TEPCO halts work to remove radioactive water

Hannah Bell

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Wed Mar-30-11 04:08 AM
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TEPCO halts work to remove radioactive water

The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suspended work to move highly radioactive water from the basement of the turbine building into the turbine condenser at the No. 1 reactor.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the water is now about 20 centimeters deep, half the initial level.

Plant workers are now using pumps that can draw 10 to 25 tons of water per hour to move water from the condensers' storage tanks into other tanks. They then hope to move water inside the condensers into the storage tanks and fill the condensers with the highly radioactive water from the basements.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 16:37 +0900 (JST)

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enum

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Wed Mar-30-11 04:52 AM
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1. Why not use robot technics for dangerous work like that?

Isn't Japan one of the leading nations for developing and
constructing robot systems even equipped with some kind of
artificial intelligence? Please correct me if I'm wrong but
why have so many human beings to be led in that enormous kind
of life-threatening danger? Seems I do not real understand the
intentions of TEPCO ..

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kedrys

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Wed Mar-30-11 06:24 AM
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2. High radiation fries electronics

Plus robots don't move around well in rubble.

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formercia

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Wed Mar-30-11 07:15 AM
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3. Commercial electronics don't fare very well under those levels of Radiation

Computer chips will go haywire.

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