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Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well
Radioactivity levels in a well near a storage tank at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have risen immensely on Thursday, the plant’s operator has reported.
Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on Friday they detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances – including strontium – at the site, a level 6,500 times higher than readings taken on Wednesday, NHK World reported.
The storage tank leaked over 300 tons of contaminated water in August, some of which is believed to have found its way into the sea through a ditch.
The well in question is about 10 meters from the tank and was dug to gauge leakage.
TEPCO said the findings show that radioactive substances like strontium have reached the groundwater. High levels of tritium, which transfers much easier in water than strontium, had already been detected.
Officials at TEPCO said they will remove any contaminated soil around the storage tank in an effort to monitor radioactivity levels of the water around the well.
The news comes after it has been reported a powerful typhoon which swept through Japan led to highly radioactive water near the crippled nuclear power plant being released into a nearby drainage ditch, increasing the risk of it flowing into the sea.
On Wednesday TEPCO said it had detected high levels of radiation in a ditch leading to the Pacific Ocean, and that it suspected heavy rains had lifted contaminated soil.
5 Comments on "Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well"
Charlie Bucket on Fri, 18th Oct 2013 1:56 pm
“Officials at TEPCO said they will remove any contaminated soil around the storage tank”. Remove it to where? This shit is contaminated for 100,000 years! Why not just leave it there? This situation is seriously F’ed up.
Kenz300 on Fri, 18th Oct 2013 2:40 pm
Nuclear experts from around the world need to be brought in to help…….
TEPCO is in over their heads……
It has been to years since the initial disaster and they do not have the site under control…
The worlds press needs to have more access to the site and report on it honestly and openly. TEPCO and the government of Japan have not been honest and open about this disaster from the beginning.
They are poisoning the world………
Norm on Fri, 18th Oct 2013 4:05 pm
Remove the contamimated dirt? LOL.
Feemer on Fri, 18th Oct 2013 4:36 pm
Why the hell hasn’t the International Atomic Energy Agency been called in to help? Why is the government of Japan leaving the iresponsible company who created this mess to clean it up? This is ridiculous, the IAEA and the government need to take over. No one wants to admit that this nuclear disaster is worse that Chernobyl, but it is, it is leaking radioactive water into the ocean.
GregT on Fri, 18th Oct 2013 5:00 pm
The only answer to this mess, was to not fuck around with things in the first place, that we have no idea how to deal with.
There are over 400 more sites globally, that eventually will need to be contained. We don’t know how to deal with them either.