Published: December 5th, 2011 at 8:54 am ET
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Tepco Press Release, Dec. 5: “At 11:33 am on December 4, workers found that there was puddle water inside the barrier around the evaporative condensation apparatus (estimated volume of water was approx. 45 m3 [1 cubic meter of water = 1 metric ton]).”
NHK: “The water is believed to have contained 130,000 becquerels per cubic centimeter of radioactive strontium.”
New York Times: “Tepco said a check on Saturday had found no sign of the leak, suggesting that it began Saturday night or early Sunday morning. The company said it was exploring ways to stop any more water from escaping.”
45 metric tons = 45,000 kg = 45,000,000 cubic centimeters * 130,000 becquerels per cubic centimeter of strontium = 5,850,000,000,000 Bq strontium
See also:
- WSJ: New Leak Detected at Fukushima Plant -- Asahi: Strontium at 1,000,000 times gov't limit?
- Japan Times: Tepco's decontamination system doesn't remove strontium -- Media butchers details on latest Fukushima leak
Published: December 5th, 2011 at 8:54 am ET
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Posted here altho it went to moderation.
Everyone is tweeting this article at HP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/04/more-radioactive-leaks-from-fukushima_n_1128538.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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5.8 trillion becq of strontium, PLUS:
—–> In April = 11,500 tons of radioactive water
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-04/world/japan.nuclear.reactors_1_radioactive-water-fuel-pool-tokyo-electric-power?_s=PM:WORLD
—–> from March 21 and April 30 = “11.4 quadrillion becquerels of iodine-131 and 3.6 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137″
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201109099808
—–> Where is the radioactive water/debris?
in April = arrived at Russian Kamchatka Peninsula
in November = arrived at the international date line
any day now = radioactive debris could arrive on the shores of British Columbia, Canada
—–> “…cesium being leaked into the sea from Fukushima Daiichi had traveled 2000km and down to 5000km in depth in the Pacific”
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=4139
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“is believed to have contained”
Same old bafflegab.
Believed by whom? On what evidence (if any)? Why past tense? What else did it contain?…
“may have leaked” or maybe we just forgot where we put it?
What are the odds of 45 (tons and becquerels) appearing legitimately twice in the same press release?
Nine months in. Sheesh.
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thought the same thing when first reading it… 45 m3 of water and 45 cm3 of total cesium. odd: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111205_03.html
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See this? Fukushima plant springs new water leak
Strontium spike feared; sandbags used to halt flow
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111205x1.html
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Oops. Same as here. Goofball.
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lol.. anne and I posted the same article almost at exactly the same time last night too..hahaha It’s not goofball.. it’s “on the ball” and “on the same page”
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Yep.
12/06 Escape to Okinawa may not be far enough
http://www.smh.com.au/world/escape-to-okinawa-20111205-1ofh3.html
As radiation hot spots emerge in Tokyo and nuclear contamination plagues the country, some Japanese are fleeing to the Okinawa island chain to avoid the fallout from Fukushima. But is it too late?
Okinawa from Fukushima 1093 miles or 1758.64 Kilometers
http://www.distance-calculator.co.uk/world-distances-fukushima-to-okinawa.htm
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LOOK QUICK
FRONT AND CENTER!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant-leaks_n_1128868.html
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Sandbags used to halt flow?
Ft. Calhoun comes to mind….
Tepco should try a rubber donut.
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And the poor workers who have to place the sandbags..is TEPCO again sacrificing workers? Anyone have an idea HOW dangerous that area is..the area the 11.6 Trillion Beq of radioative water passed through? The Drainage ditch has been used for lots of Fukushima ongoing discharge.Hope workers are safe. Not holding my breath…
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The only comparison I’ve seen is the bridge of death. If those are the same colors, Chernobyl’s colors and those who watched them got a dose of 500 roentgens. A lethal dose. Not sure how long they lasted though or if they were as intense as what’s going on here but still yes, poor workers, poor everyone who can’t or doesn’t do anything to protect themselves.
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I think a more than a leak happened over the weekend…
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The fire, the flashes, green lights and cameras turned off, you may be right on traget. We really have no way of knowing if an explosion occured! TEPCO has arranged for the control of information.
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That. We saw it, we saw the reactions. It’s enough for me to “believe”. No one else is likely to believe it anyway considering everything that’s come out thus far. Denial runs deeply. (I mean that generally, not specifically naming anyone here..)
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or anyone here for that matter.. I was thinking, all of these articles, no matter the level of confession, no matter coming from sources they say they trust, if they’re still willing to never speak to me again and throw me under the bus, they won’t believe this article either. I do though. I hope everyone who does, not only has a plan but is/has been acting upon it.
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I hear you LetThem. This will not end well at all. For any of us….marine life included.
Dont eat the fish isn’t enough. Think of everywhere it’s contaminating. The LIST is endless.
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Yep. Beyond time to act upon new personal protocol. and the thing that kills me (or kills them rather) is that evidence shows what people are/have been saying here as far as what’s occurring on the cam, why, what to do to protect/fix themselves is the most accurate assessment out there.
