Use tugboats to pump seawater onto the reactor cores
I have searched without success to try to find a way to contact the TEPCO about an idea for assisting with cooling the reactors. If you know of a way to contact someone at TEPCO who might listen, please let me know.
The idea is this:
Modern tugboats use thrusters, basically huge water pumps. A large tugboat could be moored tightly to the quayside, and a rigid pipeline welded up to carry seawater to the reactor containment area.
Since the power-plants of the tugboats are very strong and self-contained, and since they're boats and not likely to have been damaged if they survived the tsunami, I feel this is a viable solution to quickly move a vast amount of cooling water onto the reactors. Multiple tugboats could feed multiple pipelines as quickly as they could be assembled.
Please pass this idea to anyone who might benefit from hearing it.
The idea is this:
Modern tugboats use thrusters, basically huge water pumps. A large tugboat could be moored tightly to the quayside, and a rigid pipeline welded up to carry seawater to the reactor containment area.
Since the power-plants of the tugboats are very strong and self-contained, and since they're boats and not likely to have been damaged if they survived the tsunami, I feel this is a viable solution to quickly move a vast amount of cooling water onto the reactors. Multiple tugboats could feed multiple pipelines as quickly as they could be assembled.
Please pass this idea to anyone who might benefit from hearing it.