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Video Audio: Radioactive Floods Recontaminate Japan

Radioactive Floods Recontaminate Japan http://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education//radioactive-floods-recontaminate-japan  Last week a serious typhoon hit eastern Japan creating flooding that has not occurred for at least 50 years. Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator and owner of the triple meltdown site Fukushima Daiichi, admitted that drainage pumps at Fukushima failed and radioactive water once again poured into the Pacific. But what about the extraordinary amount of radioactive cesium, strontium, and other isotopes spread hundreds of miles from the nuclear catastrophe site yet to be cleaned up and now displaced by the flood into newly contaminated villages? Once again, Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, is here to keep you informed.

September 21, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual