Strontium aquifer is kabuki. Where are the coria?
Holding gamma radiation/ short halflife radiation behind a stupid Ice Wall is hillarious.
maybe the Japs can mag---lev a few frozen train cars, around 'Fuku-Fuked-Up'?
So that wall will prevent contaminated water from seeping into the sea? HaH! Lets put some red dye in the contaminated water and SEE what happens.
(I know they could measure radioactivity, but wouldn't dye be more fun?)
TEPCO leadership should be in jail, company nationalized and japan government should consolitade inertanional community to solve this worldwide disaster
well, now that that problem is solved. what's next?
>japan has the best education system in the world churning out the suposid smartest people on the planet
>for some reason, cannot clean up radiation and restarts nuclear facilities and keeps selling the technology all over the world whilist denying the problem.
Makes perfect sense-not
I have come to the conclusion that no one should have nuclear energy.
Especially overeducated stupid asians.
leaning 20cm and not finished yet. lol wait till the last piece is in place and the wall takes the full force of the water. Hey dumbasses, the water has to go somewhere. Stupid is as stupid does. and remember GE We bring good things to life. like four eyed cousins.. . .
Japan bought the plant from the US, GE I believe, good old american engineering!