#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: "Tracer" Was Bath Salt

The bath salt that Japanese people use is the powder that contain the same materials that the water at Japan's famous onsen (hot springs) has. You pour a packet of such powder in your hot bath, and your bath time becomes onsen time!

The powder, when dissolved in water, is milky white, milky blue, milky pink.

That's why they said the tracer was "milky white".

Murphy, paging Murphy urgently...

From the press release by Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) at 8:00AM JST, April 4 (in Japanese; the last English update was April 2):

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・トレーサー（入浴剤）約13kgを海水配管トレンチ立坑から投入（4月4日7:08から7:11）。

Reactor 2
Tracer (bath salt) 13 kilograms poured into the vertical shaft of the seawater pipe trench (from 7:08 to 7:11, April 4)

I'm just so shocked. Shocked. So shocked that I'm laughing hysterically.

There are US military, the JDF, Marine Safety Agency, who are close by, who have and use tracer all the time. You can buy one of these for less than $20.

And what does TEPCO do, under the guidance of NISA? Use bath salt.

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