Fukushima Planning: Dump Radioactive H20 instead of Leak it
Link to ENE News-Officials want to Dump contaminated Water instead of letting it Leak
In an admission of defeat to a problem which experts recognized as unsolvable at it's inception - the scientific minds have decided that they must dump the Fukushima contaminated water into the ocean.
Since running out of space in water holding tanks, the anything goes solution has now become the go-to plan for the disaster at Fukushima.
Link to ENE News-Officials want to Dump contaminated Water instead of letting it Leak
In an admission of defeat to a problem which experts recognized as unsolvable at it's inception - the scientific minds have decided that they must dump the Fukushima contaminated water into the ocean.
ENE News ; August 8 2014 Quotes Excerpted from Video wrote:Yomiuri Shimbun, Aug 7, 2014: Groundwater to be pumped up from some of the subdrain pits includes high levels of tritium, a radioactive substance that cannot be removed [...] However, TEPCO believes it is possible to [...] meet standards if the water is mixed in tanks with water pumped from other subdrain pits.
Kyodo, Aug 7, 2014: Tepco to collect toxic groundwater at Fukushima, dump in ocean after treatment [...] it is unclear whether [the plan] will work as smoothly as expected, one of the officials admitted. [...] Radioactive substances such as tritium and cesium have been detected [but] TEPCO says it aims to clean the water to a level that would do no harm to the environment, but tritium will remain untreated [...]
Since running out of space in water holding tanks, the anything goes solution has now become the go-to plan for the disaster at Fukushima.