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Just in case you were wondering - no, Fukushima's Dai-ichi nuclear power generating facility isn't all it is cracked up to be.
According to results from a new probe at the facility, high radiation levels and a lack of much needed cooling water inside a reactor has caused quite the stir in the nuclear community about the plant's stability.
Dai-ichi was badly damaged after a 9.0 Magnitude earthquake spawned a massive series of tsunami waves that crashed atop the facility on March 11, 2011, that essentially took out power to much of the facility - power needed to control the nuclear reactors, causing, over the ensuing weeks, three near complete nuclear meltdowns. Instead, all that happened was the worst nuclear fiasco seen on the planet since Chernobyl in the Ukraine (a satellite of the former USSR) back in April of 1986.
TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) who both own and operate the Dai-ichi nuclear plant says an endoscopic examination detected radiation levels 10 times the fatal dose inside the No. 2 reactor’s chamber, suggesting challenges ahead in shutting down the facility.
The probe also found the containment vessel only contained about 60 centimeters of cooling water in it - far below the 10 meters the government declared was in it back in December of 2011.
Plant workers also reported fresh leaks of contaminated water from a water treatment unit, some flowing into the ocean.
There is no word on what the solution is to these problems, but you can bet that Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife will let you know. Or you can let me know.
Far too often when disaster hits, we only seem to think about loss in human terms. How many dollars (or Yen), who many people died or were injured, loss of income, or homes... but one year after the cataclysmic effects of the March 11, 2011 9.0 Magnitude earthquake, devastating tsuamni and subsequent radiation fears from near meltdowns at a nuclear power generating facility, it becomes increasingly obvious that we fail to note the effect it has all had on family pets and other animals.
While it is true that there has been immense human suffering in Japan, there is also an effect on the animals there.
I'm sure many of you have seen the touching scene after the tsunami of one dog refusing to leave his injured canine companion. It's heart-breaking, and lends new meaning to the term humane. I posted a link to this one back on March 18, 2011, but here's the video again:
Part of the problem arises after the disaster when human families were forced to seek habitation at a shelter - which not surprisingly do not allow pets. As such, these families were forced to leave their animal - pets - in animal shelters, where many still stay, awaiting the return of families or possible adoption.
There are currently two animal shelters still operating in Fukushima - both of which cater to larger dogs and a ton of cats. Many of the smaller dogs had long ago been transferred to animal shelters in Tokyo.
Every day, workers seek out lost animals in the area. When these rescued and/or captured animals are FIRST found, they are scanned by a Geiger counter for radiation exposure. After being cleaned,they are brought to one of these two shelters.
Because even one year later families are still awaiting word from the government on when they can return to their home in the currrent No Entry Zone, these people and animals remain separated. There are reports that it may take some 30 years to remove the effects of radiation from the environment, which is a fact many pet owners are not able to face. Despite this, pet owners are retaining the ownership rights to their animals, because for them, the act of holding on to their beloved pets with the goal of one day bringing them home is the last glimmer of hope for a return to normalcy.
Though the earthquake occurred last March, the shelter workers could not rest until August because of the amount of animals that needed rescuing. Combine that with the radiation warnings that were all the rage back then, shelter workers often came to work in full protective clothing. But at least they came.
While the Geiger counter readings of animals brought into the shelter were normal, they suspect it was because these animals were found outside the 20 kilometer zone.
But with that, shelter worker also believe that many more animals remained within the zone, unable to escape, as many families simply chained up their pets expecting to be back home in a day or two from the pet-free human shelters. Instead, many of the animals who were left behind have long since died from a lack of food and water. That is a harsh reality of the situation.
Even now, no one talks about the natural wildlife that existed in the affected areas. The government of Japan has talked about doing long-term studies on this topic, but as of yet, nothing has been done.
And yes... excluding the video, all of the animals in the photos above are current residents of an animal shelter in Fukushima. Now go hug your dog and/or cat.
Here's a video from Associated Press about the Town of Tomioka, Fukushima-ken, Japan that talks about its population of one. One lone farmer and a few of his animals.
The video does not really talk about what Tomioka's population was before March 11, 2011, but prior to that, the town had an estimated population of 15,839 with 6,293 households. In the map above, Tomioka is in black,
But, what the video does not go into much detail about, is how the town is the location of the Fukushima II Nuclear power plant (Dai-ni), not to be confused with the Dai-ichi plant that nearly went nuclear three times in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan. Both nuclear facilities are owned by TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company).
