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Regarding TEPCO needing a location to transfer all that tainted water in the basements........might ship it over to the swimming pools of all those TEPCO execs and upper managers !!!! They keep telling the people of Fukushima that its NOT THAT dangerous........

@Reed I really do wonder why--has anyone seen a credible reason given why it wouldn't work? I was picturing the kind of giant fuel and water tanks the army flies in for wars and disasters, but @elainekirk wondered about safety and space constraints and she's probably right, but why NOT supertankers? They can be working on sequestering it SOMEWHERE while they continue to not figure out what to do with it--any sealed place is better than where it is. Their new tank system, including the underground one that won't be ready even by their estimates until mid-August, will only hold 1/10 of the water they've already got, to say nothing of the amount they'll add to between now and August, and thereafter. Not a permanent solution by any means, but might it be something do-able, and sooner than their faux 'road map'? I think all that water running off and soaking in just horrifies everybody.

Of course the nuclear goons are going to try to tear Arne Gunderson down. He's telling the truth, and he knows what he's talking about. When they come after you like that, Arne, you know you're getting to them. I've been watching them try to assassinate people's characters for 25 years. Their targets are my heroes.

@Mart The fact that there's 105,100 tons of water leaking into the ground at a dangerous risk of overflowing directly into the ocean...while a national company waits upon a foreign company to fabricate, ship, install, and start-up a facility to decontaminate said water without a back-up plan such as a supertanker, just amazes me.

@Reed By the time the bridge was constructed the water leak would have hapened.

@Mart Bien dit!

Shipping high radioactivity liquids are is very risky enterprise. Move to where? IMHO establish precedents of such shipments is the global suicide.

I certainly wouldn't envisage shipping it anywhere. I would hope it might be one thing to consider to temporarily hold the contaminated water in sealed places with slosh baffles while better and more permanent solutions for reprocessing are found. I just think waiting until perfect solutions are found or industrial processing is ramped up means that meanwhile hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive water just runs off onto the land and into the sea and to prevent that, it seems to me, it's worth taking more vigorous action than is being 'road mapped' right now?

www.eia.gov "Most existing gas storage in the United States is in depleted natural gas or oil fields that are close to consumption centers. Conversion of a field from production to storage duty takes advantage of existing wells, gathering systems, and pipeline connections. Depleted oil and gas reservoirs are the most commonly used underground storage sites because of their wide availability"

Water is easier then natural gas to re-inject into the spent oil reserviours as it has a very high/large static head of the weight of the water. Small 100 hp pumps would be the only force needed.

@Lethbridgean So am I. Sleep well.

Chinese minister recommends independent nuclear safety regulator in wake of Fukushima
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@Mart I think there's some general agreement the small furry mammal is the aptly named tanuki - this is from the wiki entry: Tanuki (狸 or タヌキ?) is the common Japanese name for the Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus). They have been part of Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is reputed to be mischievous and jolly, a master of disguise and shapeshifting, but somewhat gullible and absent-minded.

@es Thanks! I'd just figured it out. He/she is a very handsome creature. Looked very calm and comfortable in his activities. I certainly wish him well and wish he'd get out of there...

TBS cam is on the move zoom and pan

@es that was a tough interpertation.... not sure what they were saying... but it does sound as though they may have been sold a inferior porduct... the vast array of "counterfiet components in all markets"" is well documented (an a major problem in industriy today).... seems that some of the verbage was in reference to that ... could you tell

@es "conterfiet componenents" are a major problem.... I spent two years inspecting high pressure systems after the Surry NPP boilerfeed water line breack in 1985.. It is such a problem again with the "global and Internet sales" that many companies are now having to rewrite and institute newer programs, these still will not find all the "false items an papers" but its the best everyone cando as long as people are out there forging components...

@es www.washingtonpost.com this is a typical "non-saftey" issue article.... but that shipment could just as easily have been relief vavles , EDG for anywhere etc... had 10 pounds of a product cost the comapny i was working for over a half mil... and because of tort laws... even with the documents that sounds(!!!) like TEPCO had its hard to recoup your loses... and the offending parties are hard to touch because its international..