JUST-IN: Huge Leak of Radioactive Water in Fukushima No 2. Containment Vessel Fractured!

Asahi: Tepco can’t find where huge amount of highly radioactive water is leaking at Reactor No. 2 — ‘Fractures’ in containment vessel suspected

The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is grappling to locate the source of a leak of highly radioactive water in the crippled No. 2 reactor [...]

A remote-controlled robot is now scouring the basement of the reactor building [...]

TEPCO suspects the radioactive water is leaking from fractures near the pressure suppression chamber [lower part of containment vessel].

It was the first detailed inspection near the chamber. [...]

A huge volume of highly radioactive water, used to cool down the fuel, has since been leaking from the reactor, TEPCO said.

[link to ajw.asahi.com]

CRAP!! This is BIG!

Much thanks for the pin LJS!

Yes - big time.

Wonder if this came from the big quake last week.

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Ocean still suffering from Fukushima fallout

Continuing leaks and contaminated sediment keep radiation levels high.

[...]

New data presented at a conference held on 12–13 November at the University of Tokyo show that levels of radioactivity in the sea around the plant remain stable, rather than falling as expected. Researchers believe that run-off from rivers, as well as continued leaks from the plant, may be partially to blame. But contaminated sediment and marine organisms also seem to be involved.

[...]

The Fukushima disaster caused by far the largest discharge of radioactivity into the ocean ever seen. A new model presented by scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts estimates that 16.2 petabecquerels (1015 becquerels) of radioactive caesium leaked from the plant — roughly the same amount that went into the atmosphere.

[...] in the region of the ocean near the plant, levels of caesium-137 have remained fixed at around 1,000 becquerels, a relatively high level compared to the natural background. Similarly, levels of radioactive caesium in bottom-dwelling fish remain pretty much unchanged more than 18 months after the accident.

Researchers at the conference are convinced that something is preventing the radiation levels from dropping. “There must be a source,” says Scott Fowler, an oceanographer at Stony Brook University in New York.

In fact, a fresh analysis by oceanographer Jota Kanda at the Tokyo University of Marine Science [estimates] the plant itself is leaking around 0.3 terabecquerels [0.3 trillion becquerels] per month [...]

[link to www.nature.com]

[link to enenews.com]

Title: Tokyo Bay Contamination More Serious than Fukushima Offing
Source: NHK
Date Aired: Jan 15, 2012
Date Published: Nov 4, 2012
Translated by: guardianofmiyagi

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I also wonder how bad this really is -- I mean what they are willing to admit to is bad enough, usually reality is far worse.

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As everyone has generally become blase about a triple reactor meltdown.. the facts remain.

There is no technology available to deal with it: as illustrated by the frequent impotent attempts to simply measure the levels of radiation.

Those responsible for putting the world in a nuclear holocaust situation like to say.. the solution is dilution.

This goes for information dissemination, as well.

Get it through your fucking heads.
They don't care.

We don't matter.