[The worst senario] Extremely highly contaminated water leaking to underground, emergency press conference soon

By this January, 96% of contaminated water storage facility was full.
They made 4 holes underground and has been using them for the emergency water storage facility.
(cf. Tepco plans to discharge contaminated water into the environment, “Getting permission of related departments” [URL])
On 4/5/2013, Tepco announced they found the highly contaminated water leaking into the ground.
The underground water storage facility was made on 4/3/2013. The hole was covered with 3 layers of leakage isolation sheets, but they detected 10^7 Bq/m3 of radioactive material from water stocked between the ground and the outer sheet.
They measured 6.0 × 10^9 Bq/m3 of radioactive material from water stocked between the outer sheet and the middle one.

Unreported information.

1. Nuclide
2. Volume of water leaked into the ground
3. Solution

Tepco is going to hold an emergency press conference at 1:30AM of 4/6/2013 (JST).

Tepco is to analyze the water on 4/6/2013 again.
According to Japan Meteorological Agency, a storm is coming to east Japan on 4/6 and 4/7/2013.
(cf, Storm coming to JP for this weekend, the maximum instantaneous wind speed is 30m/s [URL])

 

[The worst senario] Extremely highly contaminated water leaking to underground, emergency press conference soon

 

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1226107_5117.html

 

 

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Français :

[scénario du pire] Des eaux extrêmement contaminées fuient dans le sous-sol, conférence de presse d’urgence bientôt

 

En janvier dernier, la capacité de stockage des eaux contaminées était saturée à 96 %.
Ils ont creusé 4 trous dans le sol et les ont utilisés comme cuves temporaires. (cf. Tepco se prépare à jeter les eaux contaminées dans l’environnement, “Avec la permission des services concernés”)
Le 5 avril 2013, Tepco annonce qu’ils ont découvert que ces eaux contaminées fuyaient dans le sol.
Les cuves ont été creusées le 3 avril 2013. Les trous ont été couverts de 3 couches de feuilles d’isolation des fuites mais ils ont relevé 10 000 000 Bq/m³ de matières radioactives dans les eaux stockées entre le sol et la couche la plus externe.
Ils ont relevé 6 000 000 000 Bq/m³ de matières radioactives dans l’eau entre la feuille la plus externe et celle du milieu.

informations non précisées :
1. Nucléides
2. Volume d’eau ayant fuit dans le sol
3. Solution

Tepco va tenir une conférence de presse d’urgence le 6 avril 2013 à 01:30AM (JST).
Tepco va à nouveau analyser l’eau le 6 avril 2013.

Selon la Japan Meteorological Agency, une tempête arrive sur l’Est japonais les 6 et 7 avril 2013. (cf. Une tempête sur le Japon ce week-end, vitesse maximale instantanée des vents à 30 m/s (= 270 km/h))

[The worst senario] Extremely highly contaminated water leaking to underground, emergency press conference soon

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1226107_5117.html

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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