Emergency at Fukushima after typhoon

So much for the “breeze”. 

Vongfong obviously brought more moisture than damaging wind. A predictable disaster for Fukushima Dai'ichi

Agency: Fukushima workers urgently trying “to prevent groundwater from leaking into ocean”

• Levels of nuclear waste surge next to sea 
• Strontium-90 shatters previous record by over 5 Billion Bq/m3 Now 25 million times EPA limite

ENENews,

15 October, 2014

Jiji Press, Oct. 14, 2014: Cesium Level Rises in TEPCO Plant Well — [TEPCO] on Tuesday reported

a sharp rise in cesium levels in water collected from an observation well near the sea [on] Monday [with] a record 251,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter, 3.7 times the cesium level… [last] Thursday… Monday’s reading was the highest level… from any of these wells… The samples in question also contained 7.8 million becquerels of beta particle-emitting radioactive substances, such as strontium-90, per liter, also a 3.7-fold increase.

ITAR-TASS (Russian News Agency), Oct. 14, 2014 (emphasis added): Highest radiation in ground water at Japan’s NPP after nuclear disaster… The highest radiation level was registered in subsoil water taken from a technical well at 1st and 2nd power units at Fukushima-1.., [TEPCO] said on Tuesday. The underground water sample was taken on October 13… Company’s experts said that a surge in radiation was linked with the impact of a typhoon raging in the locality, when heavy rain triggered spread of radiation-contaminated particles in underground water. Now nuclear plant’s specialists are pumping out ground water urgently to prevent it from leaking into the ocean.

Kyodo News, Oct 14, 2014 (Google translation): … record high values of cesium, the influence of the typhoon in Fukushima first nuclear power plant… from the water of the well in the seawall of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Units 1 and 2 [cesium is 251,000] becquerels per liter… manganese 54 is… 700… cobalt 60 [is 3,600]… [TEPCO] found under the influence of typhoon No. 18 earlier this month, contaminated water that has accumulated in the piping has been spreading. Both record high values in groundwater…

Note that the most recent stontium-90 test results for well No. 1-6 published by Tepco on Oct. 1 show that levels of Sr-90 are virtually equal to Gross Beta. This means the Oct. 13 Sr-90 levels are near 7,800,000 Bq/L — 26,000,000 times the EPA limit for Sr-90 in water (0.3 Bq/L).

See also: Officials: Typhoon caused significant increase in radioactive releases from Fukushima — Record levels of ‘highly toxic’ nuclear material found in ground outside reactor

“Typhoon exited Japan over Fukushima”

• Half foot of rain recorded around nuclear plant
• Fukushima Worker: There’s no choice but to pray more radioactive material does not spread into ocean… That’s the reality of the situation we are facing

ENENews,

15 October, 2014

Yomiuri Shimbun, Oct. 14, 2014: The typhoon exited over Fukushima Prefecture in the early hours of Tuesday… according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

AFP, Oct. 14, 2014: Heavy rain hit the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the northeastern Pacific coast, “but we have not received any reports of damage or abnormality”, said a spokesman with Tokyo Electric Power…

Rainfall at the nearest monitoring location to Fukushima Daiichi was 138.5 mm (5.5 inches) over the 24-hour period. Early in the morning of October 14 the precipitation rate reached 36 mm per hour.

Atmospheric pressure at the center of the storm dropped to 980mb while moving over Fukushima, which is the same pressure as when it first made landfall on Japan’s main island of Honshu. According to Japan officials, “The lower the air pressure, the stronger the wind and rain tend to become.” Also, the center of the storm appeared to become more organized as it passed Fukushima, compared to the previous map which showed the eye had lost symmetry.

Fukushima worker @Happy11311, Oct. 14, 2014 (Google translation): Rain… becoming stronger. If you continue down this state, the total rainfall may become more than No. 18 last week. Disciples do nothing but pray tomorrow morning, and from us too through 1F without incident.

Fukushima worker @Happy11311, Oct. 14, 2014 (Google translation): … After three and a half years… heavy rain and typhoon comes… there is no choice but pray contamination do not diffuse into the sea… It’s the reality of the nuclear accident.

Report after last week’s Typhoon Phanfone: Japan Times: ‘Records shattered’ at Fukushima — Radiation levels surge after typhoon — Tepco “doesn’t know why” this is happening

Thank heavens for ITAT-TASS

Highest radiation in ground water at Japan’s NPP after nuclear disaster

The caesium isotope content has made 251,000 Becquerel (Bq) per liter in subsoil water taken from a technical well at 1st and 2nd power units at Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant

ITAR-TASS,

14 October, 2014

TOKYO, October 14. /TASS/. The highest radiation level was registered in subsoil water taken from a technical well at 1st and 2nd power units at Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant after the nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company operating the nuclear plant said on Tuesday. The underground water sample was taken on October 13.

The caesium isotope content has made 251,000 Becquerel (Bq) per liter. Japan has set the highest permissible level of these elements for water split in the ocean at 30 Bq.

Company’s experts said that a surge in radiation was linked with the impact of a typhoon raging in the locality, when heavy rain triggered spread of radiation-contaminated particles in underground water. Now nuclear plant’s specialists are pumping out ground water urgently to prevent it from leaking into the ocean.

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