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Radioactive Water Leak in Japan Gets Plugged with Sawdust and NewspaperWorkers in Japan at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was damaged in the March 11th earthquake and ensuing tsunami, recently discovered an <strong>eight inch crack</strong> in a maintenance pit that is estimated to be leaking radioactive water into the ocean at the rate of <strong>seven tons an hour</strong>. The water was tested and was found to contain one million Becquerels per liter of iodine 131 -- which is about 10,000 times more radioactive than water normally found at a nuclear power plant. In an effort to stop the flow of water workers tried to block the leak with concrete on Saturday. When that effort failed they turned to a mix of sawdust, shredded newspaper and chemicals. After they had the mixture in place, workers realized they were targeting the wrong area of the pit and are currently searching the plant for the source of the water.1
Radioactive Water Leak in Japan Gets Plugged with Sawdust and NewspaperWorkers in Japan at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was damaged in the March 11th earthquake and ensuing tsunami, recently discovered an <strong>eight inch crack</strong> in a maintenance pit that is estimated to be leaking radioactive water into the ocean at the rate of <strong>seven tons an hour</strong>. The water was tested and was found to contain one million Becquerels per liter of iodine 131 -- which is about 10,000 times more radioactive than water normally found at a nuclear power plant. In an effort to stop the flow of water workers tried to block the leak with concrete on Saturday. When that effort failed they turned to a mix of sawdust, shredded newspaper and chemicals. After they had the mixture in place, workers realized they were targeting the wrong area of the pit and are currently searching the plant for the source of the water.2
Radioactive Water Leak in Japan Gets Plugged with Sawdust and NewspaperWorkers in Japan at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was damaged in the March 11th earthquake and ensuing tsunami, recently discovered an <strong>eight inch crack</strong> in a maintenance pit that is estimated to be leaking radioactive water into the ocean at the rate of <strong>seven tons an hour</strong>. The water was tested and was found to contain one million Becquerels per liter of iodine 131 -- which is about 10,000 times more radioactive than water normally found at a nuclear power plant. In an effort to stop the flow of water workers tried to block the leak with concrete on Saturday. When that effort failed they turned to a mix of sawdust, shredded newspaper and chemicals. After they had the mixture in place, workers realized they were targeting the wrong area of the pit and are currently searching the plant for the source of the water.3
