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awesome. soooo much fun.
New problem at Fukushima site; sandbags found to be radioactive
new….sure
Sandbags placed as an emergency measure to lower radiation levels of contaminated water in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster now turn out to be so highly radioactive they pose an obstacle to the decommissioning of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A recent survey showed that the materials are in such a hazardous state that plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. is having to postpone its program to discharge the contaminated water.
“The sandbags should be removed, but that will not be so simple,” said an official of the Nuclear Regulation Authority. TEPCO is struggling to find ways to safely remove 26 tons of sandbags in the basements of two buildings near the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors, where a triple meltdown occurred. They were packed with a mineral called zeolite to absorb radioactive cesium.
They are emitting radiation levels of up to 3 to 4 sieverts per hour, which would kill half of the people exposed to the high reading for an entire hour. Soon after the nuclear crisis began to unfold, TEPCO used the two buildings as substitutes for tanks to temporarily store a huge volume of heavily contaminated water produced on the plant site.
In doing so, the zeolite-packed sandbags were installed on the floors of the buildings' basements to absorb radioactive substances in the water. Interest in the sunken sandbags waned as the years passed, but the issue surfaced again in December 2018 when TEPCO measured radiation levels in the two buildings’ basements in preparation for removing radioactive water there. Significantly high radiation levels were detected just above the floors. A zeolite sample collected from the sandbags recorded a cesium concentration of about 130 million becquerels per gram.
TEPCO has been forced to delay the water removal procedure at the two buildings to fiscal 2023 or later. It initially planned to finish the process by 2020. If it doesn't have countermeasures in place when the water is released, the highly radioactive sandbags will be exposed to air. TEPCO is now weighing ways to safely dispose of the contaminated materials. One idea is to suck up the zeolite from floors above ground and store it in other receptacles, and the other is to pack the material in different containers in water for temporary storage.
But officials acknowledge that those measures will not eliminate all safety risks.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13228942
Que KRS? A little slow on muh abbreviations
Elon Musk N628TS G6 on ground at Hawthorne, Ca
took 2 round trips yesterday and one today with three full ones on Saturday. All to Brownsville, Txand squeezed in a stop at Las Vegas on saturday too.
ok now I know who 'dat is but early on I had so much going on IRL-the fam shit- it was hard to keep up with who was who much less the habbenings. Had to go to the friggin library at times cause my house was so toxic and that set-up didn't last long iykwim.
tell you all about it one day after MANY drinks-kek
>the library would be a killer
it wasn't…had to keep looking over shoulder. I'm sure I looked like some effin perv doing that was there for the start of the battle of the bewbs so that got shut off quickly.