Fukushima radioactive groundwater readings rocket

[AsahinaKimi]

TOKYO (AFP) —

Toxic radioactive substances in groundwater at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have rocketed over the past three days, its operator said, admitting it did not know where the leak was coming from.

Samples taken on Monday showed levels of possibly cancer-causing caesium-134 were more than 90 times higher than they were on Friday, at 9,000 becquerels per litre, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) revealed.

Levels of caesium-137 stood at 18,000 becquerels per litre, 86 times higher than at the end of last week, the utility said.

“We still don’t know why the level of radiation surged, but we are continuing efforts to avert further expansion of contamination,” a TEPCO spokesman stated.

Government guidelines permit caesium-134 and -137 at 60 becquerels per litre and 90 becquerels per litre respectively.

Once ingested, the substances accumulate in muscle and bone and are believed to cause cancers.

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[Eddie Haskell]

1. Once ingested, the substances accumulate in muscle and bone and are believed to cause cancers.

Believed to cause cancers?

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. The Pacific Ocean is screwed!

Why all the nations on the Pacific Rim have not gotten together to form a massive effort to work on this problem is astonishing to me.


It would seem that the fishing industries of the Pacific Rim are looking at the end of days. This material, I believe will accumulate in the fish and then in whoever ingests them.

[madokie]

4. With todays technology is there anything they can do?

The time to do something had passed a long time ago, like before they were built. Accidents happens and with nuke plants the accident can be deadly for years to come. It was inevitable that something like this would ultimately happen. Until they know exactly what to do in all circumstances they should not have been allowed to build the plants to begin with.

[BlueToTheBone]

6. Make that GENERATIONS to come.

100 thousand years of a half life. The planet is in deep peril.

[byeya]

7. The higher on the fod chain the species feeds, the greater the level of radiation it will have.

Our wonderful Pacific salmon spend most of their lives in the open ocean and will return radioactive.
Herring, not as much.

[marmar]

3. k/r

[malaise]

5. Good effin' grief

Well we were warned ages ago

[RobertEarl]

8. Where is this coming from?

It has been suggested that at least one of three of the reactor cores did melt through the structures built to hold water and the cores. That the cores were so hot burning right through the metal and concrete under the cores took just hours.

Having burned through that mass, the cores entered the ground at somewhere around 5000 degrees. Five thousand degrees.

Having entered the ground they came in contact with the ground water which was then became polluted by the nuclear fission cores.

That ground water has now reached the ocean.

Also, there has been much water pumped over the melted cores. Engineers have been wondering where that water traveled. Now they know.