In the aftermath of the earthquake, all four of Dai-ni's nuclear reactors automatically shut down. Despite this, an evacuation order was issued to people within a three kilometer (1.9 mile) radius of the plant. It was eventually expanded to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), and was again superseded by the 20 kilometer evacuation zone due to the Dai-ichi (Fukushima I) power plant's nuclear mishaps.
Back on March 11, 2011, Dai-ni was hit by a 9.0 meter high tsunami wave while Dai-ichi was reportedly hit by a 13.0 meter high tsunami.
Tomioka, situated on the coast, was hit hard by the tsunami and 9.0 Magnitude earthquake. One year later on March 11, 2012, as the lone farmer will attest, residents are still not allowed back into the devastated area within the 20 kilometer radius.
Today, March 11, 2012 is the one-year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake, a 9.0 Magnitude shaker that devastated the northeastern coast of Japan and damn near everywhere else as well.
The earthquake spawned a tsunami that hit Japan at various heights (see the image above), and also caused power outages at the Dai-ichi nuclear power generating facility causing three nuclear reactors to almost go critical, but still spilled enough radiation into the water, air and land to cause immense damage to the country - physical, financial and emotional.
Despite the heavy loss of life and liberty, the people of Japan have retained its collective soul.
After many natural and unnatural disasters (like winning a sporting event), the populace goes crazy and tries to loot, or kill others... but not in Japan.
While civil disobedience does exist there - they are human after all - the Japanese were mostly calm and collected and did their best to help each other rather than just themselves.
For that... I am impressed.
There are other far more impressive places to read about what is going on right now to honor the dead during this trying anniversary, but this blog is not one of them. But, you still need to make sure that the information you get is correct.
I am not there. I have not been there in many, many years, though I often wish I was - especially during the crisis of March 11 and afterwards. I would love to have seen first-hand the courage of the Japanese people.
I have written about this tragedy throughout the past year, passing along second-hand information. It's there if you search it out. I've written about the science of earthquakes and tsunami culling the misinformation that the Internet is rife with and presented the facts as they are known. I have written about the mythology of earthquakes and tsunami, again culling the incorrect from various data sites to present only the facts as they are known. I've done decent job, I think, only having to be corrected a few times.
What's particularly galling to me now in 2012, is that until the March 11 disasters, I was content with putting out a blog nearly every day. But, climbing aboard the shoulders of Japan, I began putting out as many blog entries as possible.
It was NEVER to become popular, though I would love to be. That wasn't why I did it. I did just in case that ONE person reading my blog had never seen a story about Japan before. I wrote and continue to write for that ONE person. The fact that the ONE person has told a few friends is nice, but completely unexpected, so gaining popularity as a blogger has occurred.
The increased blogging has taught me how to use the Internet a bit better. But, more importantly, it has introduced me to some very interesting people... people who asked me to help find loved ones lost during the disasters, hoping I might have some better handle on helping look. And what do you know? I did. So did my friend Matthew Hall. Who knew?! We were able to help that someone track down friends in Japan. They were alive and well.
We were able to help ONE person.
The blogging thing has also led me to Mike Rogers... I have no idea who found whom first anymore, but I am glad to have met him, even if it is only through our blogs and e-mails.
Mike Rogers, my good friend, puts out the oft-bombastic Marketing Japan blog. He has told me he is driving out with a good friend of his today... into the danger zone... to do a second documentary on what life is like for the people there now.
He had previously done the impressive Ishinomaki - Black Water documentary, seen here below.
When Mike finishes the second video, I will post a link to it here.
In the meantime, here is the first documentary. It's well worth a look.
Ishinomaki - Black Water
Meanwhile, if you so desire, let me also guide you to a scary video of the March 11, 2011 tsunami. I've watched it many times over the past 366 days, and it still gives me chills and brings a tear or three to my eyes.
You can hear the terror in the people as they watch their city disappear - especially as they wonder if they are high enough and if all of the people running for their life made it to the hill. I don't think they did.
As an aside... the tsunami map up above while an earnest effort does not seem to match many eye-witness reports. Heck... even the Wikipedia entry on Minami Sanriku says the town was hit by a waves (plural!) as high as 16 meters (52 feet)! I only present it so that you can see that despite it being one whole year later, I still have NOT seen consistent data regarding the tsunami heights.
