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Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% | |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 04:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% Vice Governor: “Emergency situation” at Fukushima; Tepco has increased the risk of further leaks; Gov’t needs to take over — NHK: Officials make “emergency visit” to damaged nuclear plant (VIDEOS) NHK, August 6, 2013: Prefectural monitors inspect water leak site [...] Officials appointed by the Fukushima government have made an emergency visit to the damaged nuclear plant [...] They’re unimpressed by what they found. [...] [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] NHK, August 6, 2013: Fukushima asks govt. to take steps to stop leaks [...] The vice governor of Fukushima Prefecture has asked the government to take the lead in handling the matter and stop the leakage. Masao Uchibori told an official from the Nuclear Regulation Authority that some of Tepco’s measures have increased the risk of further leaks […] The measures aren’t enough to deal with an emergency situation. [...] [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] [link to enenews.com] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 04:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% BBC: Water crisis at Fukushima has only just begun — “Plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer” — It’s rapidly being overwhelmed deep beneath ground (VIDEO) Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, Tokyo: [...] Engineers are now facing a new emergency. The Fukushima plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer. Deep beneath the ground, the site is rapidly being overwhelmed by water. [...] It’s now so high, the water will soon reach the surface. Then it will start flowing over-ground into the sea. [...] Even if the government does step in, it’s not clear what it could do. The only other solution is to pump out the contaminated groundwater and put it in storage tanks. [...] Most of them are already filled up. At least 400 tons of new water pours into the site every day. It’s going to continue for years and years. Fukushima’s water crisis has only just begun. [link to www.bbc.co.uk] [link to enenews.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 44700928  Australia08/06/2013 04:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% Asahi: Radioactive contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater — Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% — Tepco says it doesn’t know why levels spiked (VIDEO) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37864819 NHK, Aug. 6, 2013: [...] on Monday, TEPCO detected high levels of radioactive substances in groundwater collected at a monitoring well close to the turbine building of the No. 2 reactor where highly radioactive water accumulated in its basement. The level of radioactive cesium was 14 times higher [960 Bq/L vs 65 Bq/L] than the reading logged last Wednesday. Strontium and other radioactive materials that emit beta rays were 46 times higher [56,000 Bq/L vs 1,200 Bq/L]. TEPCO officials say they do not know the cause for the spikes, and they will further look into how contaminated water has spread and what effects it has brought. Asahi Shimbun, August 6, 2013: Radioactivity levels soared 47-fold over just five days in groundwater from a monitoring well on the ocean side of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the plant operator said Aug. 5. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said 56,000 becquerels of radioactive substances, including strontium, were detected per liter of groundwater sampled on Aug. 5 in the “No. 1-5” monitoring well, which is adjacent to the turbine building for the No. 1 reactor. The previous measurement for the well water was made on July 31. [...] Tepco Press Release, Aug. 5, 2013: [...] the latest situation concerning the detection of high densities of Tritium and Strontium in the observation hole at the east side of the Unit 1-4 Turbine Buildings [...] Groundwater observation hole No. 1-5 (west of the groundwater observation hole No.1-3) * Aug. 5, 2013: Cesium-134 @ 310 Bq/L; Cesium-137 @ 650 Bq/L; All-β @ 56,000 Bq/L * July 31, 2013: Cesium-134 @ 21 Bq/L; Cesium-137 @ 44 Bq/L; All-β @ 1,200 Bq/L [link to enenews.com] [link to www.youtube.com] good |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21410823 United States08/06/2013 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% The fuel has hit the water table. They have known that this was a distinct possibility since June 2011 or maybe before. It's done, they are cooked and there isn't a damn thing to be done. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1152851 United States08/06/2013 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% [link to www.bbc.co.uk] WOW TALK ABOUT SANITIZED FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.. ANYONE WOULD THINK THEY COULD JUST FORGET ABOUT IT STILL. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1440618 Canada08/06/2013 04:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% Well ultimately this will even contaminate TPTB that have so screwed up the world, so, GOOD! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5228451 Well ultimately this will even contaminate TPTB that have so screwed up the world, so, GOOD! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5228451 Dude they have super stocked underground bunkers! They don't give a fuck. