. . DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : COUNTRIES: JAPAN :ENERGY: NUCLEAR ENERGY: Japan's Nuclear Workers Try to Trace Leak, Dump Radioactive Water
. . Japan's Nuclear Workers Try to Trace Leak, Dump Radioactive Water April 4, 2011, 5:54 a.m. Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/ la-fgw-japan-nuclear-20110405,0,2720438.story
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/3gxkl24 . .TOKYO Workers used a milky bathwater dye Monday as they frantically tried to trace the path of radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant.
.The crack in a maintenance pit discovered over the weekend was the latest confirmation that radioactivity continues to spill into the environment. The leak is a symptom of the primary difficulty at the Fukushima Daiichi complex: Radioactive water is pooling around the plant and preventing workers from powering up cooling systems needed to stabilize dangerously vulnerable fuel rods.
.The plant operators also deliberately dumped 10,000 tons of tainted water -- measuring about 500 times above the legal limit for radioactivity -- into the ocean Monday to make space at a storage site for water that is even more highly radioactive.
.Engineers have turned to a host of improvised and sometimes bizarre methods to tame the nuclear plant after it was crippled in Japan's magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami on March 11.
.Efforts over the weekend to clog the leak with a special polymer, sawdust and even shredded newspapers failed to halt the flow at a cracked concrete maintenance pit near the shoreline. The water in that leak contains radioactive iodine at rates 10,000 times the legal limit.
.Suspecting they might be targeting the wrong channel to the pit, workers tried to confirm the leak's pathway by dumping several pounds of milky bath salts into the system, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday.
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