I Wonder How They're Gonna Fit It Into Yucca Mountain...

[WillyT]

'Mega-float' to store irradiated water
Apr 1, 2011 4:07 PM
By Sapa-AFP
The operator of Japan's disaster-stricken nuclear power plant plans to use a huge steel floating structure to contain radioactive water it releases, officials said Friday.

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The pontoon-type structure which can hold a maximum of 18,000 tonnes of water will be handed over to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) by its owner which has been using it as a floating park for anglers, they said.

Called a "Mega-Float," it measures 136 metres (450 feet) long, 46 metres wide and three metres high and can hold up to 10,000 tonnes of water without sinking. It is owned by the Pacific coast city of Shimizu southwest of Tokyo.

"We've decided to provide it to the TEPCO because we want to help evacuees come back as soon as possible," Shimizu mayor Zenkichi Kojima told reporters.

The Maga-Float will be moored off the Fukushima Daiichi plant where emergency workers have been battling to prevent a nuclear meltdown.

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Link: http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/article999316.ece/Mega-float-to-store-irradiated-water

:wtf:

:banghead:

:kick:

[no limit]

1. What happens when this fills up?

[neverforget]

3. They don't know because all they're doing is reacting to the problems.

They're overwhelmed.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Oh god, I can envison this "solution" morphing into a fleet of these things.

" By Jove, that's it!!!! We'll get a fleet of these, fill them with radioactive spent fuel and anchor then in the middle of the ocean. What could possibly go wrong?"

[WillyT]

4. Could End Up Like This... But With Lots Of Radioactive Water Inside...

:shrug:

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. "No one could have forseen ANOTHER tsunami that high....."

[spin]

5. Imagine another Tsunami ...

I would think that this container would break free of its moorings and the highly radioactive water could contaminate a large area. Of course, the radiation would be diluted by the amount of water in the flood.