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Water leaks indicate new damage at Fukushima nuclear plant

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By MARI YAMAGUCHI

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Make the leaks bigger and dump the water in the ocean. It is the only proper thing to do.

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Oh yeah, Fukushima... how we traveling there? Probably best not to ask.

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Waited until the weekend to 'Leak' the information, when the Mass Media is asleep....convenient!

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Fukushima is an example to the world of exactly why we should all transition away from nuclear. Green energy is the future.

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And yet I seem to remember somebody saying that everything was "under control" at the power plant

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Bungle - It’s been ten years. How long do these things need cooling?

Around 500 years.

Even spent fuel rods continue to react and need to be cooled. Tell me again how nuclear power is safe and cheap.

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Tokyo Electric Power Co spokesman Keisuke Matsuo said the drop in water levels in the Unit 1 and 3 reactors indicates that the existing damage to their primary containment chambers was worsened by last Saturday's magnitude 7.3 quake, allowing more water to leak.

BS. TEPCO has been leaking waste water on purpose for the past decade -- gradual sweeping under the carpet.

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"It’s been ten years. How long do these things need cooling?"

A very good question! Here is the answer: Ten thousand million OKU billion years...

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So their initial statement was that there were no abnormalities, or at least no reports of abnormalities.

Take 2. Radioactive water sloshed out of the cooling pools above the reactors. Not a lot and none escaped to the outside environment.

Take 3. Further damage to the containment vessels indicates increased leakages of radioactive cooling water in Reactors 1 and 3. Nothing reported from Reactor 2 as the measuring instruments have been removed.

Slowly we get to see the picture. Better to know than to be ignorant. I give thanks for this, and for the continuing efforts of the valiant people trying to appease these wounded monsters.

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Dump them in the ocean

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Tokyo Electric Power Co spokesman Keisuke Matsuo said the drop in water levels in the Unit 1 and 3 reactors indicates that the existing damage to their primary containment chambers was worsened by last Saturday's magnitude 7.3 quake, allowing more water to leak.

Why are these brazen liars called Tepco still allowed to manage the Fukushima plants. Who in their right senses believes any statement by Tepco. I don't,

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Paul14/dothehustle, the current fleet of reactors around the world use technology adapted from that designed to make weapons grade material, never designed to produce electricity, they are intrinsically unsafe which is why they have to build in safety structures which make them so expensive to construct and run active safety systems and protocols making them expensive to run.

They only “burn” about 5% of the fuel which is why the “spent” fuel rods are so very radioactive.

There are systems designed for non weapons purposes which in fact don’t produce weapons grade materials (why governments weren’t interested) and are intrinsically walk away safe so much cheaper to build and run. Nuclear will have to be part of the future energy mix but we have to make sure the legacy industry doesn’t foist tarted up versions of the old dangerous tech on to us.

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Most of us will be long dead before this problem is even half-sorted.

Meanwhile, the Olympics will put a smile throughout Fukushima.

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