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Workers: There was a collapse at plant due to typhoon
Specific Tweets translated by Google:
Fukushima Diary,
21 October, 2013
Related to this article.. All β density of groundwater jumped up by 6557 times after the Typhoon / 400,000,000 Bq/m3 highest ever [URL]
- Not revealed by Tepco
- Worry that upcoming storm to cause more damage
21
October, 2013
Recent
tweets from Fukushima Daiichi workers with summary translation
by Fukushima
Diary:
Two Fukushima workers commented on Twitter that the previous Typhoon Wipha caused a slope in Fukushima plant area to collapse. The slope faces the main street, and the earth and sand blockaded the street. Also, there was a part to have had a subsidence. [...] The worker added there are more slopes in the area and they may collapse due to the next Typhoon [...]
Specific Tweets translated by Google:
- @sunnysunnynismo, Oct. 19, 2013: Pattern collapse due to typhoon at the Fukushima Daiichi premises has not been press releases
- @Happy11311, Oct. 19, 2013: Uh-oh? I did not press! It was learned for the first time to see tweets of Sunny’s. I’ve had also place the road much would have been blocked, was depressed (> _ <) after law could face there had collapsed …. Next week, I wonder if the public? Typhoon No. 27 is also a worry about next week, and slope is likely to collapse still, and I wonder … I’m worried about.
- @Happy11311, Oct. 19, 2013: [...] I think restoration work is dangerous’ s rain today where it left mudslides after, that it is not doing, but disciple no choice but to pray that the damage is not expanded
Fukushima plant area had collapse and subsidence due to the last Typhoon / No press release
Fukushima Diary,
21 October, 2013
Related to this article.. All β density of groundwater jumped up by 6557 times after the Typhoon / 400,000,000 Bq/m3 highest ever [URL]
Two
Fukushima workers commented on Twitter that the previous Typhoon
“WIPHA” caused a slope in Fukushima plant area to collapse.
The
slope faces the main street, and the earth and sand blockaded the
street. Also, there was a part to have had a subsidence.
Those
workers are surprised because there was no press release from Tepco
about this.
The
worker added there are more slopes in the area and they may collapse
due to the next Typhoon that may hit eastern Japan this weekend.
LA
Times: “Plutonium having melted and dropping somewhere” is
suspected to be causing contamination of underground water at
Fukushima - Japan
nuclear professor
21
October, 2013
Los
Angeles Times,
October 20, 2013: [...] 300 tons of radioactive wastewater was
pouring into the ocean each day from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant [Tepco
now says 400 tons of radioactive groundwater is flowing into the
Pacific every day -Japan
Times].
It’s unclear how long the massive volume has been leaking from
underneath the damaged reactors [...] “It is unclear how the
underground water is being contaminated,” [Kenji Araki, a nuclear
engineering guest professor at the Fukushima National College of
Technology] said, speculating that it’s the result of plutonium
near the reactor core having melted and dropping somewhere inside the
reactor. Pinpointing leaks is very difficult, Araki said. […]
Arab
News,
Oct. 16, 2013: Nadeem
Qureshi, M.I.T.-trained engineer:
“Three hundred tons [400
tons, see above]
of toxic highly radioactive water from the site continues to leak
into the Pacific Ocean every day. The plant operator — Tokyo
Electric Power Company — admitted recently that it has “lost
control of Fukushima”. [...] The Fukushima incident is emblematic
of the problem with nuclear power. A serious accident results in the
release of radiation into the environment. And this is the good news.
The real problem is that nuclear fuel and waste products generated in
nuclear reactors remain radioactive from 10,000 to tens of millions
of years. For example the half life — a measure of the rate of
natural decay of radioactive materials — of the waste product
Plutonium 239 is 24,000 years, and that of Neptunium 237 is two
million years. When these waste products are released into the
environment in an accident they are there to stay.”
Powerful
Typhoon Francisco on track for Fukushima
- Typhoon Lekima develops in Pacific
- Concern storms may collide, “It’s called the Fujiwara effect”
- Both could hit east coast of Japan later in week
21
October, 2013
Mainichi,
Oct. 21, 2013: Another powerful typhoon [...] is taking a similar
course to that of Typhoon Wipha, which caused massive damage to
Oshima Island and other parts of the Kanto region around Tokyo. [...]
The Meteorological Agency is urging the public to pay close attention
to information released on the typhoon.
Reuters,
Oct. 21, 2013: Super typhoon Francisco is forecast to strike Japan as
a tropical storm at about 09:00 GMT on 25 October. [...] Francisco is
expected to bring 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of
around 101 km/h (63 mph). Wind gusts in the area may be considerably
higher. [...]
Arirang
News,
Oct. 21, 2013: There looks to be two tropical storms, Francisco and
Lekima, which are expected to hit the east coast of Japan around
Thursday. As the storm may indirectly affect Korea’s weather, our
viewers in Korea should check back in for updates as the week
progresses.