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 04:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% 7/27/2013 WSJ: Extreme contamination found at Fukushima plant — Cesium over 2 billion Bq/liter; Millions of times above limit — Tepco ‘trying’ to stop it leaking into ocean — ‘Probably’ from melted reactor core Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37864819 Levels Recorded Haven’t Been Seen Since Soon After 2011 Disaster Extremely high concentrations of radiation have been detected in water from near one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, [Tepco] said Saturday. [...] The radiation is millions of times higher than Japan’s acceptable limit under normal circumstances. Radiation of 750 million becquerels a liter of cesium-134 and 1.6 billion becquerels a liter of cesium-137 was recorded, Tepco said. [...] In April 2011 a combined 1.8 billion becquerels was recorded. [...] The sample came from a trench near the No. 2 reactor turbine building, the utility said. [...] Tepco is searching for the water source. It is probably from one of the damaged reactor cores. It is trying to stop the water leaking into the sea, it said. [...] [link to online.wsj.com] [link to enenews.com] Thread: Extreme contamination found at Fukushima plant - Cesium over 2 BILLION Bq/liter; MILLIONS of times above limit |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 04:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% 7/23/2013 Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear: Well, the best I can come up with for what’s happening in recent days and weeks at Fukushima Daiichi is hemorrhaging of radioactivity. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37864819 And the scariest part of all is that they don’t know where it’s coming from. But ultimately it’s coming from 3 melted down atomic reactor cores and severely damaged, if not entirely destroyed, radiological containment structures. That’s where it’s ultimately coming from. But why it’s getting out now in such a hurry all of a sudden is the big mystery. [link to enenews.com] [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Thread: Fukushima plant is hemorrhaging radioactivity — “Scariest part of all is they don’t know where it’s coming from” |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 05:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% Good thing I'm only 2800 fucking miles away, across open water even! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42984128 Looks like this'll be my last season up here... [link to www.youtube.com] |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 05:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% Good thing I'm only 2800 fucking miles away, across open water even! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42984128 Looks like this'll be my last season up here... [link to www.youtube.com] at 3:40 for starters Japan allows for 100 Bq per kg of radioactive cesium in food beyond that it's considered unfit for human concumption. Incredibly in the US the standard is 1,200 bq per kg. So we easily can be importing contaminated food from Japan. And the ocean. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 44420998  Germany08/06/2013 05:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% groundwater in fukushima is a main node for the entire japanese peninsula. 2 more years and they are all dead! this was planned. a terror attack by china. tepco is a chinese spy organisation letting this happen. sound plausible? truth or fiction? |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 05:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% [...] as [Tepco] prepares this week to start work on a new set of measures that would ring off and cap the area where the most highly contaminated water has been found, some experts and regulators are saying that the battle to completely contain radioactivity to the site of one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents may be a losing one. [...] It’s preparing to extend the underground hardened-earth barrier in a ring around the most heavily contaminated section of coastline, in hopes of heading groundwater off before it can flood in. Tepco is also proposing to cap that ringed section with gravel and asphalt, so nothing gets out. The operator is hoping to get an initial ring of hardened ground done by October. [...] But there’s a risk to changing the flow of groundwater in the ways that Tepco is considering, said Tatsuya Shinkawa, nuclear accident response director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, at a news conference last month. The water could pool dangerously underground, softening the earth and potentially toppling the reactor buildings, he said. [...] [link to enenews.com] [link to enenews.com] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 37864819 United States08/06/2013 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% ^^ [link to online.wsj.com] ^^ |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 44707737 United States08/06/2013 06:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% [link to www.bbc.co.uk] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1152851 WOW TALK ABOUT SANITIZED FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.. ANYONE WOULD THINK THEY COULD JUST FORGET ABOUT IT STILL. rules for bbc/msm 1. don't mention the word "meltdown" 2. don't mention the phrase "china syndrome" 3. don't mention deaths or any projected death numbers 4. don't mention the word "cancer" 5. don't mention the word " uranium" 6. don't mention the word "plutonium" 7. don't mention the word "mox fuel" 8 don't mention the spent fuel, the curium cores, or the contamination of seafood in the pacific. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 44708702 United States08/06/2013 06:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater - Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% BBC: Water crisis at Fukushima has only just begun — “Plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer” — It’s rapidly being overwhelmed deep beneath ground (VIDEO) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37864819 Who the fuck builds a nuclear power planet above an underground aquifer? Seriously, W.T.F? Are we living on Planet Retard or what? |
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