"Diapers" fail to stop flow of severely radioactive water into the ocean

Kyodo News has reported that the latest effort to block the discharge of highly contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's reactor unit number 2 -- addition of water-absorbing polymers used in baby diapers -- has failed. So has the attempt to plug the crack in a flooded trench on the edge of the ocean by using saw dust, shredded newspapers, and concrete. The radioactive water is believed to be coming from damaged reactor unit 2. The cracked pit is reported to contain water contaminated with radioactive Iodine-131 at 10,000 times legal limits, which has been gushing uncontrollably into the ocean for days on end, undoubtedly impacting sea food supplies.