An astonishing detail buried at the end of an Asahi Shimbun news report: leak inspections of newly built tanks for holding radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi were performed in the rain. The inspections consisted of pouring clean water into the tanks and then eyeballing them for leaks (water tank leak testing protocols typically call for foundations to be dry during the test period, for obvious reasons). The flange-type tanks made of bolted steel sheets can hold a thousand tons of water and have a useful life of about 5 years, about the same as a can of Coca-Cola. Well, it’s an emergency situation, you know. And no records were kept of the inspections. Tanks now holding about 300,000 tons of radioactive water have been inspected by twice-daily walking “patrols” of workers looking for major rust spots or leaks, but they do not usually carry instruments to measure radioactivity or keep full records. In mid-July, TEPCO now reports, some workers at a radio relay station near a tank not discovered to be leaking until August 19 began to experience rising beta-particle exposures.
Steel tanks by the sea,
Waiting to hold dead water,
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Leak in summer rain.