I ’ll echo Boing Boing ’s thought on this narrative : This is no joke . plain a series of preventative polymeric water absorbent dams ( the diaper - like fabric ) have been ineffectual to terminate radioactive water supply from leak into the Pacific Ocean around Fukushima .
The situation sounds disastrous , with little if any of the contaminated piddle being engulf by the super - absorbant material :
Engineers put 8 kilograms of the polymeric urine absorbent together with 60 kilograms of sawdust and three old bag of shredded paper into piping contribute to a cavity connected to the No . 2 nuclear reactor edifice where a 20 - cm crack cocaine has been found to be leaking radioactive H2O into the Pacific Ocean , the agency say .
However , those materials injected at a point 23 meters away from the seaboard colliery have not been sucked into the water flow , leaving no impingement on the pace of leakage , said Hidehiko Nishiyama , a spokesman for the governmental Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency .
That blockquote make out courtesy the Kyodo News , which has also reported that containment might not be 100 % for “ several months . ” [ Kyodo NewsviaBoing Boing ]
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