Posted 09/01/2014

Fukushima leaking radioactive water for ‘2 years, 300 tons flowing into Pacific daily’

Published time: August 07, 2013 10:07

A laboratory technician uses a Geiger counter to measure radiation levels in fish, which was caught close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (Reuters / Issei Kato)

The rate at which contaminated water has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant is worse than thought before, an Industry Ministry official said as PM Shinzo Abe pledged to step up efforts to halt the crisis.

  “We think that the volume of water is about 300 tons a  day,” said Yushi Yoneyama, an official with the Minister of  Economy, Trade and Industry, which regulates Tokyo Electric Power  Co (TEPCO). 

Abe put the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in charge of  the situation, while demanding that the plant’s operator, TEPCO  take the necessary steps to deal with the cleanup, which is  anticipated to take more than 40 years at a cost of US$11  billion.

On Wednesday TEPCO confirmed the leak but refused to confirm the  quantity being emitted from the plant.

“We are not currently able to say clearly how much groundwater  is actually flowing into the ocean,” Tokyo Electric Power  spokesman Noriyuki Imaizumi told Reuters when asked for an  estimate.

Japanese authorities are working in crisis mode, attempting to  assure the public both at home and abroad that the situation will  not further deteriorate into a widespread environmental  catastrophe.

  Yoneyama said the government plans to reduce the leakage amount  to 60 tons per day by as early as December, but given the  Japanese government’s progress in the cleanup to date that goal  may be difficult to achieve. Removing 300 tonnes of groundwater,  however, would not necessarily halt leakage into the sea, he  said. 

The nuclear plant was severely damaged in an earthquake and  subsequent tsunami in March 2011. About 90,000 people within a  20km radius of the plant were forced to evacuate their homes due  to the possibility of a full-scale nuclear meltdown.

  Nearing boiling point?

Earlier, TEPCO said it detected 2.35 billion becquerels of cesium  per liter in water that is now leaking into the groundwater  through cracks in the plant’s drainage system. This radiation  level is roughly the same as that measured in April 2011.

The normal level is 150 becquerels of cesium per liter of water.

For the past two years, TEPCO has claimed that it managed to  siphon off the excess water into specially-constructed storage  tanks. However, the company was forced to admit late last month  that radioactive water was still escaping into the Pacific Ocean.  These consistent failures are testing the patience of Japanese  authorities.

“You can’t just leave it [disposing of radioactive waste at  the plant] up to TEPCO,” Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear  Regulatory Authority (NRA) told Reuters. “Right now, we have  an emergency.”

Earlier this month, TEPCO was forced to go on the defensive after  a scathing first-page article appeared in The Asahi Shimbun daily  criticizing the company’s cleanup efforts.

“TEPCO did nothing for more than two years despite having  pledged to seal a leaking hole between a turbine building [the  leakage source] and an underground pit [a trench] in April 2011  when water contaminated with radioactive materials…was found to  have leaked into the ocean; and the company only began preparing  for shielding tests this summer after contaminated water was  found to be leaking into the sea this time,” the newspaper  stated on August 1, 2013.

TEPCO fired back with its own version of events, saying that  despite “technical difficulties and a severe work  environment” the company has been working to implement a plan  “in order to further reduce the risk of having outflow of  contaminated water beyond the trench.”

Although TEPCO engineers have constructed a barrier between the  destroyed facility and the ocean, it only extends 1.8 meters  below the ground, thus water continues to accumulate inside the  plant vaults.

“If you build a wall, of course the water is going to  accumulate there. And there is no other way for the water to go  but up or sideways and eventually lead to the ocean,” Masashi  Goto, a nuclear engineer who has worked at several TEPCO plants,  told Reuters. “So now, the question is how long do we  have?”

TEPCO has pledged to begin pumping enough radioactive seepage to  stop the water level from rising. But the company faces  limitations, as its storage tanks are 85 percent full.

“New measures are needed to stop the water from flowing into  the sea,” emphasized Kinjo, who accused TEPCO of failing to  implement long-term solutions for a crisis that has been  continuing for more than two years.

Not only is TEPCO running up against technical problems  associated with the cleanup efforts, it must also deal with the  unpredictable force of nature, specifically in the form of  earthquakes.

On Sunday, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of  Miyagi prefecture, the same northeastern region of the island  country that was devastated by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and  tsunami, which resulted in 15,000 people killed and more than  3,200 missing.