Check out this article I wrote: Dead Mayor Saves Town From Tsunami. Within the article, you'll note that a nearby town was destroyed after waves crashed OVER its 10 meter (33-foot high) floodgate! As well... many of the city's evacuation centers were situated some 20 meters ABOVE sea level, and were still inundated by the waves.
Take a look at the map above... it shows there was no wave higher than 9.3 meters.
Which is correct? I'm going to say the fact that a town was destroyed AFTER waves crashed OVER its 10 meter high floodgates would imply that the tsunami height image graphic above is incorrect.There's a lot of misinformation out there. Just be careful.
I'm a writer. I don't live in Japan any longer. But, it's gratifying to know one can still help.
March 11, 2012. Ganbatte kudasai, Nihonjin. (good luck/do your best, Japanese folk)
Somewhere doing some soul-searching, Andrew Joseph
According to some poorly worded lines your author has borrowed from the Interweeb, Japan's professional baseball league will hold an All-Star game in quake-hit Fukushima-ken in 2013 to help with the reconstruction of the area following last year's earthquake and tsunami.
While Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife is pretty sure it doesn't mean ball players will be constructing a home, it doesn't mean some won't. I've seen some pretty nice stuff come from professional athletes looking to give back to the community without it counting towards court-ordered community service.
According to (Japan) Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Kato Ryozo (surname first): "(This) will be the first time for Fukushima to host an All-Star game."
As most people should know, the March 11, 2011 9.0 Magnitude earthquake caused a huge tsunami which led to a near nuclear meltdown or three at the Fukushima-ken Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
As an aside, and probably because the Associated Press realized its story was way too short, the same article noted that The Japan Football Association is planning to hold a match in Fukushima-ken during this summer's Under-20 Women's World Cup. That's 'football', as in 'soccer'.
Compiled by Andrew Joseph
By the by... nice cubs on the Hanshin Tigers fan above. They used to be my favorite team until Nomo Hideo (surname first) started playing for the Kintetsu Buffaloes (Cecil Fielder's team - father of MLB star Prince Fielder), which no longer exist, and now are the Orix Buffaloes... whatever happened to the Orix Blue Wave (Suzuki Ichiro's [now on Seattle Mariners of MLB] first team)?
Oh well... maybe I'll cheer for the Hanshin Tigers fan.
Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife isn't sure if the timing of all of this is coincidental or not, what with the one year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake coming up on March 11, but the story below does smack of greed.
Let's take a brief look. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) Inc. - the private firm that owns and operates the Fukushima-kenDai-ichi nuclear power generating plant - is being sued by 42 shareholders for ¥5.5 trillion (~Cdn/US $67 billion).
Let's look at that number for a second... wow. That is $1,595,238,095.24 (¥130,050,387,316) each. One and a half BILLION effing dollars. For each shareholder suing.
Granted 80% would go to the lawyers, but what greed!
The Dai-ichi plant, after a 9.0 Magnitude earthquake caused a massive tsunami to knock out power to it, nearly had three nuclear meltdowns over the ensuing weeks - arguably the worst nuclear accident in the past 25 years, causing TEPCO to incur huge costs to try and right the problem, clean-up, decommission the plant and provide slow-giving compensation to people and businesses affected by problems.
The filed lawsuit points to 27 specific current and former TEPCO directors, saying they ignored multiple warnings of a possible tsunami, and by doing so failed to adequately prepare for the likelihood of a disaster. And that is what well-dressed lawyers for the shareholders said in a released statement on March 5, 2012.
While this blog admires their greed (how do I get me some?), this lawsuit against TEPCO is akin to kicking a dog when it's already dead and run over on the street.
Yes... TEPCO will no longer be pumping electrical power out for the people of Japan because the plant is now ruined. That means shareholders won't be making any money.
Hell... I'd be pissed, too... but $1.5 billion pissed? I'm pissed off a lot lately and I still can't see myself being so bloody angry or greedy to even contemplate a number like this. Wow.
Just to give you a ,peek on what shareholders might be thinking: did you know that by March 15, four days after the 2011 tsunami et al, TEPCO shares dropped more than 62 per cent of its value? Owtch! Of course, two days after that, TEPCO stock was up 14.9 per cent after hopes were raised that the nuclear problem would be too bad at all - that everything would be contained. Needles to say, TEPCO stock has been up and down (mostly down) the entire year.
