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Japan radioactive water to be released

Japan radioactive water to be released
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Japanese engineers are being forced into desperate measures to try and find the source of the leaks at a crippled nuclear power complex. Skip related content

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They have resorted to powdered bath salts to produce a milky colour to help them trace the flow.

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) says it is also planning to drape a curtain into the sea off the nuclear plant to try to prevent radioactive silt drifting out into the ocean.

The plant operator had to release low-level radioactive seawater that had been used to cool overheated fuel rods after it ran out of storage capacity for more highly contaminated water.

TEPCO said it would release over 10,000 tonnes of contaminated water that was about 100 times more radioactive than legal limits.Engineers are still struggling to regain control of damaged reactors at the plant in the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986, with the government urging TEPCO to act faster to stop radiation spreading.But one official is warning it could take months to stem the leaks, and even longer to regain control of the power station, damaged by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Nyfiken:Why this 10000 tonnes of contaminated water that was about 100 times more radioactive than leval limits ...in Japanese it is written in the every newspaper as Low level radioactive water...What means LOW LEVEL?
by nyfiken | 2011-04-05 02:08