No damage or injuries were reported in the latest earthquake, but  some roads and railways were temporarily closed for safety  inspections.

Government happy covering up, Fukushima held together with Duct tape

Government, Media Cover Up Fukushima Radiation Wave Hitting US

As radiation levels spike and mutated wildlife washes ashore, government and media promote delusion.

Anthony Gucciardi

Infowars.com January 8, 2014

Radiation hot spots are popping up around the United States thousands of percentages higher than ‘background radiation’, mutated wildlife is being found dead on the same West Coast beaches where increased radiation levels have been documented by independent researchers and the Fukushima TEPCO plant workers have been caught using duct tape to fix their nuclear equipment. But according to both the Japanese and United States governments, these events mean absolutely nothing.

In fact, you must be a conspiracy theorist if you fail to believe the official story that it was likely red-painted utensils that led to a spike in documented radiation levels along the California coast (yes, the government actually offered this up as an official answer). And you must absolutely be a conspiracy theorist if you have the gall to actually look back to late 2011, when researchers presented their findings regarding the impending wave of Fukushima radiation that was already being recorded within the country.

Information going back to 2011 shows that scientists were already concerned about an increase in radiation levels and the overall fallout from the delapidated Fukushima plant.

We can even go back to the declaration by scientist Marco Kaltofen of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute that radioactive ‘hot particles’ had been found at 2 out of the 3 radiation monitoring stations in Boston. As you are likely aware, hot particles are microscopic pieces of radioactive material that can absolutely wreak havoc on your body via the deliverance of concentrated radiation.

And these particles, according to Kaltofen, were already being found in Boston as far back as 2011.

Now enter a new flurry of stories that have seemingly been popping up one after another as radiation levels are continually being monitored around the nation — namely the West Coast, where the bulk of Fukushima-linked scenarios have been documented. In what sounds like an apocalyptic plot for the latest thriller film, we have mutated whales now washing up dead on the West Coast in the first ever documented case of conjoined gray whale calves. We even have elevated radiation readings as far away as St. Louis, Missouri.

Coincidentily, of course, this is happening at the same time that radiation hot spots exceeding a 1,400% increase over ‘normal’ levels are being reported by researchers. It’s even happening at the same time that similar 500% increases have been disregarded by government officials who admit they have no idea what’s going on but fervently deny any connection to Fukushima in any capacity whatsoever. In fact, that has always been the mantra of these government health officials: We have no idea what’s really going on, but it’s definitely not Fukushima!

Because just as the Japanese government has assured its citizens that Fukushima is perfectly safe and poses no real threat to your health while secretly reviewing studies that reveal the plant released massively more radiation than admitted and led to 78% of the radioactive waste being dumped into the Pacific Ocean, the United States government would much rather silently purchase 14 million doses of potassium iodide than tell you that there may be some cause for concern.

The very core of the Fukushima disaster timeline that has been regurgitated by the mainstream media and government agencies alike was almost exclusively based on information provided by plant operator TEPCO — a company that is now on record as having lied to the population of the world in a major way. And there were no signs they would ever tell the truth unless forced to.

It wasn’t until an independent investigation revealed the actual levels of radiation released from the plant (around 2 1/2 times more than TEPCO would even admit) that TEPCO was forced to go on record and state that the radiation levels they released were indeed much lower than reality.

However, the independent investigation into Fukushima radiation levels not only exposed the lies by TEPCO regarding the radiation explosion at the plant, but it also found that around 78% of the caesium-137 released by the plant was funneling into the Pacific Ocean.

The plant now states that the three reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant released about 900,000 terabecquerels of radioactive substances. About 20% fell on Japanese land, 2% somewhere on land outside the country, and a whopping 78% remainder is believed to have entered the Pacific Ocean.

That’s right — 78% of the waste product ended up in the Pacific Ocean!

At the very least, the Japanese and United States governments should be preparing citizens for what scientists said could last ‘thousands of years’: the Fukushima nightmare. And that begins with admitting that the threat is real. Because unless we really prepare ourselves and work together as a planet to truly fix the Fukushima plant and ensure that the 1,4000+ rods do not cause yet another massive meltdown (as experts say they likely will during transfer), we really will be facing a radioactive nightmare of epic proportions.

Does anyone concede now, that the Illuminati may have a part to play, even having an hidden agenda in this disaster?