Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaking Contaminated Water (As Much As 120 Tons)
Source: Reuters
@BreakingNews: As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from Fukushima nuclear plant, officials say - @Reuters http://t.co/Au9fiQdNn7
Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant leaking contaminated water
Fri Apr 5, 2013 10:48pm EDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday.
The power company has yet to discover the cause of the leak, detected on one of seven tanks that store water used to cool the plants reactors, a spokesman for the company, Masayuki Ono, said at a press briefing.
The company plans to pump 13,000 cubic meters of water remaining in the tank to other vessels over the next two weeks.
Water from the leaking tank, which located 800 meters from the coast, is not expected to reach the sea, Kyodo news wire reported, earlier, citing unidentified officials from the utility.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE93501I20130406
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)Phlem
(6,323 posts)not surprised.
-p
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)double it.
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)What could possibly be wrong with this version of the 8th Wonder of the World? Why, this was designed and built by some of the finest minds in the universe, schooled in the dark arts of garbage burning and ever mindful of the safety of corporate profits. What could possibly go wrong?
kansasgurl2012
(8 posts)I can't believe it! At least it didn't reach the sea, or so they say. Why can't we stop this and prevent it from happening!?
Trillo
(9,154 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)will somehow not reach the sea? Who are the kidding? It's already there (along with all the other leakage we never heard about).
bananas
(27,509 posts)AP has additional information in its news report, here's a snippet:
Nuclear Plant Leaking Contaminated Water In Japan
By MARI YAMAGUCHI 04/06/13 07:21 AM ET EDT AP
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Contaminated water at the plant, which went into multiple meltdowns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, has escaped into the sea several times during the crisis. Experts suspect there has been a continuous leak into the ocean through an underground water system, citing high levels of contamination among fish caught in waters just off the plant.
The leak is not only an immediate environmental concern, but threatens TEPCO's tight water management situation, Ono said.
The tank contains 13,000 tons of water, which is part of the water that was used to cool melted fuel at the plant's reactors damaged in the twin disasters. So much water has been used that TEPCO is struggling to find storage space.
"The impact (from the leak) is not small, as the space is already tight," Ono said. "We need to revise our water management plans."
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undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)has been a dumping ground for every waste,and fukashima has been dumping waste in the sea long before this article.
go to the source.
http://fukushima-diary.com/category/bnews/