JAPAN Fukushima’s Radioactive Water to Be Pumped into "Mega-Float" - Polidicks

[quote][img]http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/04/megafloat.jpg[/img] Over 7,000 tons of water have been poured onto Fukushima's scalding fuel rods in a desperate attempt to cool them off. So what happens to that water? It soaks up radiation, and sits there. Big problem. To get some of the contaminated stuff out of there, TEPCO, the plant's owner, is going to pump the water into a gigantic floating barge—known as the "mega-float"—in the city of Shizuoka. Thousands of tons of radioactive water, floating in the ocean. What could possibly go wrong with that plan. Clearly, the scorching water needs to go, but this seems like combining the greatest risks of nuclear and oil power into one potential eco-clusterfuck. The fact that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had to state that the plan wasn't an April Fool's joke is telling. [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists][/quote] -Gizmodo [url]http://gizmodo.com/#!5788202/fukushimas-radioactive-water-to-be-pumped-into-mega+float[/url] [url]http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/tatsujiro-suzuki/daily-update-japan[/url] Radioactive iodine decays quite quickly. Most will have disappeared within a month. Radioactive caesium does not last long in the body - most has gone within a year. However, it lingers in the environment and can continue to present a problem for many years.

Well. Then what are they going to do with the "mega-float"?

If I got this right, the plant is dumping the radioactive shit onto the barge or the coolant? The article was not very clear.

[QUOTE=Within;28939366]Well. Then what are they going to do with the "mega-float"?[/QUOTE] Push it somewhere else.

Sounds like a bad idea... But, what ever floats your boat I guess.

[QUOTE=Mr.T;28939377]If I got this right, the plant is dumping the radioactive shit onto the barge or the coolant? The article was not very clear.[/QUOTE] After they pumped the sea water onto the reactor the water becomes radioactive. There going to put that radio active on the boat.

[QUOTE=Within;28939366]Well. Then what are they going to do with the "mega-float"?[/QUOTE] Deliver N. Korea a vast amount of drinking water, to show our love and respect to master Kim.

can we party on it?

[QUOTE=skynrdfan3;28939495]can we party on it?[/QUOTE] It's not a radioactive yacht! It's a radioactive floating water tank. So... I guess I don't see the harm. Sure, go ahead. [editline]1st April 2011[/editline] Be home before dinner, and don't get hurt!

Source on the OP? An actual link to the news post, I mean.

[QUOTE=Marcolade;28939551]Source on the OP? An actual link to the news post, I mean.[/QUOTE] Two there if you read it. TEPCO, American Science, Gizmodo

Why did I imagine a big glowing parade float?

[QUOTE=ducky5;28939566]Two there if you read it. TEPCO, American Science, Gizmodo[/QUOTE] Link-Something you can click, to take you to a webpage. Link to source- Something you can click, to take you to a webpage, where you found that article in the first place. Comprende?

April Fools? Surely no country would do something this insane... :tinfoil:

im gonna go poke a hole in the float just to be a dick.

[QUOTE=Deiru;28939651]Link-Something you can click, to take you to a webpage. Link to source- Something you can click, to take you to a webpage, where you found that article in the first place. Comprende?[/QUOTE] [url]http://gizmodo.com/#!5788202/fukushimas-radioactive-water-to-be-pumped-into-mega+float[/url] [url]http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/tatsujiro-suzuki/daily-update-japan[/url]

[QUOTE=ducky5;28939715][url]http://gizmodo.com/#!5788202/fukushimas-radioactive-water-to-be-pumped-into-mega+float[/url] [url]http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/tatsujiro-suzuki/daily-update-japan[/url][/QUOTE] Thanks. The general idea of this is making me dubious...Suppose it'd be a shock for any pirates though.

If it does get dumped into the ocean by accident, no big loss. I'm sure it'll just dissipate out to neutral levels of radiation, considering the volume of the Pacific. Unless the whole load ends up in major current and finds its way straight back to Japan. Whoops.

[QUOTE=Smashmaster;28939778]If it does get dumped into the ocean by accident, no big loss. I'm sure it'll just dissipate out to neutral levels of radiation, considering the volume of the Pacific. Unless the whole load ends up in major current and finds its way straight back to Japan. Whoops.[/QUOTE] Or if something triggers another tsunami... Double whoops.

Drag it down to Antarctica. Then use icebreakers to bash a hole in one of the biggest glaciers they can find. Push the mega float in there and then cover it with ice so that it becomes encased in the glacier. Problem solved! As long as nothing crazy happens, like the temperature around the Earth starts rising, it will be safe there forever. /what?

