tunas routinely travel 5000-6000 miles... it's in the food chain already and will continue to be so... this is everyone on earths problem now...

holy **** mjoe, is that really a picture of the leak?

somebody should bottle that stuff and market it as holy water.

yeah it is, CNN has pics, apparently they just tried to fill in the entire shaft with concrete as well.

So thats coming out of the suppression pool? reactor containment? or what?

a trench that holds cables and wiring and stuff underneath the plant.

They think it came out of reactor #2 itself.

CNN has more pics in their story:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ex.html?hpt=T2

Well that's not working either. (they should probably try golfballs and rubber eh!?)

The workers poured a chemical compound mixed with sawdust and newspaper into the crack, hoping it would expand and stick. But so far it has not done the trick, officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said.

The effort followed an attempt Saturday to use concrete to plug the the 2-meter-deep (6.5-foot-deep), concrete-lined basin, where authorities had found water gushing directly into the sea via a roughly 20-centimeter (8-inch) crack.


*Asked about the radiation levels in the shaft on Sunday, TEPCO executive Junichi Matsumoto told reporters that it could not yet be determined, because the devices officials were using, dosimeters, do not measure higher than 1,000 millisieverts per hour.

Thats a tough one, there aren't too many ways to seal up something thats leaking at like 300+ gallons per minute besides a mechanical plug, I wonder if molten metal injected into the outlet would do the trick.

So the dosimeters are off the charts.

Splendid. I'm willing to bet when the finally get dosimeters that measure beyond 10 Sv, we'll be seeing 25-35 Sv for the water, possibly even up to 50 Sv. 1 Sv, maybe up to 5 or 6 then?

Isn't 1000 msv = 1 sv?

It's probably around 2-6 sv as reported the amount that those 2 guys got on their feet when standing in the water.

oops

I blame it on the pain killers.

I redact my previous statements.

New:

Kyodo News reported Monday that the government told TEPCO to consider covering the plant's reactor buildings with special sheets. Nuclear specialists opposed the idea, arguing that the impact such shields would have on the spread of radiation from the plant would be minimal, according to the news agency.

A government official also opposed to the proposal criticized it as a quick way to provide the Japanese people with a false sense of security, Kyodo News reported. The cost of manufacturing the barriers would be 80 billion yen, nearly $1 billion in U.S. dollars, according to the news service.

You guys are still on this?

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this is the biggest event of your life

Pretty uplifting story with video here:

Defiant Japanese boat captain rode out tsunami - CNN.com

its only 5000+ miles away get real

40 years from now I will think back to the day the event occurred and I will remember exactly what I was doing when I first heard the news.

I was on my knees with a penis in my mouth.

he lives in Tokoyo.

so i heard the next stalker will be set in japan

They wanna pour the already contained water into the sea, so that they can store even more contained water in their containers.