Fukushima Massive Radioactive Leak Apology update 6/19/13
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2013-06-20

Groundwater shows massive spike in radioactive material at Fukushima plant — Strontium-90 up over 10,000% in past few months — Tepco apologizes 
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130619_31.html
Xinhua: 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.

Fukushima: Strontium now in Groundwater http://youtu.be/6WkVzYcFDKc

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
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/06/19/japan-finds-highly-toxic-strontium-in-fukushima-groundwater

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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22964089

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

LDP politician apologizes for Fukushima remarks
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130619_24.html

Abe to respect NRA judgement for reactor restarts
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130619_10.html

Latest Headlines: http://enenews.com/

NYTimes: New concerns Fukushima storage tanks are leaking contamination into Pacific Ocean
http://enenews.com/nytimes-new-concerns-fukushima-storage-tanks-leaking-contamination-pacific-ocean

Watch: Plutonium/MOX fuel ad to air during The Daily Show (VIDEO)
http://youtu.be/d2PTwods3Y4

TV: Groundwater shows massive spike in radioactive material at Fukushima plant — Strontium-90 up over 10,000% in past few months — Tepco apologizes (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/tv-groundwater-shows-massive-spike-in-radioactivity-levels-at-fukushima-plant-strontium-up-10000-over-past-few-months-video

Reporter: Higher death rate for people around U.S. nuclear plant? — "The kind of news that makes me stand up and take notice" — Makes me wonder if they've known all along
http://enenews.com/reporter-higher-death-rate-for-people-around-u-s-nuclear-plant-the-kind-of-news-that-makes-me-stand-up-and-take-notice-makes-me-wonder-if-theyve-known-all-along

Physician: AMA meeting is "encouraging monitoring of radiation levels in ocean species" in response to Fukushima
http://enenews.com/physician-ama-encouraging-monitoring-radiation-levels-ocean-species-response-fukushima

"Emergency Action": Lawmaker says nuclear waste is under threat from underground landfill fire near St. Louis
http://enenews.com/emergency-action-lawmaker-says-nuclear-waste-is-under-threat-from-underground-landfill-fire-near-st-louis

Oh, and this just came in:
Fukushima Kids with Yumi Kikuchi
http://youtu.be/MvwzbRpGwUA
On today's podcast, Maggie and Nat interview our very inspiring friend Yumi Kikuchi. Fairewinds has been working with Yumi for more than a year now. She encouraged us to send material to the Tokyo Peace Film Festival, which she organized, and we sent our film "You are not alone." Yumi also co-sponsored Arnie's trip to Japan in 2012, where he gave the presentation "Japan at a Crossroads: Two Futures." Yumi left Japan with her family after the Fukushima Daiichi accident, and currently lives in Hawaii. She founded the Fukushima Kids Hawaii Project (FKHP), usually shortened to Fukushima Kids, and has just returned to Japan where she will be spreading awareness about the project and fundraising. Fukushima Kids aims to host children from Fukushima in Hawaii during school vacations, where they can play outdoors safe from high radiation levels. Children are more vulnerable to the effects of radiation than adults, and we are already seeing signs of thyroid cancer and cysts among children in Fukushima. There are about 300,000 kids living in the Fukushima prefecture, and Yumi is hoping to host 15 kids this first summer. 

on a personal note: 
I'll be gone for the next few days so I probably won't get messages.  Have a nice weekend.