NHK
Top Story: New highly radioactive leak at Fukushima
Believed
to be draining into Pacific Ocean 200,000 Bq/liter of strontium and
other beta-ray emitters
2
October, 2013
Kyodo
News,
October 3, 2013: New
leak of stored toxic water found at Fukushima plant: TEPCO
[...] Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has found that
highly toxic water has leaked from another storage tank at the
crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex. [...] TEPCO, which
operates the Fukushima plant, said it detected high levels of
radioactive materials in water accumulated within barriers around a
group of storage tanks including the leaky one. [...]
NHK
WORLD,
Oct. 2, 2013: Contaminated
water detected in Fukushima
[...] Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have
detected highly-radioactive substances in water within a barrier
surrounding contaminated water storage tanks. [Tepco] says it found
200,000 becquerels per liter of beta-ray emitting substances,
including strontium, in the water. [...] The tank is located near the
Number-4 reactor. [...]
NHK
Newsline,
Oct. 2, 2013: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
have discovered another leak of highly radioactive water from a
storage tank. It is believed the water may have reached the ocean by
way of a drainage system.
Fukushima Nuclear Regulators Fail, Radioactive Tuna
Study, Decontaminaton Study
News
program discusses recent reports of nosebleeds in Japan, shows
ENENews article
Professor: International consortium of scientists needed to take this on (VIDEO)
Professor: International consortium of scientists needed to take this on (VIDEO)
Ahmed
Shihab-Eldin, Host:
I hate to bring up unverified reports — especially when they come
from just one or two sources — but as we try and wrap our heads
around what this means for the people living there […] we see
unverified reports of nosebleeds and other awful symptoms that are
being reported coming out of the area. […] Here’s the tweet and
they link to some video. I just want you to try and contextually for
us what the effects are, if not the nosebleeds.
Timothy
Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences at University of South
Carolina:
What’s required here is a concerted, open, internationally-based
consortium of scientists to really take this on, to develop a
methodology to keep track of these reports, keep track of what’s
going on. At the moment, there’s a few narrowly defined efforts to
track the workers and some of the children, but it’s really been
very, very narrow — and certainly not open to the international
community, unless permission is given. So, at the moment we’re not
learning a whole lot because there’s’ not a lot of data being
collected and the data that’s being collected is being held close
to the chest.
Watch the interview here
NHK:
‘Mystery’ radiation spike at Fukushima
- High levels of strontium in water that leaked into soil
- Many times above gov’t limit Overflow from Tepco pumping it in wrong container (PHOTO & VIDEO)
2
October, 2013
NHK
World News, October 2, 2013:
High radiation levels in rainwater overflow
[...] The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it has
detected high levels of radioactive substances in water that
overflowed from a storage container on Tuesday. [...] 4 tons of the
tainted water seeped into the ground before workers halted pumping.
[...] [Tepco] says it found 390 becquerels per liter of beta-ray
emitting substances, believed to be mostly strontium [...] much
higher than the government limit for releasing strontium-tainted
water into the ocean, which is set at 30 becquerels per liter. [...]
The officials explain the overflows occurred because the rainwater
was transferred into the wrong container. [...]
NHK
Newsline,
October 2, 2013: [...] They say workers at Fukushima Daiichi may have
been pumping it into the wrong container. [...] The crews may have
transferred it into the wrong tank leading to an overflow. [...] [The
level] was 13 times higher than the government’s safety limit for
releasing tainted water into the ocean. For some reason the level of
radiation in the rain water had doubled since measurements taken just
after the storm. Plant managers are looking into what caused the
spike.
Japan
Professor: ‘Really shocked’ they found contaminated fish by U.S.
coast
Urgent
situation to get samples, but stopped by Customs — They need to
understand just how critical this is (VIDEO)
Title:
Joint
Tuna Survey in Pacific
Source:
NHK Newsline
Date:
Sept. 30, 2013
At
1:15 in
Professor
Hideo Yamazaki, Kinki University:
We estimated concentration levels to be so low they wouldn’t be
detectable in the U.S., but the fact they found contaminated fish off
the coast of the U.S. really shocked us […]
NHK:
Researchers at Stanford University in April sent twenty 3-gram slices
of tuna to Japan, but Customs agents at Kansai International Airport
stopped them. They said proper documentation was missing. […]
Yamazaki:
This is an urgent situation.
We
need Customs officials to understand just how critical this is, and
facilitate the timely transportation of materials that need to be
studied.
NHK:
‘Mystery’ radiation spike at Fukushima
- High levels of strontium in water that leaked into soil
- Many times above gov’t limit
- Overflow from Tepco pumping it in wrong container (PHOTO & VIDEO)
2
October, 2013
NHK
World News, October 2, 2013:
High radiation levels in rainwater overflow
[...] The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it has
detected high levels of radioactive substances in water that
overflowed from a storage container on Tuesday. [...] 4 tons of the
tainted water seeped into the ground before workers halted pumping.
[...] [Tepco] says it found 390 becquerels per liter of beta-ray
emitting substances, believed to be mostly strontium [...] much
higher than the government limit for releasing strontium-tainted
water into the ocean, which is set at 30 becquerels per liter. [...]
The officials explain the overflows occurred because the rainwater
was transferred into the wrong container. [...]
NHK
Newsline,
October 2, 2013: [...] They say workers at Fukushima Daiichi may have
been pumping it into the wrong container. [...] The crews may have
transferred it into the wrong tank leading to an overflow. [...] [The
level] was 13 times higher than the government’s safety limit for
releasing tainted water into the ocean. For some reason the level of
radiation in the rain water had doubled since measurements taken just
after the storm. Plant managers are looking into what caused the
spike.
[Column]
Tepco’s contaminated water system started collapsing
2
October, 2013
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It’s
been only 2 years and 6 months. However, Fukushima decommissioning is
already falling apart.
It’s
starting from the contaminated water storage. As long as they keep
giving water to the reactors, it must increase. Now it’s already
beyond Tepco’s capacity.
Having
the third typhoon season after 311, the contaminated water system is
starting to be collapsed.
I
cannot even imagine what would happen, but I listed up the three
potential results. All of them are likely.
1.
Simultaneous leakages
The
cause of 300m3 leakage hasn’t been identified yet. They have 350
tanks of the same type in the plant. According to the makers, some of
them don’t even last for 5 years. However, there is no spare
storage. All we could do is just to pray.
Even
only for a Typhoon, Tepco required 2,100 workers. If those tanks (in
Plural) start leaking at once, they are not capable to treat them.
This is the water version of 311 Ⅱ.
2.
Lack of the storage
At
least 400m3 of contaminated groundwater flows to the plant. However,
Tepco doesn’t have a plan to construct the new welded tanks after
this October.
It
takes 2 months to build the tank, but it is estimated they will run
out of the storage this November ~ December. They can’t even find
the land to build the new tanks.
3.
Past radiation measurement readings might be all false
NRA
(Nuclear Regulation Authority) has been pointing out Tepco’s
radiation data doesn’t make sense. It shows no rational trends, and
Tepco has no logical explanation for that. NRA plans to send
inspectors to the analyzing site.
Whether
Tepco was intentionally trying to downplay the contamination level,
“a part of (I hope not ALL)” their past data may be thought to be
false based on the wrong means of analysis.
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