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Fukushima Rad News 4/6/13: Radioactive Water Seeping Into the Ground?; Strontium Detected In Spill

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Published on 6 Apr 2013

TEPCO: Radioactive water may seeped into ground
Tokyo Electric Power Company says a small amount of radioactive water may have seeped out of an underground water storage facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The water contained strontium.
The utility spokesperson says that on Friday engineers detected a radioactive substance in the water between the layers of waterproof sheets covering the storage facility. The level of radioactivity is considered by the utility to be low.

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TEPCO removing radioactive water
Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun transferring radioactive water from a leaking storage tank at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The company says radioactive strontium and other substances were detected on the ground around a storage tank from Wednesday to Friday.

Abe promises to rebuild disaster-hit area
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government will do all it can to help rebuild areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan on March 11th, 2011.
Abe visited the stricken areas on Saturday. It was his 5th such visit since taking office in December.

New Fukushima facility shrinks nuclear sludge
The city of Fukushima now has Japan’s first facility capable of reducing the volume of the radioactive sludge from the 2011 nuclear disaster.
The facility was installed by the Environment Ministry in a municipal sewage treatment plant. A ceremony was held in the city on Saturday.

Removal of radioactive water continues
Tokyo Electric Power Company is working to transfer radioactive water from a leaking storage tank at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Radioactive water stored in a large underground tank was found to be leaking between Wednesday and Friday.
The utility estimates that 120 tons have leaked so far.
This is the same amount that leaked from storage tank plumbing in March of last year. The leakage is likely to continue, making it the largest leak since the government announced that the reactors had been brought to a state of cold shutdown in December of 2011.
Workers using 4 pumps started to transfer the water to an adjacent tank on Saturday morning.
To shorten the time for the operation, they later began to transfer the water to another tank south of the one that is leaking. Five pumps are being used to transfer 200 tons per hour. TEPCO says it will take more than 3 days to complete the work.
TEPCO estimates that 710 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium, or about 3 times more than the annual allowable limit at the complex, has leaked.
The utility says the contaminated water has not flowed into the ocean, but the leakage is expected to continue until the transfer is completed.
TEPCO is planning to monitor the state of leakage and its impact on the environment by measuring levels of radioactive materials in the soil around the tank.
Apr. 6, 2013 – Updated 17:38 UTC

100 tones of contaminated water may have already leaked to the ground
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You may have heard that Tepco — the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants — announced a large leak of radioactive water.
You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month.
This is newsworthy stuff … but completely misses the big picture.
Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day.
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