What? Did you think the people doing the suing were thinking about the Japanese people in the Tohoku region who have lost family, friends, life, business, livelihood, their way? Nah. But $1.5 billion should assuage the guilt.
Here's a story from the February 29, 2012 National Post newspaper (Canada) that I read while having my fifth coffee yesterday. I don't drink coffee, but it's free at work... and dammitt, I'm tired... hell, I'm writing this at 1:15AM!
Anyhow, the story written by Peter Goodspeed describes how Japan feared something called the devil's chain reaction - basically, a worst case scenario of nuclear accidents. It also describes the actions of politicos and TEPCO's and how lucky the whole damn country was it didn't end up glowing like a gaijin (foreigner) getting laid for the first time in Japan.
Check it out. It's not an opinion piece, but is based on a 400-page report issued by a team of 30 investigators assembled by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.
Cheers Andrew Joseph PS: The photo above has absolutely nothing to do with the story... it's a devil's reaction to chains... it was the best I could do.
Here's an article about how far radiation from Fukushima's Dai-ichi (Big One) nuclear power generating facility has spread after the events of March 11, 2011 caused several near meltdowns at the plant.
It's an Associated Press article written by Brian Skoloff and Malcolm Ritter. In it, we discover that radiation up to 1,000 times higher than the expected norm has been detected as far away as 643 kilometers (400 miles) away from the nuclear reactor.
Once again, there are reports coming from Japan of leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant - some two months after TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) declared it stable. According to TEPCO spokesperson Matsumoto Junichi (surname first), the Dai-ichi (Big One) plant that was first badly damaged in the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 9.0 Magnitude earthquake and massive tsunami, was leaking from a reprocessing unit tank which released beta radiation - the stuff that can cause radiation sickness. The problem was stopped after workers tightened a few bolts on the tank. As well, TEPCo says 8.5 tons of radioactive water had leaked out earlier in the week after a pipe came loose at Unit 4, one of Dai-ichi's six reactors. A previous estimate of the leak said only a few gallons had leaked out. While TEPCO officials are looking into what caused the pipe to become detached, Matsumoto did state it was not due to any earthquakes or after shocks. So, it may just be worker error (my opinion). The structural integrity of the damaged Unit 4 reactor building has long been a major concern among experts because a collapse of its spent fuel cooling pool could cause a disaster worse than the three reactor meltdowns that had occurred in the weeks following the earthquake.
Hi all... The year 2011 has been a real bugger for the people of Japan - especially those on the north east coast.
Here's a piece my wife found on the Toronto Star newspaper website that gives some info on Fukushima and some of the effects from the nuclear disaster that hit following the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
Here's a story I saw in The Japan Times a few months ago, but didn't feel like posting until now. I'm not sure why!
Yanada Asaka, 15, and a high school student from Kamai-shi (Kamai City), Iwate-ken (Iwate Prefecture), ran as fast as she could toward a hill for two kilometers while also urging elementary school kids along when the massive tsunami wave(s) engulfed her hometown back on March 11, 2011.
As a survivor, Yanada participated in the Tohoku Future Leaders Summit held this past October 28-30, 2011 at the National Olympics Memorial Center in Tokyo.
The summit/camp was organized by the Global Fund for Education Assistance and supported by Japan's Cabinet office and the Ministry of Education, Cultures, Sports, Science and Technology. They have formed the Beyond Tomorrow project to support the young victims of the disaster who, despite great adversity, did not lose hope and continue to embrace a dream to give back to society in the future.
Yamada believes that Japan's cities need to be rebuilt with well-thought out evacuation protocols and clear routes and signs as key aspects to reducing the impact of future calamities.
She says: "As a junior high school student, I could bear it, but I thought it was too much for seven to nine-year-olds to run for two kilometers (that quickly to get high enough to survive the tsunami)."
Yanada was one of 70 high school students from Miyagi-ken (Miyagi Prefecture), Iwate-ken and Fukushima-ken (Fukushima Prefecture)o take part in the program to discuss how to rebuild and revitalize their shattered hometowns.
Students were divided into 10 groups to prepare four-minute presentations on the final day, with some of them staying up until 3AM locked in a heated discussion.
Yanada's group, which was chosen by judges as the best among the 10 groups, proposed that more direction boards showing evacuation routes be erected, and they must be easy to understand for first-time visitors and foreigners.
