- Sydney Morning Herald - 1 hour agoThe severity warning about a toxic water leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant is to be dramatically raised, its nuclear watchdog said on ...
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Fukushima radiation leak 'a serious incident'
- From: AFP
- August 21, 2013
Officials inspect the site of contaminated water leaks at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Source: APJAPAN'S nuclear regulator has upgraded a radioactive water leak at the crippled Fukushima plant to a level three "serious incident", its highest warning in two years, as the operator scrambled to contain the impact on the environment.The re-evaluation came a day after operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said some 300 tonnes of radioactive water was believed to have leaked from a tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
It is the worst such leak since the crisis began in March 2011 when a quake-generated tsunami knocked out reactor cooling systems and sparked meltdowns.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority raised the assessment from level one, which means “anomaly” on the UN's International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).
The scale runs from zero to seven with seven being the worst.
Level three cases on the INES scale are described as “serious incidents” with “exposure in excess of ten times the statutory annual limit for workers”.
The nuclear crisis at Fukushima two years ago is one of only two events classified as level seven - the other being the Chernobyl disaster a quarter of a century ago.
TEPCO said the leak was believed to be continuing today and it had not yet pinpointed the source of it, while there were no significant changes in radiation levels outside the plant.
“We are removing the soil contaminated with the leaked water, while sucking the remaining water from the troubled tank,” a TEPCO spokesman said.
“We are trying our best not to spread the contamination to areas outside the facility, including the sea,” he added.
TEPCO has faced a growing catalogue of incidents at the plant including several leaks of radioactive water, following the worst nuclear disaster in a generation.
The company - which faces huge clean-up and compensation costs - has struggled with a massive amount of radioactive water accumulating as a result of continuing water injections to cool reactors.
The embattled utility in July admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater had been leaking outside the plant. This month it started pumping it out to reduce leakage into the Pacific.
The problems have led the Japanese government and its nuclear regulator to say they would get more directly involved in the cleanup at Fukushima, rather than leaving it to the operator.
While no one is officially recorded as having died as a direct result of the meltdowns of Fukushima's reactors, large areas around the plant had to be evacuated.
Tens of thousands of people are still unable to return to their homes.
AFP
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The Australian - 2 hours agoThe problem as I see it is there were I believe three meltdowns at Fukushima. When a meltdown occurs often the radiation simply melts a hole into the ground. At that point there is no way to recover what is melted into the ground because of how deep it can go. Likely there is no way to stop this radiation leak. As a result of this experience it is completely possible that no nuclear power plant is actually safe if located on an ocean or near a large body of water like a lake or river. Because if a meltdown occurred the whole lake or river or underground water table or river or sea could become permanently contaminated. However, since the Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on earth it seems like the radiation would dissipate before reaching Hawaii or the U.S. mainland. However, fish in the ocean are guaranteed to be radiated to a greater or lesser degree within 50 to 100 miles of Fukushima. And larger predator fish like sharks and Tuna and others likely would be consuming these radiated fish whether or not locals were directly. So, by consuming local tuna or other predator fish people might get radiated enough to become ill or die without realizing the cause. Because the fish consumed by the predator fish would concentrate in the cells of predator fish and make the predator fish dangerous to consume for humans.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Fukushima radiation leak becomes a more serious incident
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