Cracking reactor 4

Following up this article ..Cold weather destroys water cooling system

Tepco admitted they can not stop water leakage from reactor4, SFP, and pool for the reactor facility which are all connected to each other.
They assert those facilities are all full but water decreases twice as fast as usual from the pool to accept water overflown.
The leaking water is contaminated. It is assumed to flow into the basement floor of reactor4.
Tepco analyzes it’s because pipes are frozen and damaged, had their employees find the leaking part.

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4号機建屋、汚染水漏れ続く=配管など損傷か-福島第1
東京電力は3日、福島第1原発の4号機原子炉建屋の原子炉と使用済み燃料プール、機器用プールに共通して張っている水が建屋内に依然として漏れ続けているとみられると発表した。水位はほぼ満水状態に維持しているが、あふれた水を受けるタンクの水位が通常の2倍のペースで低下しているため、漏出の可能性が高いと分かった。
この水は放射能汚染水で、もともと汚染水がたまっている建屋地下へ流れているとみられる。配管接続部などの凍結、損傷が考えられ、作業員が場所の特定を急いでいる。(2012/02/03-12:54)

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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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