Greg Warnick, NRC Chief Reqxtor Inspector just shares that in late July inspectors found several issues.
Issue 1) during cleaning process on outside of transport cask a cleaning cloth was dropped into spend fuel pool.
2) failure to enter an issue about the staining of canister 31
3) @holtecintl worker walked under canister transporter heavy machinery. Required more than 4 hours of “safety time out”. The shield plate of transporter was closed for 4 hrs+ preventing air flow cooling.
At 4 hours workers partially opened shield plate.
Not proper procedure.
4) monitors were not on during both insert and removal of canisters at interim spent fuel storage installation on-site.
The NRC also found water intrusion in the unloaded canisters stored on-site.
They closed the presentation by saying these issues do not have safety significance and that they were not “risk significant”.
🔬 Concerns rise as the tritium & carbon-14 in Fukushima's wastewater carries the potential to impact multiple generations while spreading throughout the ocean via currents & marine life, marking it as both intergenerational and transboundary. 🌊🐟 #FukushimaWaste"
"Chemically, tritium has a half-life of 12.3 years, carbon 14 5730 years...This release is supposed to go on for over 30 years, and that's intergenerational, meaning it's my generation, my daughter's generation and any grandkids that might come along."
- Bob H. Richmond, Ph. D.
"In addition, it's what we call trans boundary, meaning the water is not going to stay in Japan's coastal waters. It will make its way across through both ocean currents and through fish."
- Bob H. Richmond, Ph. D.
Director of Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii