Japan's Nuclear Issue: Jesus to the rescue

This is awesome. The Japanese are looking to the Russians to help remove radioactive water. The ship that can do this is “Lilly of the Valley”.

Song of Solomon 2:1
[ The Bride’s Admiration ] ” I am the rose of Sharon,The lily of the valleys.”

Excerpt from CNN:

On Saturday, the day the leak was discovered, concentrations of the reactor byproduct iodine-131 in seawater next to the shaft was as 7.5 million times higher than the legal limit, according to sampling data taken by the utility.

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Those levels prompted Japanese authorities to start dumping nearly 10,000 tons of less-radioactive water into the Pacific on Monday night, largely to make room in a waste treatment reservoir for the No. 2 reactor coolant. The move enraged the country’s fishing industry and drew protests from neighboring South Korea, but Japan’s government called it an emergency move to prevent a worse discharge.

“They have to be injecting water,” said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at U.S. nuclear power plants. “They have to keep the core covered. And I can tell you you do not want to take that water out of containment right now, because it’s screaming with radioactivity and you have absolutely no capabilities whatsoever to process it.”

Japan is currently consulting with Russian authorities on whether a shipborne decontamination plant has the capability to handle the wastewater, the Japanese Foreign Ministry told CNN on Thursday. But Tokyo has not yet asked for the vessel to be brought into the fight, said Tomosaburo Esaki, an official with the ministry’s arms control and disarmament division.

The ship, the Suzeran (“Lily of the Valley”), can process up to 35 tons of radioactive waste a day and store about 800 tons. Japan built the vessel for Russia in the 1990s to help Moscow take aging nuclear submarines out of service.

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