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Fukushima I Nuke Plant Pond Leak of April 2013: TEPCO – Waste Water from Pond No.2 to a Steel Tank, Will Take 6 Days

http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-pond-leak-of_17.html

17 April 2013

EXSKF

OK, so it will be 150 tonnes per day, using temporary pipes and a temporary tank between the Pond No.2 and the final destination which is about 550 meters away.

The Reverse Osmosis apparatus is currently operated intermittently, according to TEPCO (handout for the press in Japanese, 4/16/2013).

From the 58-page handout for the press conference given by the TEPCO president Hirose (4/17/2013):

In-the-ground water storage ponds and where the RO waste water is going. Green line in the map is where the waste water from the Pond 2 is travelling:

The physical set up to transfer the waste water in the Pond No.2 to a steel tank in H2 area. (I seems to be hallucinating the leak already…):

In the handout, I don’t find any reference to any effort to make any of the temporary contraptions since March 11, 2011 into a permanent, stable one.

Here’s page 26, showing photographs of electrical panel for the Reactor 2 Spent Fuel Pool cooling system, which was rigged up after the accident. “Look what we found! A small animal (rat) can get inside!” So what did TEPCO do? Cover the lines with plastic sheets:

From my experience in living in a countryside, rats and mice can easily chew through plastic sheets.

I hear that Mr. Naomi Hirose, TEPCO’s president, is a very smart guy, with MBA from Yale University. He’s from sales and marketing, and not an engineer. He was in charge of TEPCO’s highly successful push for “all-electric” homes, which significantly boosted the electricity consumption in large cities, which in turn was used to justify building more nuclear power plants. Yale MBA Program apparently wrote it up as a case study. I’d love to see it.

I can see that he is indeed an MBA, as he sets up a new “communication” department to better communicate with the press, the government, and citizens as if communication is what’s wrong with TEPCO and Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.

April 17, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized