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Fukushima risk of 26-meter tsunami
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has warned its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could be hit by tsunami as high as 26.3 meters.
The deluge would likely cause seawater to mingle with the radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape, according to an estimate that Tepco revealed Friday at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
Tepco said a tsunami of that size occurs once every 10,000 to 100,000 years.
The Fukushima No. 1 plant, more than 40 years old, was crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami after waves as high as 15.5 meters inundated the facility, knocking out all power and disabling the vital backup cooling systems for reactors 1 to 4, triggering three core meltdowns.
Tepco also said the nearby Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant, which is nearly as old as Fukushima No. 1, could be hit by tsunami of up to 27.5 meters, but that its idled reactors and fuel pools would not be damaged by such an event.
4 Comments on "Fukushima risk of 26-meter tsunami"
bobinget on Mon, 6th Oct 2014 5:23 am
I’ll bet Tepco has everything cleaned up in fewer then ten thousand years.
Kenz300 on Mon, 6th Oct 2014 6:43 am
Nuclear energy is too dangerous and too costly…….
Does anyone remember the old slogan the nuclear industry used to push nuclear energy on the world?
“ENERGY TOO CHEAP TO METER”………….. now we find it is too costly to clean up and store the nuclear waste FOREVER.
When we add in the costs to clean up Fukishima and Chernobyl and store their nuclear waste forever we will see that we can not afford nuclear energy.
Had Fukishima and Chernobyl been a solar or wind energy power plant the sites would already have been cleaned up and the people in the surrounding areas would be back in their homes.
Dealing with all the nuclear waste from existing nuclear power plants will bankrupt companies and governments.
Preston Sturges on Mon, 6th Oct 2014 12:23 pm
The story is about earthquake events every 10,000 years, but it runs with a weather map giving the impression they are about to be hit by a storm.
Probably most coastal cities are likely to be hit by a huge tsunami every 10,000 years. NYC is at a highrisk, this one would be set off by an eruption of the Cumbre Vieja Volcano in the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa.
Bob Owens on Mon, 6th Oct 2014 8:59 pm
Let’s see how these spent fuel pools fare after they get shaken around by the HURRICANE about to hit them!