Hear much of anything about the impact Sunday's Typhoon Songda has had on the Fukushima nuclear disaster? Yeah, we haven't either. Which is either good news....or else horrible news because the truth is just too bad for the public to be allowed to learn.
Apparently the Typhoon was enough of a deluge that the spent fuel pools are now overflowing as a result of the rainwater.
Notice how overflowing spent nuclear fuel is not even the main topic of the article..its thrown in towards the end like "oh yeah, by the way...the spent fuel is overflowing now too, no biggie, we're on it".
We're so glad that spent nuclear fuel pools are still uncovered and exposed to the elements like jr's kiddie pool in the backyard.
From Kyodo:
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant plans to resume transferring radioactive-contaminated water within the No. 3 reactor's turbine building by securing additional room to pool it, company officials said Thursday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. was set to resume the operation at a time it is working to prevent the tainted water from spilling out of pits and other facilities at the plant before activating new equipment that can recycle the problem water to cool down reactors about two weeks later.
The utility sees the amount of tainted water increasing in turbine buildings and nearby pits at the station as a recent typhoon brought substantial rainfall to the complex, 220 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. The rainy season zone is also approaching Fukushima Prefecture and other areas in the northeastern Tohoku region.
