Let's check in with our latest potentially-catastrohic cataclysm heading towards our next-to-latest catastrophic cataclysm.. Nuclear Hurricane? If this were a movie, it would be made by and shown on SciFi.. Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima Nuke Plant. Fucking Really? (Found it on Rense.)
Fukushima I Nuke Plant: High Concentration of Radioactive Cesium in the Ocean Soil in 300-Kilometer Strip Along the Coast From Ex-SKF via Rense. Excerpts:
Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi City in Chiba Prefecture.
Oh what a surprise. Who could have known?
The Ministry of Education and Science, who did the survey, even goes to contradict the oft-repeated statement by the chief cabinet secretary and says "the marine products may be affected."
Tepco Failed to Disclose Scale of Fukushima Radiation Leaks, Academics Say Bloomberg via Rense. Excerpts:
As a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (!!)visits Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled nuclear plant today, academics warn the company has failed to disclose the scale of radiation leaks and faces a “massive problem” with contaminated water.
The utility known as Tepco has been pumping cooling water into the three reactors that melted down after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. By May 18, almost 100,000 tons of radioactive water had leaked into basements and other areas of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant. The volume of radiated water may double by the end of December and will cost 42 billion yen ($518 million) to decontaminate, according to Tepco’s estimates.
“Contaminated water is increasing and this is a massive problem,” Tetsuo Iguchi, a specialist in isotope analysis and radiation detection at Nagoya University, said by phone. “They need to find a place to store the contaminated water and they need to guarantee it won’t go into the soil.”
Flip-flopping government shoots self in foot Asia One
Contradictory statements about emergency efforts to cool the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor have damaged the government's credibility as a source of information, and will do nothing to improve Prime Minister Naoto Kan's standing in the international community.
Last Saturday, the government said the injection of seawater into the No. 1 reactor had been temporarily halted on March 12, but altered its account Thursday after Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the seawater injection had continued uninterrupted.
This reversal follows a correction issued by the government Sunday that amended a quote it had attributed to Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission.
"We haven't been conscientious about checking where information has come from," Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Kan, said Thursday evening at a press conference held by the Government-TEPCO Integrated Response Office.
Fukushima I Nuke Plant: High Concentration of Radioactive Cesium in the Ocean Soil in 300-Kilometer Strip Along the Coast From Ex-SKF via Rense. Excerpts:
Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi City in Chiba Prefecture.
Oh what a surprise. Who could have known?
The Ministry of Education and Science, who did the survey, even goes to contradict the oft-repeated statement by the chief cabinet secretary and says "the marine products may be affected."
Tepco Failed to Disclose Scale of Fukushima Radiation Leaks, Academics Say Bloomberg via Rense. Excerpts:
As a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (!!)visits Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled nuclear plant today, academics warn the company has failed to disclose the scale of radiation leaks and faces a “massive problem” with contaminated water.
The utility known as Tepco has been pumping cooling water into the three reactors that melted down after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. By May 18, almost 100,000 tons of radioactive water had leaked into basements and other areas of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant. The volume of radiated water may double by the end of December and will cost 42 billion yen ($518 million) to decontaminate, according to Tepco’s estimates.
“Contaminated water is increasing and this is a massive problem,” Tetsuo Iguchi, a specialist in isotope analysis and radiation detection at Nagoya University, said by phone. “They need to find a place to store the contaminated water and they need to guarantee it won’t go into the soil.”
Flip-flopping government shoots self in foot Asia One
Contradictory statements about emergency efforts to cool the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor have damaged the government's credibility as a source of information, and will do nothing to improve Prime Minister Naoto Kan's standing in the international community.
Last Saturday, the government said the injection of seawater into the No. 1 reactor had been temporarily halted on March 12, but altered its account Thursday after Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the seawater injection had continued uninterrupted.
This reversal follows a correction issued by the government Sunday that amended a quote it had attributed to Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission.
"We haven't been conscientious about checking where information has come from," Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Kan, said Thursday evening at a press conference held by the Government-TEPCO Integrated Response Office.
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