Korea
Times,
Oct. 21, 2013: [...] According to the Korea Meteorological
Administration (KMA) though, Typhoons Francisco and Lekima will most
likely hit Japan [...] Typhoon Francisco [...] packs winds gusts over
169 kilometers an hour. The agency expected that it will head north,
but may veer to the East Sea, making landfall near Tokyo. [...]
Typhoon Lekima was detected five days later. Though it was
small-sized and weak, the KMA expected it may pick up strength and
develop into a severe tropical storm (STS). [...] The KMA [...] said
the two typhoons could meet. “When two or more typhoons collide,
they affect each other’s path and strength. It’s called the
Fujiwara effect,” said weather forecaster Hur Jin-ho. “Though we
are expecting that they are moving along their own paths, there still
is the possibility that the two could change course,” he said.
[...]
Japan
Times: “Plague of radioactive water” from Fukushima
- Will need monitoring for next 100 years, maybe even longer
- WSJ: Alarm over recent Tepco alert, could be quite bad; Yttrium at 200,000 Bq/liter in groundwater
21
October, 2013
WSJ,
Oct. 21, 2013: In an alarming Friday-morning alert, the operator of
the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant said that
radiation levels on Oct. 17 had spiked some 6,500 times higher
overnight, at a well [...] It’s a lot harder to figure out just how
bad that creeping contamination is, however. JRT’s preliminary
answer: It could be quite bad [...] Tepco tests water [...] using a
quick method that measures something it calls “zen-beta’’ in
Japanese – or “all-beta’’ in English. [...] Friday’s alert
said that the zen-beta in the contaminated well was 400,000 Bq per
liter – a record-high measurement. [...] it turns out that none of
it is tritium, since the type of quick measurement used for the
beta-radiation check isn’t sensitive enough to pick up tritium,
says a Tepco spokesman. What’s more, Tepco has found that the
zen-beta from the kind of water that was stored in the leaky tank is
generally half from strontium-90 and half from a radioactive form of
an element called yttrium, which is formed from strontium-90 in the
process of nuclear decay. That would suggest there could be 200,000
Bq per liter of strontium-90 in the well – more than 6,600 times
the allowed emission limit.
The
Japan Times,
Oct. 20, 2013: The plague of radioactive water at the wrecked
Fukushima No. 1 power plant has renewed fears both in Japan and
abroad over the contamination of seafood and the habitat it comes
from. The government is trying to reassure consumers that all fish
that find their way to market are safe [...] [Hideo Yamazaki of Kinki
University] warned that Japan will need to keep monitoring various
radioactive materials from Fukushima No. 1 for 100 years — and
possibly even longer — as work to scrap the four damaged reactors
stretches on for decades.
Rainwater
Problem Hits Japan’s Closed Nuclear Plant
The
operator of Japan’s wrecked nuclear plant said Monday that
rainwater from a weekend storm became contaminated as it collected
behind barriers meant to stop radiation leaks. The toxic water
overflowed those barriers at several locations, with some of it
possibly spilling into the Pacific Ocean.
21
October, 2013
It
was the latest in a litany of lapses and aggravations for the
problem-plagued cleanup of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
The
operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, said water from
heavy rain Sunday had accumulated behind foot-high concrete walls
that encircle clusters of storage tanks. Tepco built those barriers
to contain spills from the storage tanks, a problem that has led to
intense public criticism of the company.
However,
on Sunday the barriers acted as dams to trap the rainwater into
unintended ponds. Water levels in 11 of those ponds rose high enough
to spill over the barriers, Tepco said. It said some of the spilled
water may have flowed down a drainage ditch into the Pacific outside
the plant’s artificial harbor.
After
the rain, Tepco said it tested water in the ponds that overflowed and
found that a half-dozen were contaminated with levels of radioactive
strontium-90 above the limit of 10 becquerels per liter set by
regulators for releasing water into the sea. Radiation levels at the
most contaminated site were 71 times that limit, Tepco said.
Releases
of strontium are particularly worrisome because it can collect in
human bones and possibly cause leukemia, experts say. Tepco did not
say where the strontium had originated, though the most likely
candidate appeared to be radioactive particles scattered on the
ground, possibly by the explosions that followed the triple meltdown
in March 2011.
Another
puzzle was why the rainfall Sunday, which the Japan Meteorological
Agency measured at about four inches, was enough to overwhelm the
foot-high barriers. On Monday, Tepco offered one possible
explanation, saying the barriers had already trapped water during a
typhoon that swept through eastern Japan last week.
Tepco
has installed pumps designed to drain rainwater into tanks, where it
is tested for radiation before it is released into the sea. However,
the pumps appeared unable to cope with the large amounts of rain
dumped by the typhoon, so when the rain struck Sunday, water levels
were still up to nine inches deep in some spots, Tepco said.
Latest on Fukushima... 18 Oct, 2013
Thom
Hartmann talks with Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watch Dog-Beyond
Nuclear
Website:
www.beyondnuclear.org
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