Overflowing Tank Cause of New Leak at Fukushima
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Source: Associated Press
OVERFLOWING TANK CAUSE OF NEW LEAK AT FUKUSHIMA
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
— Oct. 3 11:35 PM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.
The amount is tiny compared to the untold thousands of tons of radioactive water that have leaked, much of it into the Pacific Ocean, since a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked the plant and sent it into meltdown in 2011. But the error is one of many the operator has committed as it struggles to manage a seemingly endless, tainted flow.
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TEPCO said the water then spilled out of a concrete barrier surrounding the tank and believed that most of it reached the sea via a ditch next to the river. The company later said, however, radiation levels in sea water samples taken just off the plant's coast remained below detectable levels.
The overspill, the latest of several mishaps in less than a month, prompted the Nuclear Regulation Authority to summon the utility president and reprimand him in public. Katsuhiko Ikeda, administrative head of the agency, ordered TEPCO President Naomi Hirose on Friday to ensure better on-site management and prevent human error, and submit improvement plans in a report.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-leak-japan-nuke-plant-due-tank-overflow
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and morality be damned, when one can just rely on guidelines that support the dissemination of half-truths and outright lies, eh?
Kinda makes the finger-pointing at less than truthful or deceitful new sources sound a little hypocritical.
I wasn't really speaking to the rightness or wrongness of the OP posting it, however, just pointing out a fact. They have been dumping their poison into the ocean for over two years, the stuff has been in the ground for at least that long. Even their reporting of suddenly higher radiation levels than they had previously been reporting turned out to be because the meters they had been using didn't scale up as high as the readings actually were in certain areas.
I wonder how many thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands, of new medical problems among people in Japan and on the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada won't be acknowledged for years, if ever? And there is the ongoing problem with removing the spent rods and the fresh new disaster that could bring.
People seem really disinterested. I guess if there aren't flames, it doesn't grab attention. Like global climate change...
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