Thursday, January 24, 2013

Fukushima updates - follow up items on the continuing radioactive contamination and problems related to the Fukushima nuclear plant that is killing Japan and probably sickening the world ...... slowly

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Tepco officially announced to discharge contaminated water into Pacific ocean

  Fukushima Diary has been warning that Tepco would discharge the increasing contaminated water to the sea. (cf, Tepco plans to discharge contaminated water into the environment, “Getting permission of related departments” [Link 1]) On 1/24/2013, they officially announced they are going to discharge contaminated water into Pacific ocean at the meeting of Nuclear Regulation [...]

Radioactive soil from decontamination dumped beside the tapwater source in Nihonmatsu city Fukushima

  According to journalist Kirishima, contaminated soil produced from decontamination is dumped beside Yamanoiri dam in Nihonmatsu city Fukushima, which is the tapwater source. It’s dumped on the heights even without leakage isolation sheet.   http://zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20130118-00000008-sasahi-soci     Iori Mochizuki _____ Français : Les sols radioactifs de la décontamination jetés à côtés de la source [...]

Futabamachi mayor, “Like in Auschwitz camp, our DNA is massacred in Fukushima prefecture just like guinea pigs”

  Futabamachi town mayor, Idogawwa has been purged to oppose accepting interim storage facility of contaminated soil produced from decontamination. [Link 1] Since he was seriously exposed in 311, he has been having the serious health symptoms. (cf, Futaba town mayor “Fukushima medical university stops us from having exposure test.” [Link 2]) On 1/20/2013, he [...]

Smoke from the common spent fuel

Around 10:45 of 1/24/2013, the fire alarm detected smoke on the basement floor of common spent fuel. It was the white smoke coming up from the power cable put on the floor. They plugged out to stop the smoke. Tepco comments there is no damage to out of the site.   Related article..Black smoke from [...]


Strontium-90 detected from near the water discharge channel of reactor1~6

According to Tepco’s “Nuclides Analysis Result of Radioactive Materials in the Seawater” published on 1/23/2013, Strontium-90 was detected from 30m of the discharge channel of reactor5 and 6 and 330m of the discharge channel of reactor 1~4, where Cs-134/137 were detected to be lower than 1.0 and 1.3 Bq/L. Tepco acknowledged it is due to [...]

Reactor2 pressure had a huge drop in October. 2012

According to Tepco’s plant parameter, reactor2 pressure had a huge drop last October. Because both of the pressures in PCV and RPV dropped at the same timing, the indicators are valid.     http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/pla/2013/images/csv_6h_data_2u-e.csv     Iori Mochizuki Fukushima Diary is genuinely supported by your donation !! _____ Français : La pression du réacteur 2 [...]


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