Plan to build ice wall around Fukushima plant hits snag.. oh, really?... #2 TEPCO change their story...

This in today:

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TEPCO finds water in tunnels not yet frozen
Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant say their effort to freeze radioactive water in underground tunnels hasn't gone as planned.

In April, they began pouring chemical solutions into tunnels at the No.2 reactor. They hoped to freeze the water to stop it flowing out to the sea.

But tests show the water remains above freezing temperature.

Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company believes objects in the tunnels are preventing the coolant from spreading evenly. They also said running wastewater is slowing the process.

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[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]


Well that changes things significantly!... the 'wall' was supposed to have a clay wall next to it as well but cost too much...

And more damning, the wall was supposed to STOP fresh water going in and instead sideline to the ocean. NOW, they are telling us the wall is to stop water leaking out!... major difference....

(not exactly tomato, tomatoe is it).....

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NATIONAL JUN. 18, 2014 - 11:00AM JST ( 27 ) TOKYO —
The operator of Japan’s battered Fukushima nuclear power plant said Tuesday it was having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken reactors to contain radioactive water.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has begun digging the trenches for a huge network of pipes pipes under the plant through which it intends to pass refrigerant.
This will freeze the soil and form a physical barrier that is intended to prevent clean groundwater flowing down mountainsides from mixing with contaminated water underneath the leaking reactors.

TEPCO said Tuesday a smaller, inner ice wall whose pipes it sank earlier to contain the already-contaminated water was proving difficult.

“We have yet to form the ice stopper because we can’t make the temperature low enough to freeze water,” a TEPCO spokesman said.

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Full decommissioning of the plant at Fukushima is expected to take several decades. An area around the plant remains out of bounds, and experts warn that some settlements may have to be abandoned because of high levels of radiation.

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[link to www.japantoday.com]

Has any one told these "Experts" you can't freeze water around 3 Molten Laval Coriums?

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 06/18/2014 12:50 AM