Subject: Fukushima Update 4-23
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:31:53 -0400
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0TuK8BXFAs
- Looks like they are getting serious about training
up men for the arduous task of beating back the atomic behemoths. Note that
this facility is 20 km away! I believe that this is where they are planning
their War-Room. Hopefully, the plans are to establish lower dose areas, closer
in to Fukushima.
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* It looks like they are deploying underwater
Containment devices to "Corral" the water-borne contamination
* Sampling of the ocean shows areas of "above
standard" contamination
This is the "Recovery Phase" of an event.
Unless major changes occur, there won't be much on which to report, but I am
sensitive to reading between the lines.
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/22_23.html
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/22_01.html
Radioactive level up at reactor water intake
The operator of the troubled Fukushima nuclear power
plant says it has detected higher levels of radioactive material in sea water
samples near the water intake of one of the reactors.
The Nuclear Safety and Industry Agency says,
however, there are no traces of highly radioactive water leaking into the sea
from the plant.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company says it detected
160 becquerels of radioactive iodine-131 per cubic centimeter in samples of sea
water collected near the water intake for the Number 2 reactor on Wednesday
morning. The figure is 4,000 times the national limit and higher than the
level detected on Tuesday.
It's the same site where water contaminated with
highly radioactive material was found to have been leaking into the sea on
April 2nd. The leakage was fixed 4 days later.
TEPCO
says it also detected radioactive cesium-134 at 2,300 times the limit and
cesium-137 at 1,600 times the limit on Wednesday morning. These levels are also
higher than those detected on Tuesday.
The
Nuclear Safe and Industry Agency explains that seawater containing highly dense
radioactive material is piling up due to a special fence set up in the area to
keep the leakage of the contaminated water from the Number 2 reactor water
intake. It says it sees no new leakage of highly radioactive water.
TEPCO says the levels of radioactive material are on
the decline at the 4 monitoring points off the coast of the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant.
The
highest level in the latest checkup for cesium-134 is 5.3 times the national
limit at a point about 10 kilometers south of the plant.
Friday, April 22, 2011 02:09 +0900 (JST)
Regards
Chris in Delaware
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