Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water

[unhappycamper]

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/21/reference/fukushima-no-1-cant-keep-its-head-above-tainted-water/#.UZtqC8pdCX1

Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water
by Reiji Yoshida
Staff Writer

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As of May 7, Tepco had routed 290,000 tons of radioactive water into some 940 huge tanks at the complex, but 94,500 tons remain inside the basement floors of the reactor buildings and other facilities.

Tepco must perpetually pour water over the melted cores of reactors 1, 2, and 3 via makeshift systems to prevent the fuel from melting and burning again.

But the cores’ containment vessels were damaged by the meltdowns, allowing the highly radioactive coolant water to leak and flow into the basements. The dangerous radiation levels have prevented workers from getting close enough to fully assess the damage, let alone start the decommissioning process.

Compounding the problem is some 400 tons of groundwater that is also entering the basements of the tsunami- and explosion-damaged buildings, mixing with the leaking coolant water.

[RobertEarl]

1. Coolant water

Sounds so clean, doesn't it?

But we can figure that the water flowing over and in direct contact with the corium, is the world's deadliest water. People can't even get close to the stuff, much less wash with or drink it.

And so much of it is just flowing through the buildings and into the pacific.

Anybody here who starts the bullshit that this pollution is negligible, or won't make any difference, or is somehow to become acceptable, is an anti-environmentalist who is actually a far worse person than a climate change denier.