Leaky Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuke Plant Gets 400 Tons of Contaminated Water a Day

The Mainich [English] – Water leaks at Fukushima plant raise questions over plan to store radioactive water

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said on April 9 that radioactive water was leaking from another underground cistern at the crippled Fukushima No. l Nuclear Power Plant, raising serious concerns and questions over whether the utility’s plan to handle ever-increasing radioactive water would be effective.  

Radioactive water was found leaking from an underground storage tank to which contaminated water was supposed to be transferred from another underground cistern where leakage was detected over the weekend. Partly because of the influx of underground water, about 400 tons of contaminated water accumulates each day at the nuclear complex. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power station, had planned to build water tanks that are relatively easy to set up and use them as “trump cards” for handling polluted water. But the latest revelation of the leakage at another underground cistern at the plant has cast doubt on the feasibility of the plan.

Following the latest discovery of the leakage, the utility unveiled its plan to transfer contaminated water into other storage tanks with a total capacity of 43,000 cubic meters on the premises of the nuclear plant for the time being in an attempt to find a way out of the trouble. . . . (more)

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130410p2a00m0na012000c.html

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New York Times calls 400 tons of contaminated water a day “thousands of gallons“. Nice work.

TEPCO’s contaminated water

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TEPCO admits contaminated water leaking from multiple temporary storage pits at Fukushima Daiichi

Last week, TEPCO announced that radioactive water was leaking from temporary underground storage pits, and was likely to continue until the water could be transferred.  The first reported leak occurred in a tank located some 800 meters from the Pacific Ocean which contained processed water which had been used to cool down the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. . . 

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http://enformable.com/2013/04/tepco-admits-contaminated-water-leaking-from-multiple-temporary-storage-pits-at-fukushima-daiichi/

“Sunday, TEPCO admitted that a second temporary underground storage pit was leaking as well.  The second leaking pit contains 10,000 tons of contaminated water.“

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Fukushima: Water Level Drops at Units 1-3 + Updates

Sharp drop in water at Fukushima Reactors No. 1-3 — “Below level regarded as necessary to keep fuel inside cool”

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Thursday that the amount of water injected into the crippled Nos. 1 to 3 reactors temporarily dropped below the level regarded as necessary to keep the fuel inside cool.

 Although the sharp drop in the water volume did not last long enough to push up the temperature of the reactor pressure vessels, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it will investigate the cause of the incident because water injection is the “most important” system to ensure the stable condition of the reactors. . .  (more)

http://enenews.com/kyodo-sharp-drop-in-water-at-fukushima-reactors-no-1-3-below-level-regarded-as-necessary-to-keep-fuel-inside-cool

The LIVE CAM shows creepy steam at the plant. [at 12:45 pm.m. EST] We won’t even bother with a screengrab because this happening so often lately. - F.C.

UPDATE, Aug. 31

Tepco struggling to control the coolant system, “Adjusted the valves 7 times for 2 days”

Sept. 3 -   Water flow to Fukushima reactors dropped again

EX-SKF: #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Plankton and Rust May Be Clogging Up the Valves in Water Injection System, Says TEPCO

Sept. 4 – No prepositioned chemicals  in event water drains from fuel pool[!!!]

Sept. 8 – Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Video Inside the Buffer Tank Shows White Particles Floating in the Treated Water, Rust on the Bottom

Sept. 14 – Fukushima Worker – We don’t know what is really going on inside Reactors 1, 2 and 3

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Highly Radioactive Water Spills All Over Floor of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4

HAZMAT in Japan on Thursday, 16 August, 2012 at 03:05 (03:05 AM) UTC.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Tuesday morning discovered possibly highly radioactive water on the first floor of the No. 4 reactor turbine building at its disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The company believes the water leaked from a pipe that is transferring highly radioactive water from the basement of the No. 3 reactor’s turbine building. A TEPCO worker found the water on the floor of a power control room in the No. 4 reactor turbine building at 11:15 a.m. The company confirmed that the leak had stopped by about 1 p.m. after the radioactive water transfer was suspended at 12:20 p.m. According to TEPCO, a puddle of water about one centimeter deep had collected on the floor of the 350-square-meter power control room. There was no water leak outside the room, the company added. The water is estimated to contain tens of thousands of becquerels of radioactive cesium per cubic centimeter, according to the firm

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20120816-36201-JPN

Fukushima – Contaminated Water Leak at Reactor 4

From EX-SKF -

(Photo) Contaminated Water Leak at Reactor 4 Turbine Building at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Kanaflex Hoses and Duct Tape
 http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/08/photo-contaminated-water-leak-at.html

TEPCO Changes Facility Management Plan for Fukushima Daiichi

They are filling up the contaminated waste storage there.

Tokyo Elec. Power : (Aug 2,2012) Changes to the Reports on Our Facility Management Plan for Unit 1-4 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Based on the “Policy on the Mid-term Security” (Version 1, Revision 2 and Version 3, Revision)

 

Fukushima: Unit 2 Has Lost Cooling System

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Coolant system of SFP in reactor2 is stopped

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