IRSN warns Tepco released highly contaminated water into sea that is 28 times previously reported

In April, Tepco released highly contaminated water to the sea.

In May, Tepco announced the leaked Iodine and Cesium are “ONLY” 4,700 trillion Bq, which is less than 5,200 trillion Bq leaked from Sellafield in England.

However, this assumption does not include the leakage in March. If they include it, it may be the worst sea contamination in history.

In October, IRSN re-estimated that even if you only count Cs-137, it’s 27 quadrillion Bq, which is 28 times worse as Tepco’s report.

Japanese scientists try to deny the number by saying sea should dilute the cesium.

(Source)

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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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