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New radioactive hotspots suggest more leaks at Fukushima
New radioactive hotspots suggest more leaks at Fukushima
Several
new hotspots reading potentially lethal doses of radiation have been
detected near the tanks storing the radioactive water, forcing the
operator to admit there might be even more leaks at the crippled
Fukushima nuclear power plant.
RT,
1
September, 2013
The
high radiation readings were detected during the daily inspection on
Saturday near three water tanks and one pipe stretched between the
tanks and the plant, Kyodo news agency reported.
Traces
of water leak measuring 230 millisieverts per hour were found below
the pipe, the agency added. Meanwhile, Jiji news reported a reading
of 1,800 millisieverts per hour was near one of the tanks, while the
other reported readings measured between 70 and 230 millisieverts.
Tokyo
Electric Power Co has admitted the peaking radiation readings, but
claimed that none of the containers showed any visible fall in their
water levels, according to a statement cited in Japanese media.
Just
last week the plant operator disclosed that at least one of the 1,060
temporary tanks used to store highly contaminated water sprang a leak
discharging as much as 300 tons of radioactive liquid containing
large amounts of cesium.
Following
the incident Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority raised the rating
of the water leak to Level 3 – a "serious incident" on an
international scale of radioactivity from the previously assigned
Level 1, an “anomaly.”
The
International Atomic Energy Agency lashed out at TEPCO for ignoring
their calls for stepping up patrolling efforts at the plant, accusing
TEPCO of being slow in measuring the levels of radioactive elements
that have flowed out of the station, as well as publishing its data.
“Unfortunately,
TEPCO waited until a severe emergency arose to finally report how bad
things really are,” nuclear accident researcher Christina Consolo
told RT earlier. “Historically, everything TEPCO says always turns
out to be much worse than they initially admit.”
While
Japanese government promised it would supervise the clean-up at the
plant from then on, most experts say that it could still take between
four decades and a century to eliminate the impact of the Fukushima
disaster.
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