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No room for error? Fukushima basements mistakenly flooded with 200 tons of radioactive water

A pump at Japan’s battered Fukushima power plant has mistakenly flooded its basements with highly contaminated cooling-tank water. But the latest mishap follows a far more worrying discovery about one last year’s leak. About 200 tons of water ended up flooding the basements beneath the complex, although the water didn’t have a pathway to reach […] Continue reading →

New highly radioactive leak at Japan’s Fukushima plant

The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water leaks sparked international alarm. Tokyo Electric Power Co told reporters the latest leak was unlikely to have reached the […] Continue reading →

Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times � TEPCO

RT News TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter – both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter. Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear […] Continue reading →

28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima

The Truth Wins – by Michael Snyder The map at left comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive […] Continue reading →

IAEA Boss Says Fukushima Water Leak Urgent

International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano on Monday characterized the leak of radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant as “a matter of high priority that needs to be addressed urgently.” Amano pledged to send a team to Japan this autumn to deal with the increasingly worrisome problem. Meanwhile, plant operator TEPCO announced […] Continue reading →

TEPCO confirms Fukushima Leaking Highly Radioactive water spread underground

Highly radioactive water that leaked from a storage tank and was not discovered until last month is spreading underground at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sept. 5. The utility said 650 becquerels per liter of radioactive materials, which emit beta rays such as radioactive strontium, were found in […] Continue reading →