Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 4
 

The Mega-Float large floating structure is towed into Yokohama port for a final checkout in the water off Yokohama, near Tokyo, Thursday, April 7, 2011. It will be tugged towards the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant for collecting the plant’s highly radioactive water. (Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

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A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) personnel officer, wearing a protective suit, stands on a U.S. military barge before it is refilled with pure water while it approaches JMSDF support vessel Tokiwa near the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in this photo taken April 5 and released by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force April 6, 2011.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) support vessel Tokiwa supplies water to a U.S. military barge (bottom) near the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in this photo taken April 5 and released by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force April 6, 2011.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) personnel, wearing protective suits, spray water from the JMSDF destroyer Sawayuki at a U.S. military barge before it is refilled with pure water near the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in this photo taken April 4 and released by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force April 6, 2011.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) personnel, wearing protective suits, operate on JMSDF auxiliary multi-purpose support ship Hiuchi near the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in this photo taken April 5 and released by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force April 6, 2011.

A U.S. military barge carrying pure water (bottom) leaves the quay near Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to refill with pure water in Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo taken April 4 and released by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force on April 6, 2011.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel stand on a U.S. military barge carrying pure water (bottom) as it is being towed by a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force auxiliary multi-purpose support ship Hiuchi near the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo taken April 4 and released by Japan's Maritime Defense Force April 6, 2011.

A floating pontoon as a public fishing park is towed off a port in Shimizu, central Japan, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Shimizu city authority offered the pontoon, known as "Mega Float," to Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) to help store highly contaminated stagnant water at the compound of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

The Landysh (Lily of the valley or "Suzuran" in Japanese) floating radiation treatment plant is seen tied up at the mooring of the Zvezda (Star) plant in the settlement of Bolshoi Kamen (Big Stone), some 35 km (22 miles) west of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok, in this December 14, 2004 file photo. After seeking help from France and the United States, Japan has now asked Russia to send the floating radiation treatment plant "Suzuran", used to decommission Russian submarines in nearby Vladivostock, Interfax news agency reported. The "Suzuran", one of the world's largest liquid radioactive waste treatment plants, treats radioactive liquid with chemicals and stores it in a cement form. The "Suzuran" can process 35 cubic meters of liquid waste a day and 7,000 cubic meters a year.

The Landysh (Lily of the valley or "Suzuran" in Japanese) floating radiation treatment plant is seen tied up at the mooring of the Zvezda (Star) plant in the settlement of Bolshoi Kamen (Big Stone), some 35 km (22 miles) west of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok, in this July 10, 2009 file photo. The inscription on the side reads "Docking is prohibited".

A worker wearing a protective suit walks near the damaged pit at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 reactor in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan April 2, 2011 in this handout photo released by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on April 3, 2011.

A worker wearing a protective suit points at a cracked concrete pit near its No. 2 reactor of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefecture, April 2, 2011.

IAEA Description of filling crack in pit:

http://www.slideshare.net/iaea/7-april-tech-pres

Cracked pit location, above and below. (Photos from http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm)

[Photos below show this pit.]

In this Saturday, April 2, 2011 photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the maintenance pit of Unit 2 reactor, where highly radioactive water spilled into the sea through a crack, is photographed after pouring the concrete into it to keep from further leak, at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

A view of damaged pit at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 reactor in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan April 2, 2011 in this handout photo released by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on April 3, 2011.

A view of damaged pit at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 reactor in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan April 2, 2011 in this handout photo released by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on April 3, 2011.

A U.S. military barge carrying pure water (L) is towed by a Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force tugboat to the quay near the No.1 reactor of the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo taken on March 31 and released by Japan Defence Ministry April 1, 2011. Picture taken March 31, 2011.

[Building at left (and below) is the spent fuel Dry Storage Cask Facility. Thanks to RJA, Daily Kos, 7 April 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/964266/41072820]

Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force personnel wearing protective suits are seen aboard a tugboat towing a U.S. military barge carrying pure water towards the quay of the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo taken on March 31 and released by Japan Defence Ministry April 1, 2011. Picture taken March 31, 2011. [Building at top center is the spent fuel Dry Storage Cask Facility, thanks to RJA, Daily Kos, 7 April 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/964266/41072820]

A U.S. military barge sails in the Tokyo bay as it heads to the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant damaged by the March 11 tsunami triggered by earthquake, off Tokyo, Thursday March 31, 2011.

In this Thursday, March 24, 2011, photo available Friday, April 1, 2011, inside of the Unit 4 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. Steam comes out of debris by a crane device, in green, at the unit.

An overview shows smoke rising from the interior of reactor No. 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex in this still image taken from a March 24, 2011 handout video released on April 1, 2011.