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General Category => World News => Topic started by: DCPatriot on August 11, 2013, 09:40:49 pm
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Radioactive water overruns Fukushima barrier - TEPCO
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An aerial view shows workers wearing protective suits and masks work at a construction site (C) of the shore barrier to stop radioactive water from leaking into the sea at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on August 9, 2013. (Reuters/Kyodo)
Contaminated groundwater accumulating under the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has risen 60cm above the protective barrier, and is now freely leaking into the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator TEPCO has admitted.
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The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which is responsible for decommissioning the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, on Saturday said the protective barriers that were installed to prevent the flow of toxic water into the ocean are no longer coping with the groundwater levels, Itar-Tass reports.
The contaminated groundwater, which mixes with radioactive leaks seeping out of the plant, has already risen to 60cm above the barriers – the fact which TEPCO calls a major cause of the massive daily leak of toxic substances.
Earlier on Friday, the company announced it started pumping out contaminated groundwater from under Fukushima, and managed to pump out 13 tons of water in six hours on Friday. TEPCO also said it plans to boost the pumped-out amount to some 100 tons a day with the help of a special system, which will be completed by mid-August. This will be enough to seal off most of the ongoing ocean contamination, according to TEPCO’s estimates.
However, Japan’s Ministry of Industry has recently estimated that some 300 tons of contaminated groundwater have been flowing into the ocean daily ever since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the disaster.
more at: http://rt.com/news/fukushima-water-overrun-barrier-335/ (http://rt.com/news/fukushima-water-overrun-barrier-335/)
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Paging Atomic Cow.......still think it's much ado about nothing? :whistle:
Sorry for being a little rough on you, but this apparently has been going on for quite awhile and all along, it's been worse than reported.
Please talk [us] down here so we don't worry for nothing.
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Not in the mood for a cheap insult today so don't expect any more replies.
And yes, I think the media has been fear mongering since day one. The amount of material you'd have to dump into the ocean to cause any level of harm outside of the immediate area is so massive that it is physically impossible.
People need to stop hearing the word "radiation" and thinking it means the end of all life on Earth.
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It wasn't meant as an insult in any manner. Sorry you feel that way.
You had shown remarkable knowledge of nuclear power and was virtually the only one that was telling everybody they were overreacting.
And while it may not mean our sushi will be glowing in the dark....the Japanese have to live with it right in their own backyard.