Fukushima China Syndrome update 6/24/13
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2013-06-25

Fukushima: Strontium now in Groundwater 
http://youtu.be/6WkVzYcFDKc
    At 6:45 in
    Kevin Kamps, nuclear waste watchdog at Beyond Nuclear: It's really incredible [Tepco's] been criticized for very short term thinking.
 They're taking things like one day at a time.
    This is a decades long, if not centuries long crisis that they're facing. [...]
    Long term scenario, Tokyo Electric certainly doesn't know what to do, they're showing that by their actions.
Thom Hartmann talks with Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog-Beyond Nuclear
Website: www.beyondnuclear.org, about the latest dangers at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
inhua: Very high radioactivity levels were detected in groundwater from an observation well at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Wednesday. [...] The observation well was set up on the Pacific side of the plant's No. 2 reactor turbine building last December to find out the reasons why radioactivity levels in seawater near the plant remained high. The company said the sampled water could be from the contaminated water that seeped into the ground.

Tritium level rising in Fukushima plant port
Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Company say the level of radioactive tritium has been rising in sea water near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
They say they can't rule out the possibility that contaminated groundwater seeped into the sea.
TEPCO officials said contained 1,100 becquerels of tritium per liter.That is 10 times the amount detected in previous tests.
But they said the figure is still less than one-fiftieth of the government-set limit for water to be released into the sea.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130625_04.html

Reuters: Testing of groundwater showed the reading for strontium-90 increased from 8.6 becquerels to 1,000 becquerels per litre between Dec. 8, 2012 and May 24
BBC News: High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says. [...] Strontium-90 is formed as a by-product of nuclear fission. Tests showed that levels of strontium in groundwater at the Fukushima plant had increased 100-fold since the end of last year, Toshihiko Fukuda, a Tepco official, told media.
NHK: Tokyo Electric has again drawn criticism for a delay in revealing the latest incident. Workers took a sample of the groundwater on May 24th. [...] They apologized for the delay.
NHK: [Fukushima] prefecture summoned the utility's managing director, Akio Komori, to the prefectural government office on Wednesday. Komori apologized for the trouble

Fukushima breaking news China Syndrome NUCLEAR Fission Explained Kevin d blanch 6/22/13 
http://youtu.be/F5otJzcvck0

This is a Great Video:
Impact of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: A Conversation with Kevin Kamps 
http://youtu.be/Qb_sH0E-qEc

Nuclear authority to allow 2 reactors to run
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority is set to allow the only 2 reactors remaining online in the country to continue operation.
Experts from the authority have been inspecting the reactors at the Ohi nuclear plant, in central Japan, to see if they can satisfy severe accident guidelines that take effect in early July.
Before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, utilities were allowed to decide for themselves whether to implement such precautionary measures. This was owing to a wide-spread belief that such an accident was unlikely in Japan.
At a meeting on Monday, the experts discussed improvements that the operator, Kansai Electric Power Company, has proposed for its draft plan for the plant.
These include enhancing video conferencing equipment at a tentative emergency command center, and improving the ability to pump in sea water to cool reactors.
The operator said it will complete the improvements by the end of this month.
Officials at the authority had presented the draft report for the plant last week. It says there is no immediate threat to the safety of the reactors. The experts approved that draft with the improvements.
The authority is expected to allow the reactors to continue operating through to Sept. when they will go down for regular maintenance.
The new guidelines stipulate that plant operators must set up an emergency command center that is strong enough to withstand earthquakes, tsunamis and radiation in a worst-case scenario.
They also require operators to install "filter vents" for boiling-water type reactors similar to those at the stricken Fukushima plant. The vents can ease pressure in containment vessels by releasing gases after filtering out most of radioactive substances.
Plant operators must also prepare cooling measures for situations where there is an attack by aircraft. The guidelines also call for replacing power cables with non-flammable types. 

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