"Sinkhole potential at Fukushima plant from pumping up groundwater? Nuclear Expert: Yeah, that’s a very good point — May very well happen if workers take out too much water from an area " Amy Browne, host: Touching back on something you said a minute ago, Dean, about pumping out groundwater — Pumping out groundwater sometimes leads to sinkholes. That potential happening around this seems like it would be disastrous. Dean Wilkie, nuclear reactor operations, management, construction and plant engineering at a U.S. Department of Energy test reactor in Idaho: Yeah, that’s a very good point. [...] At Fukushima now what we’re seeing that all of this work that they’ve been doing with these walls, and then it’s causing the water to back up, it’s starting to saturate soil that’s underneath the buildings and in adjacent areas around the buildings. And so to couple that with the fact that there are known fractures in that soil — it was very obvious during the earthquake — so in our opinion, the water is beginning to saturate the soil. And if they do pump extensively, taking 100 tons of water out of a focused area, they may very well have that problem. archives.weru.org/weru-news-report/2013/08/weru-news-report-8613/
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:52:01 +0000
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