4,200,000,000Bq of β and 10,000,000 Bq of γ nuclides leaked from ALPS again / New technology never get into operation

Extremely high level of radiation leaked from multiple nuclide removing system ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System).

This system has been continuously in the serious trouble since they started the hot test last Spring. However, Tepco doesn’t change their plan to try to purify 1,960 m3 / day of contaminated water from this Summer.

ALPS is practically considered to be one of a few national projects on contaminated water issue. Tepco’s president Hirose promised Japanese Prime Minister Abe to complete purifying all the contaminated water by the end of March in 2015.

The current contaminated water volume is approx. 450,000 m3. ALPS is required to be in the full operation in one of these months.

Around 0:19 of 4/16/2014, Fukushima worker found the contaminated water and absorption material overflowed from a part of the system. The leaking volume was 1.1 m3 as Tepco claims. The total volume of leaked β nuclides was 4.2 Billion Bq, the one of γ nuclides was 10 Million Bq.

The overflowed water spread over 6m × 6m × 3cm. Even the cause hasn’t been verified.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2014/1235598_5851.html

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2014/1235611_5851.html

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2014/images/handouts_140416_09-j.pdf

Iori Mochizuki

You read this now because we’ve been surviving until today.

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Leaking reservoir No.1 won’t be fix for one month

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4,2 milliards de Bq en β et 10 millions de Bq en γ ont encore fuit de ALPS : Cette nouvelle technique n’a jamais été opérationnelle

Une radioactivité extrêmement forte a fuit du système de filtration multi-nucléide ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System).
Ce système a continuellement subi des pannes graves depuis leurs tout premiers essais à chaud du printemps dernier. Néanmoins et depuis l’été dernier, Tepco n’a changé en rien ses plans pour tenter de purifier 1 960 m³/jour d’eaux extrêmement radioactives.
ALPS est pratiquement considéré comme l’un des rares projets nationaux sur les eaux extrêmement radioactives. Le président de Tepco, M. Hirose, avait promis au premier ministre japonais Abe de régler le problème de la purification de toutes les eaux contaminées pour fin mars 2015.
Le volume actuel des eaux extrêmement radioactives est d’environ 450 000 m³. ALPS doit être fonctionnel à plein régime ces mois-ci.

Le 16 avril 2014 vers 00:19, un travailleur de Fukushima a découvert de l’eau extrêmement radioactive et un morceau de la matière absorbante ayant débordé d’un endroit du système. Le volume de la fuite est de 1,1 m³ selon ce qu’affirme Tepco. Le volume total en β-nucléides est de 4,2 milliards de Bq, celui en γ-nucléides de 10 millions de Bq.
L’eau de la fuite s’est répartie dans un volume de plus de 6 × 6 m × 3 cm. Même la raison de la fuite n’a pas été établie.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2014/1235598_5851.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2014/1235611_5851.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2014/images/handouts_140416_09-j.pdf

Vous pouvez lire ceci parce que nous avons survécu jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

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Bill Duff says:

April 18, 2014 at 12:39 pm

Welcome Home!

Estimated radiation doses of Fukushima returnees withheld for half a year

April 16, 2014, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, http ajw asahi com/ (article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201404160056) – http English kyodonews jp/ (news/2014/04/285470) html

Japan withheld findings on estimated radiation exposure for Fukushima returnees for six months, even though levels exceeded the long-term target of 1 millisievert a year at more than half of surveyed locations. Individual radiation doses were estimated to be beyond 1 millisievert per year, or 0.23 microsievert an hour, at 24 of all the 43 surveyed sites, including ones in the Miyakoji district in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, The Asahi Shimbun learned April 15.

The revelation comes just two weeks after the central government lifted the evacuation order for the district on April 1.
Bill Duff says:

April 18, 2014 at 12:58 pm

The Chernobyl Factor in the Ukraine Crisis

APR 14, 2014 Bennett Ramberg, a policy analyst in the US State Department’s Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs under President George H.W. Bush, is the author of Destruction of Nuclear Energy Facilities in War and Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy. – http www project-syndicate org/ – http www project-syndicate org/ (commentary/bennett-ramberg-calls-attention-to-the-dangers-of-fighting-near-nuclear-power-stations)

LOS ANGELES – Twenty-eight years after its Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, Ukraine confronts a nuclear specter of a different kind: the possibility that the country’s reactors could become military targets in the event of a Russian invasion. Speaking at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague in March, Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukraine’s acting foreign minister, cited the “potential threat to many nuclear facilities” should events deteriorate into open warfare.
Bill Duff says:

April 18, 2014 at 1:23 pm

Crews find suspected area of WIPP radiation leak

By Associated Press Published: Thursday, April 17, 2014, 9:18 pm – http krqe com/ (2014/04/17/crews-find-suspected-area-of-wipp-radiation-leak/)

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – Two months after radiation leaked from the federal government’s half-mile deep nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico, officials said Thursday that crews have found contamination underground in the area where waste was most recently being stored. Crews on their fourth trip into the mine on Wednesday made it into the only active waste storage area and found contamination, Reynolds said. The deeper they went into the area, the more widespread the contamination, she said.

But the crews had to retreat before identifying the possible source because they had been underground for five hours in protective gear that retains heat and the batteries on their respiratory equipment were running low.

Tammy Reynolds, the U.S. Department of Energy’s deputy recovery manager, told a community meeting in Carlsbad that more trips need to be made into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to further investigate the accident, but officials hope to have more information next week. Waste at the plant is stored in panels, which are a series of rooms cut out of underground salt beds. Five of those panels are full and have already been sealed. Panel 6 is full but has not yet been sealed. Panel 7 is the current active storage area. Crews made it to both Panels 6 and 7, and they found the contamination in Panel 7, Reynolds said.

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