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Radioactive leak detected at Japan’s Fukushima
A small quantity of radioactive water has leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo daily Asahi Shimbun reported Saturday.
A worker at the facility, located in northeastern Japan, found a wet patch measuring 20 sq. centimeters (3 sq. inches) under a storage tank for radiation-contaminated water on Friday morning, Tokyo Electric Power Co. the plant’s operator, said.
Seventy microsieverts per hour of beta-ray-emitting radioactivity, far exceeding the recommended maximum exposure of 0.11 microsieverts per hour, were detected on the surface where the water had leaked.
Workers placed sandbags around the tank to prevent the radioactive water from spreading to other areas, the newspaper said.
The leak was detected on the same day that tests were launched in preparation for the eventual construction of a 1.5-kilometer-long (0.9-mile) frozen soil wall around the No. 1 to No. 4 reactor buildings, a project aimed at preventing further leaks of radioactive water into the sea.
A March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami crippled the Fukushima facility and triggered the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine.
More than four years after the nuclear disaster, 70,000 people who lived near the Fukushima plant still cannot return to their homes due to high levels of radiation, which also has severely affected local farming, cattle-raising and fishing.
10 Comments on "Radioactive leak detected at Japan’s Fukushima"
apneaman on Sat, 2nd May 2015 7:09 pm
Humans are incapable of affecting the environment. Only Jay-sus can do that.
Toady on Sat, 2nd May 2015 7:56 pm
This is The Onion, right?
apneaman on Sat, 2nd May 2015 8:01 pm
Climate change could kill off 1 in 6 of Earth’s species, says study
Wide-ranging extinctions, especially in Australia and South America, could occur if humans don’t act to limit climate change, warns ecologist.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/05/01/climate-change-could-kill-off-1-in-6-of-earths-species-says-study.html
apneaman on Sat, 2nd May 2015 9:06 pm
‘No one tells us the truth’: Locals near Chernobyl fear radiation, Kiev says fire put out
http://rt.com/news/255121-ukraine-chernobyl-fire-radiation/
dubya on Sat, 2nd May 2015 10:50 pm
Just a 3″ damp spot. No other radiation leaks here, no sir-ee, everything’s under control
apneaman on Sat, 2nd May 2015 11:30 pm
My ex use to evacuate the bed because of a 3″ damp spot.
Rodster on Sun, 3rd May 2015 6:44 am
I wouldn’t be surprised if ALL those storage tanks were leaking.
American Idiot on Sun, 3rd May 2015 7:50 am
Pacific is done. Look forward to radioactive filet-o-fish.
Perk Earl on Sun, 3rd May 2015 12:17 pm
…found a wet patch measuring 20 sq. centimeters (3 sq. inches) under a storage tank…
Run for the hills! OMG, it’s a radioactive leak on the scale of a petri dish!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 3rd May 2015 4:02 pm
LOL !!! A radioactive leak… at Fukushima ??????
How can this be? Call the press !!