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;28939865]Drag it down to Antarctica. Then use icebreakers to bash a hole in one of the biggest glaciers they can find. Push the mega float in there and then cover it with ice so that it becomes encased in the glacier. Problem solved! As long as nothing crazy happens, like the temperature around the Earth starts rising, it will be safe there forever. /what?[/QUOTE] :what:

I'm doing the math. 10000 tons of water is about 9072 cubic meters. I'm going to underestimate how much the water would disperse--I'm going to say it'll disperse into about a trillionth of the total volume of the Pacific. That's 9,072 cubic meters of contaminated water into 622,000 cubic meters of clean water. The radiation would go down to a hundredth of it's current amount per cubic meter.That's only a TRILLIONTH of the ocean! If the radiation were dispersed into a FIFTIETH of the ocean, like it very well could, the radiation would be immeasurably low. Immeasurably meaning nothing. People get so hyped up because the label says "RADIOACTIVE." The truth is that you're all misinformed.

[QUOTE=Smashmaster;28940056]I'm doing the math. 10000 tons of water is about 9072 cubic meters. I'm going to underestimate how much the water would disperse--I'm going to say it'll disperse into about a trillionth of the total volume of the Pacific. That's 9,072 cubic meters of contaminated water into 622,000 cubic meters of clean water. The radiation would go down to a hundredth of it's current amount per cubic meter.That's only a TRILLIONTH of the ocean! If the radiation were dispersed into a FIFTIETH of the ocean, like it very well could, the radiation would be immeasurably low. Immeasurably meaning nothing. People get so hyped up because the label says "RADIOACTIVE." The truth is that you're all misinformed.[/QUOTE] My thoughts too. A bargeload of radioactive water seems like a lot, but even if it were dumped into Lake Superior it would disperse to the level of regular background. Exactly how many open-air nuclear tests dumped fallout into the air during the 50s, again? All of that eventually washed out into the ocean and had no substantial effect.

[QUOTE=Smashmaster;28940056]I'm doing the math. 10000 tons of water is about 9072 cubic meters. I'm going to underestimate how much the water would disperse--I'm going to say it'll disperse into about a trillionth of the total volume of the Pacific. That's 9,072 cubic meters of contaminated water into 622,000 cubic meters of clean water. The radiation would go down to a hundredth of it's current amount per cubic meter.That's only a TRILLIONTH of the ocean! If the radiation were dispersed into a FIFTIETH of the ocean, like it very well could, the radiation would be immeasurably low. Immeasurably meaning nothing. People get so hyped up because the label says "RADIOACTIVE." The truth is that you're all misinformed.[/QUOTE] That, and the water won't stay radioactive for centuries. It's not like it's pure U-235 :colbert:

[QUOTE=Smashmaster;28940056]I'm doing the math. 10000 tons of water is about 9072 cubic meters. I'm going to underestimate how much the water would disperse--I'm going to say it'll disperse into about a trillionth of the total volume of the Pacific. That's 9,072 cubic meters of contaminated water into 622,000 cubic meters of clean water. The radiation would go down to a hundredth of it's current amount per cubic meter.That's only a TRILLIONTH of the ocean! If the radiation were dispersed into a FIFTIETH of the ocean, like it very well could, the radiation would be immeasurably low. Immeasurably meaning nothing. People get so hyped up because the label says "RADIOACTIVE." The truth is that you're all misinformed.[/QUOTE] I was thinking the exact same thing. However I was thinking it'd make more sense to split the water up into smaller chunks and drop it into the ocean further apart (to minimise any direct damage that would occur). Like maybe fly it out in 100 tonne chunks and dump them several hundred kilometres apart. c = n/v, motherfuckers.

cool to know it's nothing to worry about. i was about to suggest firing it into space. :downsbravo:

[QUOTE=Zero Ziat;28940927]cool to know it's nothing to worry about. i was about to suggest firing it into space. :downsbravo:[/QUOTE] That is the most moronic thing I have ever heard in my life! Do you want the radiation the spread across half the atmosphere!?

[QUOTE=s0beit;28939671]April Fools? Surely no country would do something this insane... :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] Hey, we elected Bush :v:

shoot it in space

[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;28939384]Push it somewhere else.[/QUOTE] [img]http://images2.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/6830887/We-should-take-the-radioactive-water-and-push-it-somewhere-else.jpg?imageSize=Medium&generatorName=Push-it-somewhere-else-Patrick[/img] [editline]1st April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=sltungle;28940713]I was thinking the exact same thing. However I was thinking it'd make more sense to split the water up into smaller chunks and drop it into the ocean further apart (to minimise any direct damage that would occur). Like maybe fly it out 100 tonne chunks and dump them several hundred kilometres apart. c = n/v, motherfuckers.[/QUOTE] That would make sense. Put them into tanks, and then disperse it with hoses deep in the ocean.