Fukushima Rerouting Leaks & Fresh Smoke update 3/4/15
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2015-03-05

ALERT @ fukushima 2015.03.04 14:12 JST 
http://youtu.be/MlFyCY92u3U
Tepco admits 400,000,000 Bq of All β leaked to the sea / Radiation level jumped over double in seawater http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/03/tepco-admits-400000000-bq-%CE%B2-leaked-sea-radiation-level-jumped-double-seawater/
 
TEPCO Ordered to Check All Sources of Toxic Spill
Mar. 4, 2015 - Updated 07:10 UTC-5
Japan's nuclear regulator has ordered the operator of the crippled Fukushima plant to check every possible source of contaminated water that flowed through a drainage channel into the sea.
Tokyo Electric Power Company announced in late February that radioactive water that had accumulated on the roof of the No. 2 reactor building had made its way into the sea.
TEPCO officials presented plans to prevent a similar recurrence at a hearing of the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday. They said they will pump radioactive water from the current drainage channel to another channel leading to the plant's port by early April.
They said they will also change the course of the current channel to carry water to the port instead of the open ocean by April 2016.
The panel ordered the utility to continue investigating whether radioactive water flowed through other drainage channels as well.
TEPCO officials said there was a delay in reporting the problem because the information was not shared by officials working at the site.
The panel ordered the utility to carefully check whether the officials failed to share other data.
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New uclear accident evacuation guideline compiled
Mar. 4, 2015 - Updated 00:34 UTC-5
Japan's nuclear regulator has decided new guidelines for nuclear accidents. It will call on residents outside of a 30-kilometer radius of a nuclear power plant to remain indoors if there could be massive fallout from an accident.
At issue now is how to decide the areas and the timing of lifting the warning.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority compiled on Wednesday revised guidelines for evacuating people in the event of a nuclear accident.
Massive fallout was found beyond a 30-kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the March, 2011 accident. Earlier evacuation guidelines focused only on those who live within 30 kilometers of a plant.
The revised guidelines call on residents outside the 30- kilometer radius to stay inside if there is any possibility of massive amounts of radioactive material reaching their area.
The guidelines note areas at risk will be decided by analyzing radioactivity levels at the plant and local weather conditions to estimate the fallout spread.
It says the order will be lifted after the air mass containing radioactivity no longer covers the area. Authorities would use aerial measurements of radioactivity levels and other metrics.
The guidelines will be finalized after receiving public comments, which will be accepted for 30 days, starting on Thursday.
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