Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has seen a rise in the level of radioactive tritium!!!

TV: Groundwater shows massive spike in radioactive material at Fukushima plant — Strontium-90 up over 10,000% in past few months — Tepco apologizes

Xinhua: Very high radioactivity levels were detected in groundwater from an observation well at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Wednesday. [...] The observation well was set up on the Pacific side of the plant’s No. 2 reactor turbine building last December to find out the reasons why radioactivity levels in seawater near the plant remained high. The company said the sampled water could be from the contaminated water that seeped into the ground.

Reuters: Testing of groundwater showed the reading for strontium-90 increased from 8.6 becquerels to 1,000 becquerels per litre between Dec. 8, 2012 and May 24

BBC News: High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says. [...] Strontium-90 is formed as a by-product of nuclear fission. Tests showed that levels of strontium in groundwater at the Fukushima plant had increased 100-fold since the end of last year, Toshihiko Fukuda, a Tepco official, told media.

NHK: Tokyo Electric has again drawn criticism for a delay in revealing the latest incident. Workers took a sample of the groundwater on May 24th. [...] They apologized for the delay.

NHK: [Fukushima] prefecture summoned the utility’s managing director, Akio Komori, to the prefectural government office on Wednesday. Komori apologized for the trouble


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Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission with a half-life of 28.8 years.

Doesn't sound like "controlled-shutdown" with no molten corium, to me.

Sounds more like the corium is mixing with the cooling water and the water table at the bottom of a deep hole, and exiting to the sea.

Still active and unstable, me thinks.

Level of radioactive tritium rising in harbor at Fukushima plant

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has seen a rise in the level of radioactive tritium in seawater within the harbor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

A sample collected Friday contained around 1,100 becquerels of tritium per liter, the highest level detected in seawater since the nuclear crisis at the plant started in March 2011, the utility said Monday.

An official of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said groundwater containing radioactive substances may be seeping into the harbor from the plant site [...]

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Doesn't sound like "controlled-shutdown" with no molten corium, to me.

Sounds more like the corium is mixing with the cooling water and the water table at the bottom of a deep hole, and exiting to the sea.

Still active and unstable, me thinks.

Can't be, as explained!

When you have a active Coria (in the process of Fission)
you would find Iodine-131 but this is missing,
so it can't be!

I still think that this are the final parts of the Melt-Down!

The Half-Life of Tritium is ca. 50 Days
and the Melt-Down was ca. 8XX days ago!

Higher seaborne tritium levels outside Fukushima plant suggest leaks not plugged
Tritium, a naturally existing radioisotope of hydrogen, is generated in coolant water for nuclear reactors. Unlike radioactive cesium, tritium, which exists in the form of water, is difficult to remove by way of absorption. Tritium, once ingested, flushes out of the human body relatively quickly.

Miniscule amounts of tritium are released into the environment during the normal course of operating a nuclear reactor.
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The utility said the radioactive water likely entered the ground immediately after the nuclear crisis began, and later mixed with groundwater and flowed into the well.
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you people have been going on about this shit for years and i still ain't got no dead nips.

@ ehecatl,

Tepco released the whole Measurements on their Web-Site
(incl. Caesium and Friends)
[link to www.tepco.co.jp]

And the Picture you are using is from the Tsunami
and have nothing to do with the release of Radioactive Materials!