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ODAKA, JAPAN A cemetery has low visibility in

heavy windy about 20 km away from Fukushima

Nuclear PowerPlant, prior to the second

anniversary commemoration of the tsunami and

earthquake on March 10, 2013 in Odaka where is

exclusion zone , Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

Japan on March 11 will commemorate the secondanniversary of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and

following tsunami, that claimed more than 18,000

lives. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Getty

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Japans Nuclear Accident Response Director Warnsthat Tepcos Actions Might Cause Reactor Buildingsto Collapse

Washingtons Blog

August 7, 2013

Tepcos ill-considered efforts to

change soil permeability and waterflow have caused severe problems at the

site including highly radioactive

groundwaterbubbling up to the surface.

NHKnotes:

The vice governor of Fukushima

Prefecture has asked the

government to take the lead in

handling the matter and stop the

leakage. Masao Uchibori told an

official from the NuclearRegulation Authority that some of

Tepcos measures have increased

the risk of further leaks.

The Wall Street Journals Michael Arnold says:

Obviously this is a massive public health issue if it gets into the

ocean obviously this could be spread throughout the Pacific, could

also get into the food supply.

Background here and here.

But there is another stunning threat.

Specifically, BBCpoints out:

Engineers are now facing a new emergency. The Fukushima plant

sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer. Deep beneath

the ground, the site is rapidly being overwhelmed by water.

What happens when you pour hundreds of thousands of tons of water (400

metric tons each day times 2.5 years times 365 days in a year equals 365,000

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metric tons of water) onto soil which sits above a massive aquifer?

We noted last year:

The spent fuel pool at Fukushima

Unit 4 is the top short-term threat to

humanity, and is a national security

issue for America.

As such, it is disturbing news that

the ground beneath unit 4 issinking.

Specifically, Unit 4 sunk 36 inches

right after the earthquake, and has sunkanother30 inches since

then.

Moreover, Unit 4 is sinkingunevenly, and the buildingmay begin

tilting.

The Wall Street Journal reports today:

As [Tepco] prepares this week to start work on a new set of

measures that would ring off and cap the area where the most

highly contaminated water has been found, some experts and

regulators are saying that the battle to completely contain

radioactivity to the site of one of the worlds worst nuclear

accidents may be a losing one.

***

Its preparing to extend the underground hardened-earth barrier in

a ring around the most heavily contaminated section of coastline, in

hopes of heading groundwater off before it can flood in. Tepco is

also proposing to cap that ringed section with gravel and asphalt,

so nothing gets out. The operator is hoping to get an initial ring ofhardened ground done by October.

***

But theres a risk to changing the flow of groundwaterin the ways

that Tepco is considering, saidTatsuya Shinkawa, nuclear

accident response director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and

Industry, at a news conference last month. The water could pool

dangerously underground, softening the earth and potentially

toppling the reactor buildings, he said.

No wonder even top Japanese government officials are calling for Tepco to be

fired

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