Wrecked Fukushima nuke plant leaking 330 tons of contaminated water a day
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday ordered increased efforts to stop radiation-contaminated water from spilling into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.
A government official told reporters Wednesday that an estimated 300 metric tons (330 tons) of contaminated water was leaking into the ocean every day from the Daiichi plant, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Reuters reported.
The official also said the government believed the leaks had been happening for two years.
Few people are granted access to the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, which remains abandoned and frozen in time on March 11, 2011 — the day a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami caused a triple nuclear meltdown in the city. Channel 4's Alex Thomson reports.
The plant’s operators Tokyo Electric Power Company has been building an underground wall by injecting “liquid glass” into the ground in an attempt to contain the contaminated water.
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Coal wins! 
Bananas? 
Now Ive heard it all. Thanks for explaining it. 
There was a woman that ate rocks constantly because she liked the crunch. 
Hey wait... I live in "The Granite State" AND I eat bananas! Guess that means Im completely screwn. 
Radioactivity is just one way.
I'm simple. If you are chaining yourself to the front gate of the nuclear power plant on Saturday, you ought to be chaining yourself to the front gate of the fossil fuel plant on Sunday. Otherwise it looks like you are working for the fossil fuel industry. "Clean" coal or natural gas is propaganda, it's not clean, it's toxic. Some anti-nuclear activists are actually paid by the fossil fuel industry, both directly and indirectly. The natural gas industry loves wind and solar because gas is the perfect back up fuel when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing. Look at public radio and television. They've largely been bought by the natural gas industry.
"Fracked" natural gas is a horrible fuel. The groundwater contamination in that industry is every bit as bad as the situation in Fukushimi, maybe worse. Same with coal.
To quit nuclear power, to quit fossil fuel power, you have to quit. It's like smoking. A pack-a-day smoker who adds a joint or two to his daily smoking routine is still a pack-a-day smoker.
That's the kind of thing Germany has accomplished with all their alternative energy schemes. They shut down the nuclear plants and they are building new coal plants. It's like they're saying, yep, I quit the oxycodone habit for black tar heroin and a few poppers. Yay!
I'm a Luddite. I think we should get rid of any high energy industry that's not directly related to food, shelter, medicine, and art. Our big box store automobile based "consumer" society needs to die. We can spin it down on our own terms or we can wait until mother nature takes us down the old-fashioned way.
The first alternative, doing it on our own terms, is preferable. By nature's rules, animals living unsustainable lifestyles simply die. Using our unusual brains we have a choice. We can figure out what is sustainable or we can die.
I'm not optimistic. I think our world civilization is going to die, and the human population will be greatly reduced in extremely unpleasant ways.
http://dieoff.org/page80.htm
All of our threads on the subject have been sinking like stones and M$Greedia is certainly not covering this topic on TV.
Some are still being repeated almost daily
I encourage those that think it's no big deal to head over and swim in the waters just offshore. When they're finished swimming, they can tour the plant.
Speak the truth long enough and hopefully someone listens...
