Monday, April 4, 2011

Japan traced the Plant’s corridor radiation leakage


Employees at Japan's quake and tsunami strike nuclear plant are utilizing dye to seek to locate the way of extremely radioactive water flowing from a reactor into the sea.
The basis of the seep out was traced at the weekend as a 20cm (8in) fracture in a solid hole in the ground at reactor 2.
Previous struggles to cap the hole using a highly porous polymer failed. In the mean time the plant's operator, Tepco, says it has no alternative but to put 11,500 tonnes of a large amount less impure water at sea from Tuesday.
The decision is to ease up storage room at the Fukushima Daiichi facility for water with much upper levels of radioactivity. The employees must carry on spraying water on the reactors to discontinue them overheating, but pools are strengthen at the power plant.
The water to be freed into the sea holds 100 times the officially permitted limit of radiation - a comparatively low level. The Japanese authorities say there will be not disadvantages on human health. Tepco has been striving for at least three weeks to re-obtain control at the plant after a massive quake and tsunami hit the cooling systems.
Japanese higher authorities say the leakage from reactor 2 must be ended as soon as possible. Yukio Edano told in a press briefing the collective effects of a probable enduring leak will have a massive impact on the sea.
Tepco said it would insert the polymer once again to attempt to stop the flow of radioactive water immediately it had identified the way of the leakage.
As a short term arrangment, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency is allowing for building walls of mud near reactor No 2 to stalk the leak into the ocean.
The official death rate from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami which hit north-east Japan on 11 March reaches at 12,157, with at least 15,500 people still unaccounted for. About 80% of the casualties have been recognized and their bodies sent to their families. More than 161,000 people from earthquake devastated regions are living in emigration centers,
A three-day combined operation by Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the US military to search the missing persons located 78 bodies. In this operation at least 25,000 troops, 60 ships and 120 air craft were involved and it covered Pacific coastal parts of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures

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