TEPCO Revises Plan To Stabilize Reactors

[DeSwiss]

Source: NHK World

TEPCO revises plan to stabilize reactors

NHK World
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 22:05 +0900 (JST)



The operator of the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has revised its plan to bring it under control. Tokyo Electric Power Company announced the changes on Tuesday, one month after it released its original plan.

The original plan called for filling up Number 1, 2 and 3 reactors with water, but TEPCO says injected water may leak out under present conditions.

This is due to the recent discovery that fuel rods for the Number 1 reactor had melted, apparently damaging the vessel containing the reactor, and a large amount of water has been found to have leaked out of the vessel. The utility suspects that the Number 2 and 3 reactors are in a similar situation due to apparent meltdowns. (Oh, really?!?!?)

The company now says it will reduce the amount of radioactive materials in the water accumulated in the reactor and turbine buildings. Then it will circulate that water as coolant between the reactors and the turbine buildings. It also plans to install heat exchangers to cool spent-fuel storage pools at Number 1, 3 and 4 reactors by about July.


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- Don't you just love their tacit admission that they "MAY HAVE THREE MELTDOWNS" going on at the same time????

DeSwiss





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[damntexdem]

1. How many millenia will they need to stabilize them?

;-)

[sofa king]

2. In light of the fact that we were lying our asses off before....

[DeSwiss]

4. And they haven't stopped lying yet. n/t

[eggplant]

3. Is there a reason they can't reuse the radioactive water?

And just keep pumping it back in to the reactor? It would seem so obvious that there must be a reason they don't or can't.

[DeSwiss]

5. Water.....

...that has become radioactive after cooling nuclear fuel rods, would not create sufficient heat to run a turbine so as to create electricity.


- On the other hand, using radioactivity to create the steam used to run a turbine is a stupid enough idea all by itself......

[defendandprotect]

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