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http://enenews.com/forum-best-practices-combating-effects-radiation
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do it.
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I been out all day riding buses & probably getting a lungfull or two of Fuku’s “finest”(“literally”=particulate matter!)after tending to & comforting my wife from another serious attack which have worsened since the “newer” health issue began in mid-April where she has been diagnosed with “seizure disorder” testing determined was NOT epileptic,but recently determined to be a “hormonal disorder related to Thyroid function problems”!!?? Now she simultaneously has “full gran mall seizures” combined with her acute asthma,although the asthma has been an issue for her since her birth. The attacks have been happening at the rate of about 5 to 20 times per week,with the higher number noted during times of both great anxiety & anguish,but noted by me to be when the US,especially midwestern region displays a “spike” in radiation with elevated level’s being apparent within a 1,000 mile radius. So I’d been going through this with her and still thinking about my 19 yr. old daughter losing her baby 11 weeks ago when the 8-week fetus that would’ve been my first grandchild’s heart stopped beating & spontaneously aborted the pregnancy?!! Then I see weird stuff start happening and I’d posted last night that perhaps some useful new technology was being applied at last,but my guarded optimism was quickly dispelled by news “leaked” out(no pun intended)regarding the Strontium and erased any notions of “mysterious,miraculous” possibly positive developments which would’ve been nice,but could not make up for the damage already being felt & the mutual contempt personally held-one parties motivating factor being “business”,and the other very “personal”! I can’t elaborate more here,but The Establishment is using “other” methods to “punish” specific members of the opposition in ways far,far removed from the issue in focus very effectively.I suggest very strongly that engaging in this struggle against TPTB is hazardous to 1′s health-including their poor & sick…
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families!
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11.6 trillion is the correct number using the TepCo rule.
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How this looks like in the Russiam media:
Around 11:30 (06:30 GMT) in the room, where he worked cleaning equipment, has accumulated 45 tons of water. After three hours, experts found that the water flows out through a crack in the concrete base of the building in a drainage ditch. Ditch 500 m into the sea, but so far Ters no precise information about whether there has got radioactive water.
Leak occurred in a part of the equipment, where the water has already passed decontamination of cesium from the salt is purified, but it retained radionuclides such as strontium-90, which emit beta rays. Accumulated on the surface of the water level of gamma-rays was 1.8 millisievert per hour, a beta-ray – 110 millisieverts per hour.
http://www.utro.ru/news/2011/12/04/1014785.shtml
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And Tepco also said:”The water was contaminated with the radioactive substances caesium and iodine but their levels were “roughly the same as or slightly higher” than ocean water near the plant, the spokesman said.”
So daijobu, no problem.
This Water just got accumulated!
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Wonder if TEPCO can provide the numnbers for the “roughly the same as or sightly higher” than ocean water near the plant. Since the ocean water near the plant is radioactive–and contaminated..would be good to have the exact figures…or guess WE CAN provide the figures on our own. Best if TEPCO comes forward with it..but they probably think “HIDING” is a good idea. Saving face?
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Perhaps they took the water sample from the sea at the spot where the leaking water ran into the ocean. That could explain the similar readings.
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@Hemisfear,
the Sea-Water around the Plant is really polluted
and enriched by a lot of different Nuclide’s!
Alone from the Explosions there must be
“Trillions of Billions Bq.” around the Harbor!
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hello
Is someone able to tell us what this amount of radioactivity put in the pacific means? So many numbers, millions, trillions, cm3 etc… I just don’t realize. I know it is horrible, but what a comparaison can we have?
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Salut karaa, off-topic, but: un tout grand BRAVO à Greenpeace France! C’est un action remarquable!!
http://www.greenpeace.org/france/fr/campagnes/nucleaire/Nucleaire–au-coeur-du-reacteur–liveblog/
nous arrêtons du nucléaire!!
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salut b&b
yes a bit off topic, but they did it!!! respect for the idea of greepeace
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@Karaa,
no have “comparison”
but i doubt a useful health effect!
We will see it in a few Generations of the Fish,
in the small Fishes, which are living on that part of the Coast in a permanent manner in between 3-10 years and in the bigger ones like the Tuna,
which is traveling a lot and eat the Fish from that Coast in between 5-12 years!
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fish developed long ago during a period in our past when radiation levels were much higher they are less susceptible to the affects of radiation. mammals are late comers to the evolution game and will be toasted by the radiation . most sea life will survive we however should not eat the contaminated sea life. aquatic mammals are showing first signs of trouble.
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Tepco said 5.8 trillion? lol so we all know what to do right? automatically double it to 11.6 trillion.
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I’m beginning to think 20km evacuation zone isn’t about concern for health, but no witnesses.
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Evidently, they plan people arriving home after their “cold shut down condition” at 15 of December and dealing with radiation, which has already become private property of these people!
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You got that right. They’ve also added to the nightly lightshow with more blinky red lights.
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Hello FF,
Exactly what we have been saying.
A light-show as you so well put it. The energy is all around the hocus-pocus thing. The magician says, watch my hand up here, as he pick-pockets you with the other hand DOWN THERE.
