According to Tepco, they had 27.5 m3 of contaminated water overflowed from the tank of reactor5 and 6. Tepco states Cs-137 and total β were lower than the detectable levels, and the water didn’t reach the Pacific ocean because the tank is 100m from the sea, which is supposed to be far enough for some [...]
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27.5 m3 of contaminated water overflowed from tank of reactor5&6, “Forgot to switch the tanks”
Posted by Mochizuki on May 17th, 2013
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation, Global consequences 
Tags: 311, contaminated water, fukushima, japan, leak, nuclear, radiation, reactor5, reactor6, tank, tepco 
1 Comment »[Reservoir Leakage] Tepco not to weld the new emergency tanks of 19,000m3
Posted by Mochizuki on May 3rd, 2013
About the major leakage of highly contaminated water, Tepco is transferring the water from the leaking reservoirs to the “safer” tanks. According to Tepco, they are going to transfer 8,400 m3 in reservoir No.3 and 7,500 m3 in reservoir No.6 to the new tanks from late May. The new tanks are to have 19,000 m3 [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, contaminated water, fukushima, japan, leak, nuclear, press conference, radiation, reservoir, retained water, tank, tepco Comments OffTepco’s newly built emergency tank would be full only within 10 days
Posted by Mochizuki on May 2nd, 2013
Now that they can’t reply on the reservoirs, Tepco has the serious shortage of contaminated water storage. On 5/2/2013, Tepco announced they are installing additional emergency tanks in Fukushima nuclear plant area. However, the capacity is only 4,000 m3. Considering the fact that 400 m3 of ground water is flowing into the plant every single [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, contaminated water, fukushima, groundwater, japan, leak, nuclear, radiation, reservoir, retained water, tank, tepco Comments Off27% of the highly contaminated water tanks will need repairs in 2016, “1,000 tones for each”
Posted by Mochizuki on March 11th, 2013
Tepco is running out of the capacity to stock contaminated water, they are planning to discharge it to the sea. However, 270 of 1,000 existing tanks will need repairs from around the spring of 2016 too. These tanks (1,000 tones per each) were built provisionally just after 311. They are not even welded, only [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, contaminated water, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, repair, tank, tepco 1 Comment »[Is it already discharged ?] Tritium and Sr-90 density in sea water doubled in the latest data
Posted by Mochizuki on March 5th, 2013
According to Tepco, tritium and Sr-90 density in sea water picked up last December. The sampling location is about 30m point in north of reactor5 and 6 discharge channel. Officially they haven’t discharged the retained contaminated water to the sea. Tepco releases the report about tritium and Sr-90 density irregularly, and they don’t release the [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation, Global consequences Tags: 311, contaminated water, discharge, fukushima, japan, nuclear, pacific ocean, radiation, retained, sea, strontium, tank, tepco, tritium Comments Off[Column] Nothing in reality
Posted by Mochizuki on March 4th, 2013
I asked him why he doesn’t analyze food for tritium along with cesium-134/137. Tritium is radioactive water. It’s really hard to remove and causes lymph related cancers etc.. He said he won’t do it because even if he measures tritium from food or tap water, he can’t do anything. He measured a lot of food [...]
Posted in Daily News, Media blackout Tags: 311, discharge, fisheries agency, food, fukushima, japan, nuclear, pacific ocean, radiation, retained water, sea, tank, tepco, tritium 6 Comments »Tepco takes over 56 years to discharge all tritium to the sea on the most optimistic assumption
Posted by Mochizuki on March 4th, 2013
Tepco is going to discharge contaminated water to the sea, however, they would take over 56 years to discharge all tritium to the sea according to Tepco. The tritium is contained in the contaminated water. This is on the assumption that the retained water does never increase even by 1cc for the rest of time, [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, contaminated water, discharge, fukushima, japan, nuclear, pacific ocean, radiation, retained water, sea, tank, tepco, tritium 3 Comments »Contaminated water overflowed from the tank of reactor5 and 6 in the end
Posted by Mochizuki on February 18th, 2013
↑ The overflowed water. 20 m³ is an amount. Tepco releases only the pictures taken in night time. The tanks of retained contaminated water are getting full, Tepco is planning to discharge it to the sea due to the lack of capacity. [URL] At 19:36 of 2/16/2013, a subcontract worker found the contaminated water [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, contaminated water, fukushima, japan, leakage, nuclear, overflow, radiation, tank, tepco Comments OffTepco officially announced to discharge contaminated water into Pacific ocean
Posted by Mochizuki on January 24th, 2013
Fukushima Diary has been warning that Tepco would discharge the increasing contaminated water to the sea. (cf, Tepco plans to discharge contaminated water into the environment, “Getting permission of related departments” [Link 1]) On 1/24/2013, they officially announced they are going to discharge contaminated water into Pacific ocean at the meeting of Nuclear Regulation [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, alps, contaminated water, discharge, fishery products, fukushima, japan, marine, nuclear, pacific ocean, radiation, retained water, sea, tank, tepco 4 Comments »Fukushima worker “Contaminated water might overflow due to the lack of tanks”
Posted by Mochizuki on December 12th, 2012
On 11/27/2012, Fukushima diary warned about the serious shortage of contaminated water storage on the column. (cf. [Column] X-day – when Fukushima plant discharges millions of tones of the contaminated water to Pacific ocean [Link]) According to the tweets of actual Fukushima worker Happy11311, the contaminated water storage is being the urgent problem in Fukushima [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: contaminated water, fukushima, happy, japan, nuclear, overflow, radiation, storage, tank, tepco 5 Comments »
