Tepco’s Typhoon measures to prevent contaminated water overflowing entirely messed up

Two more Typhoons are coming to hit Japan from this weekend.

(cf, Two more Typhoons are coming to Japan / Meteorological Agency “Unpredictable” [URL])

 

Having 11 tank area dams overflow on 10/20/2013 even in the normal rain, Tepco is trying to prevent the mixture of rainwater and contaminated water from overflowing due to the next Typhoons.

 

However the back-up tanks of 4,000 m3 capacity is nearly full already. Tepco has to rely on the underground reservoirs that leaked contaminated water this April.

On 10/23/2013, they released the map of water transferring between the tank area dams and the back-up reservoirs, but it looks shockingly unorganized (The image below).

They are going to introduce additional tankers and fire-engine but it is not known if they can control the water sufficiently.

Tepco's Typhoon measures to prevent contaminated water overflowing / Entirely messed up

 

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_131023_08-j.pdf

 

Because of the guiding of Japanese family and the next research, I decided to accept the donations temporarily again. Thank you for your consideration.

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Français :

Les solutions contre les typhons de Tepco pour parer aux débordements d’eaux extrêmement radioactives sont totalement brouillonnes

 

Deux typhons supplémentaires arrivent sur le Japon à partir de ce week-end. (cf. Deux typhons de plus se dirigent sur le Japon / L’agence météo : “Imprévisible”)

Tepco essaye d’empêcher les débordements du mélange d’eaux extrêmement radioactives et d’eaux de pluie pendant les deux prochains typhons, alors que 11 endiguements de zones de citernes ont débordé lors de pluies normales, le 20 octobre 2013.

Or, les citernes de réserve ayant une capacité de 4 000 m³ sont déjà pratiquement pleines. Tepco doit se rabattre sur les réservoirs enfouis qui ont fuit en avril dernier.
Le 23 octobre 2013, ils publient la carte des transvasements entre les endiguements de citernes et ces réservoirs mais on dirait que ça a l’air scandaleusement désorganisé (image ci-dessous).
Ils vont mobiliser des camions-citernes et des engins de pompiers mais on ne sait pas s’il vont pouvoir suffisamment gérer les eaux.
Tepco's Typhoon measures to prevent contaminated water overflowing / Entirely messed up

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_131023_08-j.pdf

J’ai décidé d’accepter temporairement les dons à nouveau à cause du guidage de la famille japonaise et de la prochaine recherche. Merci d’y penser.

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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