Or, don’t look over here, look over there! The fantasma show is more and more seemingly all about a distraction, but a distraction from what?
All counters and weather reporters please be vigilant and make your marks on the permanent radiation monitoring threads wall over here:
http://enenews.com/post-radiation-monitoring-data
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UK govmt. shared intelligence with nuclear industry
“The British government has been quietly exchanging intelligence on key policies with multinational companies in an effort to protect and promote their plans for new nuclear power stations, according to internal documents seen by the Guardian.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has also passed the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), which represents 260 companies, and the French nuclear company, EDF Energy, details of its court battle against Greenpeace, which is trying to block the nuclear plans.
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With the government planning to build eight new nuclear power stations in England and Wales, there is a perception that ministers have been working closely with the industry to manage public opinion and prevent the kind of backlash against the technology that has happened in Germany and Italy.
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In the latest revelations, a minute of a meeting on 15 September between officials from Decc’s Office for Nuclear Development (OND) and EDF reveals that they shared information about the handling of the company’s application to build the first of the new nuclear stations at Hinkley Point, in Somerset, and much else.”
…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/05/uk-government-intelligence-nuclear-industry
Grace! Arc!
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the brits are so doped up and medicated by the benign nazi government..
they do not have to explain anything they just keep quite,then release a press statement.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/uk-energy-uk-plutonium-idUKTRE7B01G520111201
this guy has beened purchased or bribed by the psycho nuke industry and is part of the cover up.
Energy and climate change secretary: Chris Huhne
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in the u.s., here are some interesting statistics:
25% of women in the u.s. take anti-depressants
15% of men in the u.s. take anti-depressants
+/- 6 million children in u.s. diagnosed with adhd + a large % of them are/were on medication
up to 4 % of adults in u.s. have adhd
flouride (put in water/toothpaste) is proven to cause brain and neurological damage
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CNN ignors danger of “leak of some contaminated water”. Again one more USA news broadcaster, CNN, does not have a clue. Or are they assisting TEPCO! 5.6 Trillion Bq of Stronium..and CNN (yes, the NEWS channel CNN) reports as only “slightly higher” than ocean at the drainage area. BUT prior to this, said it was” not known if radioactive runoff reached the sea.” The answer is YES it reached the sea..and YES if its slightly higher than the ocean near the Fukushima drain–the seawater may contain up to 5.6 Trillion Bq in the Ocean.
Wonder what Japan and TEPCO have on the Nuclear Plants worldwide to make the countries IGNORE the radiative dangers. Maybe a LOT more leaks do not get reported……
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We all know how this is going to end. Just keep trying to inform people and keep yourselves comfortable.
Sticky green anyone?
No?
I’ll come back
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I can hear TEPCO now:
Nothing to worry about, it’s less than half a millionth of the overall release.
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MSM: Radioactive Water Leaks From Japan’s Fukushima Plant
Sunday, 4 Dec 2011 | 8:14 PM ET
At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water has leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station unit, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator said on Sunday.
More at:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45546591
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Most Sadly for *all of us here*, almost as if psychic, we all KNOW the headline before it is ever written or mentioned as mere acknowledgment… we knew of melt down, melt through and all realities BEFORE they were in headlines. None of what I reading comes by surprise, other than it has taken this long to publicly address…
To see ridiculous numbers bantered about, are an insult to me. Who really knows ANYTHING with actual dimensions of this mess. Any mention of numbers is ludicrous, like there is any distinction between, TOTAL DESTRUCTION and 98% destruction of said…
To me it is not simply the amount of life threatening radioactive matter continuously eject – but also the methods of propagation into our atmosphere that are most alarming to me.
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Correct weight truthseek. We had a (very) brief news article on TV news here in Australia today, reporting the leak almost as if some new piece of technology had suffered a minor glitch. No problem, TEPCO says they can fix it. Made me angry – and I don’t usually get angry.
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Finally some coverage in the NZ print media.
No mention of strontium though.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/japan-earthquake/6091216/Radioactive-water-leaks-from-Fukushima
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Yes you can in fact make $200 to $2,000 per day from the comfort of your own home by learning to trade Gold. The entire Oil market doesn’t really trade, rather the price of Gold is controlled by a computer, interest you? To learn more google “Gold Trading Academy.”
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For the past several days Ive been noticing this nonsene with ever increasing frequency. What exactly do your several month old rants have to do with anything? First the information is old news, and secondly, you have little credibility.
The other day you predicted a massive explosion. Nothing happened. What are your sources? Where do you get these “messages”? I often receive mine while taking a crap, but don’t feel the need to post them, especially into a blog.
This sir is fear mongering at its finest.
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Interesting response. Do you simply discount everything you don’t understand? What would you respect… a physicist spouting data?
All bets are off now. Arrogance and narrow mindedness got us here, we’ll need better than that to survive.
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‘I often receive mine while taking a crap’
makes sense your messages sound like you talk out of your ass.
so coded fart messages that your brain can comprehend
This sir is fart mongering at its worst.
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Industry SHILLS sure do stick out in a crowd…
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Anybody not promoting their website.
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lmao
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clarification; “LMAO” @ dpl’s comment!!
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