Contaminated water crisis

1,900,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclide in groundwater on seaside of reactor2 / Keeps increasing for a month

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Significantly high level of all β nuclide (including Strontium-90) is detected in groundwater on the seaside of reactor2, and it’s breaking the highest records every time Tepco analyzes.

This is the groundwater sampled from one of the borings between reactor2 and the sea.

From Tepco’s own data, the density has been increasing at least since 11/25/2013. The latest reading is 1,900,000,000 Bq/m3, which is measured on 12/19/2013. This is approx. as double as the one of 11/25/2013.

Even though the readings are not increasing at other borings, Tepco has been insisting that it is possibly because the groundwater pump is gathering the high level of contaminated water underground.

Tepco is denying the possibility of an unverified leakage of extremely highly radioactive water underground.

 

1,900,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclide in groundwater on seaside of reactor2 / Keeps increasing for a month

 

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13112901-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13120301-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13120601-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13121001-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13121302-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13122002-j.pdf

 

 

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Français :

Radioactivité β à 1,9 milliards de Bq/m³ dans les eaux souterraines côté mer du réacteur 2 : augmentation continue depuis un mois
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Une radioactivité β extrêmement élevée (dont le strontium 90) est relevée dans les eaux souterraines du côté mer du réacteur 2, elle explose les records précédents à chaque nouvelle analyse de Tepco.
Il s’agit de l’eau échantillonnée dans l’un des forages entre le réacteur 2 et la mer.
Selon les propres données de Tepco, la radioactivité augmente depuis au moins le 25 décembre 2013. Le dernier relevé est de 1 900 000 000 (1.9 milliards) Bq/m³, et date du 19 décembre 2013. C’est quasiment le double de celui du 25 novembre 2013.
Bien que les relevés des autres forages n’augmentent pas, Tepco a insisté à dire que c’est sans doute parce que la pompe récupère les eaux souterraines les plus radioactives.
Tepco nie toute possibilité de fuite d’eaux extrêmement radioactives en sous-sol.

1,900,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclide in groundwater on seaside of reactor2 / Keeps increasing for a month

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13112901-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13120301-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13120601-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13121001-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13121302-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13122002-j.pdf

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6 Comments

  1. Lots of wave action since dec 22nd. Wave splashing up over the seawalls and very visible from the JNN webcam. Nuckelchen has captured it very well.

  2. It seems to me obvious that all water on earth comes down from the sky and ends up in the ocean. We can divert it and use it as it passes by, but eventualy it will go in the ocean. We can stop it for a while and keep it in reservoirs, tanks, pools and containers, but eventually it will go i the ocean. There is no way to hold back and stop the water flowing down from the mountains and going around and through the Fukushima reactor buildings. If they build a wall to stop it, The wall will have to be hundreds of meters high, as high as the hills to the west of the plant, and you will create a reservoir so deep that it will engulf the plant. We must accept that the water will mix with radioactive material and it will go into the ocean, slowly or quickly. Why are they doing all this pretending about being able to stop it?

  3. Unfortunately, there has never been an impermeable layer under the Fukushima power plant. Therefore, the groundwater is contaminated all the way down, whether or not there is a China Syndrome.

    Still, grouting, walls and terracing can divert most of the unnecessary, excess water which is not required for corium cooling. Much of the remaining formation water can be pumped up, filtered and stored. A salt-dome can hold immense quantities of tritiated water safely for the required time.

    Much depends on the corium locations. And those locations have not been candidly disclosed.

    Sincerely,

    Bill Duff

    1. Various USA chemical superfund sites have been significantly remediated by pumping clean water in and contaminated water out. The process takes a long time, and is expensive. The results are generally favorable, given the circumstances.

      First the source of the fission products, the corium must be isolated and/or removed. I suspect that a cutting process with ultra high pressure borated water is the best way to safely take chunks of the corium apart, for proper storage and shielding.

      The Fukushima fission products, can be substantially removed from the aquifer, by the above mentioned ‘washing’ process. The tritiated water can not be filtered out. However the 12 year tritium halflife is only 12 years. Thus 50 – 100 years of Salt Dome storage will reduce the tritium to water and helium.

      Sincerely,

      Bill Duff

  5. Remember those two workers that got beta burns from laying cables in the turbine hall water during the meltdowns? Here’s what the IAEA said about that:

    “…According to JAIF, the level of radioactive fission products in the water was about 3.9 million bequerels per cubic centimeter or 10,000 times higher than the reactor water used in the course of normal operations…”

    If 3.9MBq/cm is 10,000x as radioactive as reactor water, than reactor water must be 390 Bq/cm by the IAEA’s numbers.

    The seaside reactor 2 water sample here is 1.9 billion Bq/m or 1,900 Bq/cm.

    You’re not going to get beta burns from this water, but *just the beta* reported is still FOUR times as radioactive as reactor water. What TEPCO will never report is the total gamma+beta measure of this sample (*all* the fission products), which probably makes it several thousand times more radioactive than reactor water.

    This is highly radioactive water by anyone’s measure and probably as contaminated as the turbine hall water they’ve been attempting to decontaminate.

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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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