3 Reactors May Be Breached, Nuclear Disaster Continues
Kyodo is now reporting that officials at the Fukushima nuclear power plant are injecting freshwater into both reactors#1 and #3. Radioactive water was also found leaking at reactor #2. This means that higher levels of radiation have likely leaked into the atmosphere.
Officials are UNABLE to even get in the area of the possible leak to find out what is actually going on.
2 of the 3 workers who stepped into the radioactive water were exposed to 2 to 6 sieverts of radiation below their ankles.
Fresh coolant injected, high-radiation water leaks in nuke crisis
TOKYO, March 25, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it has begun injecting freshwater into the No. 1 and No. 3 reactor cores at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to enhance cooling efficiency, although highly radioactive water was found leaking possibly from both reactors as well as the No. 2 reactor.
The latest efforts to bring the troubled reactors at the plant under control are aimed at preventing crystallized salt from seawater already injected from forming a crust on the fuel rods and hampering smooth water circulation, thus diminishing the cooling effect, the plant’s operator said.
Breach suspected at troubled Japanese power plant
Associated Press
By SHINO YUASA and JEFF DONN
March 25th, 2011
TOKYO – Two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a crisis at a nuclear plant, the facility is still not under control, and the government said Friday there is a suspected breach at a reactor. That means radioactive contamination at the plant is more serious than once thought.
Japanese leaders defended their decision not to evacuate people from a wider area around the plant, insisting they are safe if they stay indoors. But officials also said residents may want to voluntarily move to areas with better facilities, since supplies in the tsunami-devastated region are running short.
The escalation in the nuclear plant crisis came as the death toll from the quake and tsunami passed the grim milestone of 10,000 on Friday. Across the battered northeast coast, hundreds of thousands of people whose homes were destroyed still have no power, no hot meals and, in many cases, no showers for 14 days.
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