Water 6,700 times more radioactive than legal limit spills from Fukushima

[IDemo]

Source: NBC News

TOKYO -- Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has suffered yet another leak, spilling out 430 liters of contaminated water thousands of times more radioactive than legal limits, its operator said Thursday.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, said the water which spilled from the storage tanks had radiation readings as high as 200,000 becquerels per liter -- almost 6,700 times higher than the legal limit of 30 becquerels.

Although sandbags have been placed to prevent further spread of the leak, some of that water may have already reached the plant's harbor on the Pacific Ocean through a drainage trench, TEPCO said.

The leak comes one day after Japanese fast food company Yoshinoya Holdings announced plans to grow vegetables on a farm just 60 miles from the nuclear plant.

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[blkmusclmachine]

1. .

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[Mnemosyne]

2. ...nt

[The Stranger]

3. That last paragraph actually made me burst out laughing.

If I weren't laughing, I'd be crying.

[They_Live]

4. I'm certain once again

that this information is accurate and in no way an underestimate of the actual amount that has leaked. There is nothing to worry about.

[heaven05]

5. +1000

human incompetence with dangerous materials will be the death of us all.

[closeupready]

9. And, you know, it's invisible, so no harm done.

[blackspade]

6. Holy fuck....

[OnyxCollie]

7. Well, that's fucked.

[greiner3]

8. "...Japanese fast food company Yoshinoya Holdings announced plans to grow vegetables ..."

I wonder how much safer 'Pink Slime' is compared to the veggies this company plans to grow.

[Sunlei]

11. we'll find out when we get madcow or thyroid tumors

"MoOOooo" said the pink cow.

[Sunlei]

10. sandbags!? and why is there even a "drainage trench" to the sea around those HOT tanks?