Radiation Levels in Seawater Near Fukushima Spike to Two-Year High
TEPCO admits cesium levels measured Wednesday were 13 times higher
than day before
Published on Thursday, October 10, 2013 by Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/10-3
No one at Fukushima seems to have any idea what they're doing
WEDNESDAY, OCT 9, 2013
<http://www.salon.com/2013/10/09/no_one_at_fukushima_seems_to_have_any_idea_what_theyre_doing/?source=newsletter>
Through Fukushima Lense, a Look at Looming US Nuclear Crisis
Published on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 by Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/09-7
DOE Reveals Delays in Plutonium Disposition Program
October 9, 2013
Friends of the Earth
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/10/09-2
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/09-4
Published on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 by Common Dreams
Fukushima Workers Doused With Radioactive Water
Second mishap in a week marks ongoing nuclear disaster
- Andrea Germanos, staff writer
In what was just the latest in a long series of mishaps at the
Fukushima nuclear power plant, six workers were splashed with
radioactive water, plant operator TEPCO said on Wednesday.
A leak occurred when workers accidentally detached a pipe connected
to a desalination system and as much as 10 tons of radioactive water
may have spilled, hitting workers and covering the floor.
Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of Japan's nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear
Regulation Authority, said that while he did not believe the workers
were exposed to "a seriously troubling dosage," he said that "the
fact that there has been a string of incidents occurring on a daily
basis that could have been avoided-I think that is the large problem."
Wednesday's mishap was the second to hit the plant this week.
On Monday, a worker at Fukushima accidentally turned off power to
pumps for a water cooling system.
And just days before that, on Thursday of last week, TEPCO announced
another spill at the crisis-hit plant released water 6,700 times more
radioactive than the legal limit.
The list of problems contributing to the ongoing Fukushima disaster
are far from solved, as anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman
recently wrote:
Massive quantities of heavily contaminated water are pouring into
the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds of huge, flimsy tanks are also leaking
untold tons of highly radioactive fluids.
At Unit #4, more than 1,300 fuel rods, with more than 400 tons of
extremely radioactive material, containing potential cesium fallout
comparable to 14,000 Hiroshima bombs, are stranded 100 feet in the
air.
All this more than 30 months after the 3/11/2011 earthquake/tsunami
led to three meltdowns and at least four explosions.
A group of nuclear experts issued a letter "in urgency" to UN head
Ban Ki-moon last month imploring him to coordinate international
action to deal with the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
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