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from one of the comments:

There is no groundwater aquifer underneath Fukushima Daiichi. The plant sits on at least a 450 feet thick layer of mudstone/sandstone which is relatively impervious to liquids. A 1988 document for a Tokyo world conference on earthquake engineering proves they have earthquake sensors that were drilled down in several places under Unit 6 and the deepest accelerometer gauge is 143 Meters into mudstone (about 450 feet). The document about the depth of the gauge is here: www.iitk.ac.in

I found quite a few web documents about the mudstone/sandstone layers under Fukushima Daiichi.

The mudstone layer may go as deep as 800 meters and the Germans have a nice little piece on their theory of corium flow which they fairly dismiss as unlikely to get much water action and also about underground water in general for Japan (very small distribution of aquifer systems in Japan’s main island …almost all drinking water comes from rivers:

www.welt.de Try Google Chrome for a fairly decent translation.

They also point out as I learned elsewhere that the concrete foundation pad under the compromised reactor vessel at Unit 3 is about 15 feet thick.

So we’re safe right? Just wait until the corium (all three) burn out in about ten years? Maybe hasten the process by pouring some minerals down the hole if they can ever get a machine capable to do that over the exit wound?

Well, that sounds OK if we assume the corium has a vertical mind. Hmmm… so maybe it doesn’t? Maybe it is going to find a path to the sea without going straight down 2600 feet to the granite layer which would surely be a tough nut for the corium to crack.

Remember our new TEPCO term…the melt-out. Not Melt-down, not melt-through, but melt-out. The sea is only a few yards from the reactors…one new theory is that the corium will find a path to the sea. If that happens then the steam explosion theory re-enters the playbook… dungheap.wordpress.com

@MaryW yes,we could write a tepco dictionary meanwhile :)

@MaryW cores in the sea. Pacific would be toast. Pacific seafood would be a ruined industry for generations.

@Lurking Oooh pictures of the reactor well - I think Cryptome has better picture versions than TEPCO put on their website?

EDF fined for hacking into Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org

government policy on decontamination decreases radiation level in 2 years that just happens to equal the expected decay of cesium 134. www3.nhk.or.jp

It turned out that pressure in D/W of Unit 2, which is one of the plant
parameter, such as water level, pressure of temperature, was incorrect
from 11:00 pm on October 29 to 11:00 pm on 10 November. This is because
the pressure loss in the pipe for additional amount of injected nitrogen
gas was not considered for the calculation of the pressure in D/W
although injected amount of nitrogen gas has been increased
appropriately since October 28 when the operation of gas management
system of primary containment vessel started. Because revised pressure
in D/W calculated by correct pressure loss in the pipe exceeds
atmospheric pressure, there is no problem about its safety. The revision
of value of the past data will be informed separately. www.tepco.co.jp

@elainekirk damn, i noticed the pressure problem in #2 .....

@Edano how far back have they corrected

i was watching the odd pressure difference all the time .... and now it's gone :)

@elainekirk yeah just like that :)

RT @W7VOA: Kyodo quotes gov't ministers saying #Japan decides to join negotiations for big Pacific trade accord. #TPP

@Edano I don't think the data collection dept liase at all with those on the ground everything seems out of date when picked up on, it is as though they have weekly meetings and those are the only time somebody working on the ground gets to see the data and point out discrepancies #justmytakeonit

Gov't to reduce radiation dose for children by 60% in 2 yrs

TOKYO, Nov. 11, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp