Just to get an idea of the amount of water used by Tepco in the past 3 months to try to cool the reactors and spent fuel pools, I decided to look at the numbers, and they are monumental. Unit 1 is as of June 5 injected with water at the rate of 5m3/hr, unit 2 at 5 m3/h, and unit 3 at 11.5 m3/h (these numbers are substantially lower than they have been and go up and down, and we don't have a rate of water spraying of the spent fuel pools, so the number will be lower than the actual ft3 in three months.
Here is the math 5 +5 +11.5 = 21.5m3/h X 24 hours/day (3 X 30 days) = 46, 440 m3/3 months now for the Americans:
46,440 m3 = 1,640,013 ft3 and the actual number is at least 3 times that number. for example my living room is 17 X 13 X 9 = 1989 ft3 they filled up my living room at least 825 times.
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