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Radioactive Tellurium-129m detected in seawater for first time — Short 34 day half-life indicates new leak, TEPCO says no

Published: July 1st, 2011 at 12:40 pm ET
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TEPCO denies new leak at Fukushima plant, Asahi, July 1, 2011:

Radioactive tellurium-129m was detected for the first time in seawater near the water intake of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant’s No. 1 reactor, Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant operator, said June 29.

Seven hundred and twenty becquerels of the substance was detected per liter of water collected on June 4. [...]

Tellurium-129m has a short half-life of about 34 days. Its detection near the intake indicates the possibility of a new leak of radioactive water into the sea. [...]

h/t Global Security Newswire

Published: July 1st, 2011 at 12:40 pm ET
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22 comments to Radioactive Tellurium-129m detected in seawater for first time — Short 34 day half-life indicates new leak, TEPCO says no

  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
    July 1, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    This might be the water of the overflowing storage tanks? Because the on-off-on-off-so-called-decontamination-machine not working?


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  • irradiated californian
    July 1, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    if there is no new leak…then maybe they are intentionally dumping stuff into the ocean and don’t want to admit it…hmm…


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  • theypoisonus
    July 1, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    I don’t think it is a ‘new leak’ .

    I think it has been leaking all along, only results either hidden or not even looked for.

    I trust Tempco ZIP along with the BOZO’s over here.

    JMHO


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  • odylan
    July 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    Water, water every where
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, every where
    Ne any drop to drink.

    The very deeps did rot: O Christ!
    That ever this should be!
    Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
    Upon the slimy sea.

    About, about, in reel and rout
    The Death-fires danc’d at night;
    The water, like a witch’s oils,
    Burnt green and blue and white.


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  • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky
    July 1, 2011 at 1:06 pm

    Cool, Odylan!…they used to require that piece
    in ninth-grade English class…
    and
    Yes, they have obviously been Cooling by flushing, flowing,
    the water out and down to wherever it falls, to the ocean,
    to the aquifer, to the sewers, to the sludgepits, no real
    filtration nor isolation of the radiaited waters.


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  • emac2
    July 1, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Isn’t there a constant underground flow of this cooling water they keep injecting? They are on the beach so that water goes directly into the ocean.


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  • shaktasna999
    July 1, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    Tepco itself has said that they have never contained the leaks. The schedule for containment is early 2012.


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    • Ariana
      July 1, 2011 at 1:52 pm

      Thanks Whoopie! I posted that one to fb so maybe some people will read it and wake up!


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    • theypoisonus
      July 1, 2011 at 3:57 pm

      Whoopie,
      I loved that article !! I have written family and friends about Nukishima, and they think I am exaggerating, or being, horrror, NEGATIVE.

      You would think even the word NUCLEAR would get a rise out of people, but there is total apathy unless MSM tells them. So.. I gave up.

      I did sent them that one, and told them she didn’t curse enough.. lol

      Thanks.


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  • Ariana
    July 1, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    Well, they don’t want to admit that they still have criticality going on, but we all know that is what is happening…


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    • radegan
      July 1, 2011 at 2:09 pm

      You get the star – if there was no ongoing fission, the isotope would be several half-lives weaker. Ongoing fission, ongoing leak. Ongoing lies.


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  • Ariana
    July 1, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    Sadly enough, all of those people who are being exposed to radiation will probably be used for medical experimentation. That is probably why the government doesn’t care who gets exposed; the more, the merrier.


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    • anne anne
      July 1, 2011 at 2:15 pm

      Medical experimentation: shades of Hitler’s Germany. Aren’t some of the pharmaceutical companies actually the same pharmaceutical companies under Hitler? Medical experimentation without the consent of an individual is strictly illegal and immoral.


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  • Mark
    July 1, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    Not really off-topic just be aware of who’s in charge

    More wikipedia, US has all reports and info from Nazi death camps don’t think Allies destroyed that info

    Bayer AG was founded in Barmen (today a part of Wuppertal), Germany in 1863

    The Bayer company then became part of IG Farben, a conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed a part of the financial core of the German Nazi regime. IG Farben owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[2] a chemical used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. During World War II, the company also extensively used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor camps, notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] When the Allies split IG Farben into several pieces after World War II for involvement in organized Nazi war crimes, Bayer reappeared as an individual business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in prison by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, was made head of the supervisory board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.[4]


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  • nomade
    July 1, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    Quote from that article:

    “Also on June 29, TEPCO announced that as of the day before about 121,000 tons of highly radioactive water was present at the No. 1 through No. 4 reactors at the plant, up 16,000 tons from the end of May.

    TEPCO said that moving forward, the new water purification system will cleanse 3,000 tons of radioactive water a week.

    The calculation is based on the system operating at 80 percent capacity. Actual utilization was only about 55 percent from June 17 to June 28.”

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    The quantity of water increased by 16,000 tons in one month (with reduced water injections)

    Assuming the system works at 80% capacity (which it doesn’t) Tepco says it will be able to treat 12,000 tons.

    So even if tepco achieved 80% efficiency (and pigs might fly) and even if it never ever rained again there, that still means 4000 tons more water to deal with every month.

    For how many years? How long does nuclear fuel take to cool down enough to no longer need water poured over it?


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  • CB CB
    July 3, 2011 at 8:44 am

    Wait, Tepco said no, there statements should be admissible in court. A reasonable person would have reason to believe that they are always honest.


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