NEWS ADVISORY: U.S. forces to provide water to cool Fukushima plant: Kyodo News

[flamingdem]

"NEWS ADVISORY: U.S. forces to provide water to cool Fukushima plant: Defense chief Kitazawa"

Just up on http://english.Kyodonews.jp

[Angry Dragon]

1. Interesting...............

[flamingdem]

2. Gawd I wonder who gets this job, do they have lead lined ships? nt

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3. Zirconium 95 discovered at Fukushima drainage outlet - Yoimuri

Yomiuri: TEPCO detected zirconium 95 at 0.23 Bq 330m south of Fukushima-1 drainage outlet on Wednesday.

[godai]

4. Some information from NHK TV.

It was stated that US cargo vessels, SDF refueling vessels and US pump systems may be used to pump fresh water into the reactors.

My guess is that these large capacity vessels would be filled with fresh water somewhere, then moved to Fukushima, where the pump systems would transfer this water ashore.

[flamingdem]

5. Interesting, I was wondering how they'd solve the fresh water issue nt

[aquart]

6. That's one expensive relay system.

But this can only be a delaying tactic, right? What are we delaying? What are we delaying it for?

What's next?

[flamingdem]

7. Gulp. Umm. So far they've done a thumbs down on entombment

because it's not cooled down.. so I guess it's a matter of cooling it down and wow, that could take a while I suppose.

That's a lot of water. But consider the alternative.

I'd say we're delaying Chernobyl x6

[aquart]

9. That's what I'm thinking but I don't know enough physics to think it.

14 million people in Tokyo. My two Japanese friends are in Germany and I'm wondering if they can ever go home.

[godai]

8. Trying to save some of the reactors?

Save in the sense of getting them under some degree of control. This would be 5 and 6, maybe 4. From what I heard tonight, #3 is looking very bad, with leakage from the containment vessel. Sad for the men exposed to the very high radiation there. They were partially shown on NHK TV, walking behind a blue tarp. They seemed to be walking slow and unsteadily.

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10. Rumor is the USA offered immediate help

on the condition that they lose the plant.

Tepco said no. They still were talking saving 5 and 6 today!

Yes, the poor workers. I worked for the Japanese. They do
not accept weakness or giving up or having any excuses.