NEW YORK TIMES: Ultimate Worst Case Scenario Underway At Fukushima?: (NEW YORK TIMES) -- [...] “The nuclear crisis is real and ongoing, yet the government continues to look the other way,” said Yoshiko Kira of the opposition Japan Communist Party, which made significant gains in parliamentary elections last month.“The government should declare a state of emergency right now, and intervene to stop the outflow of contaminated water,” Ms. Kira said at an anti-nuclear rally outside Mr. Abe’s office in Tokyo.Mr. Abe remains popular, and it is uncertain how large a liability the crisis at the Fukushima plant will become for him.But it has become increasingly clear that the latest problems may be too large for the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, to handle.Tepco has built nearly 1,000 tanks at the sprawling complex to store as many as 335,000 tons of contaminated water, the product of coolant pumped into the reactors to keep their cores from overheating, and groundwater pouring into their breached basements at a rate of 400 tons a day. b4in/r0JS
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 05:53:04 +0000
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