Her group focused on preparing for evacuation because it may be impossible to relocate all houses and other structures to high ground from coastal areas, according to a male student. "When a tsunami comes, all we can do is evacuate," he says.
To be better prepared for a disaster, all quake-prone cities should hold emergency drills more often and should involve people of all ages.
Other groups made proposals on creating jobs in the Tohoku region, the area hit hardest by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and later the lengthy evacuation order due to radiation concerns from an out-of-control nuclear reactor in Fukushima-ken. The plan calls for revitalizing the agricultural sector, providing emotional support for quake and tsunami survivors and sharing their experiences of the disaster on websites.
The proposals were presented to national strategy minister Furukawa Motohisa (surname first) in November, 2011, and while none of these ideas may ever see the light of day, Tsubouchi Minami (surname first), executive director of the Global Fund for Education Assistance, says she hoped the students will one day become leaders of Japan and put their ideas into action.
"We hope to support the students (from Tohoku) until the point they can take leadership roles and contribute to the country in a broader sense, not just for Tohoku's reconstruction," Tsubouchi says.
The Global Fund for Education Assistance is supported by young executives such as James Kondo, head of Twitter Japan, Iwase Daisuke (surname first), executive vice-president of Lifenet Insurance Co., and Oisix Inc. founder and chief executive officer Takashima Kohei (surname first). The fund provides full scholarships for 10 university students a year from the Tohoku region.
The emphasis is on nurturing young leaders because "we were concerned that there is a lack of young people who can take leadership roles in Japan in the first place," Tsubouchi says.
"But the students who were forced into an unimaginable situation are more likely to stand up for other people and take actions to make a difference," she adds.
The students were chosen from among 222 applicants between 15- and 18-years-old who survived the quake. Some lost family members in the disaster.
Abe Naho (surname first), 18, lost her mother in her hometown of Kesennuma-shi (Kesennuma City), in Miyagi-ken, one of the hardest-hit areas. Abe and her mother evacuated to a school on a hill, but the tsunami swallowed them up nonetheless as they tried to run from the sea.
"It was so dark in the muddy water that I couldn't see anything, and there was so much water pressure that I couldn't move my arms and legs," Abe explains. "I tried to bear it, but soon I couldn't breathe. I gave up hope of living while swallowing the muddy water."
However, she said, a miracle occurred. She was pushed to the surface by a car in the water. Unfortunately, the miracle didn't extend to her mother.
"I can't feel happy at all by the fact that only I survived," she says with regret. "If we had gone to a shopping center like my mother had suggested, we might have both survived. If we had run in a different direction, or if I could have been able to grab the hand of my mother who was only a meter away from me."
In the ensuing eight months, it has only been now that Abe has been able to talk with teenagers with similar experiences, explaining why the camp was a great opportunity for her to share her experience and discuss with other teens what they can do to rebuild Tohoku.
"There was no chance for me to talk about the disaster with high school students. So the best thing was that I met people who were in a similar situation and made friends with them," she states.
Abe said she is determined to contribute to the Tohoku reconstruction, especially after participating in the program. Her dream is to work at a hospital in Miyagi-ken as a clinical engineer after studying at a university in Tokyo and dedicate herself to helping others.
Meanwhile, Sugawara Sayaka (surname first), 15, says she appreciates the opportunity to learn what she should do to help rebuild the region. "Before the program, I didn't know what to do on my own even if I wanted to. I used to think, 'I'm only a high school student.'"
Sugawara, who survived the tsunami slamming into Ishinomaki-shi (Ishinomaki City), Miyagi-ken, says she wants to help people who have suffered a traumatic experience like she did.
"I want to discover a lot of things only I can do, and gain more than what I have lost in the disaster."
The truth about the ear-less rabbit found in Fukushima-ken near the damaged Dai-ichi nuclear facility last summer. I published that story HERE.
As usual... Mike Rogers in his fantastic blog: Marketing Japan, has already written about it.
I was going to do a short eared piece today to discuss my views on the way people panic, but Mike has done a very good job of it himself.
Briefly... rabbits missing ears or missing a foot or a person for that matter are just a part of life on this planet. Sometimes a creature or person or plant is born different. Sometimes mitigating factors like bad radiation or other caustic chemicals can be the cause, but sometimes it's just Mother Nature and genetics making a mistake.
Finding a single rabbit without ears is one thing - but finding a whole colony of rabbits and or all of the young rabbits born this summer missing ears or other parts - then I would say there was a problem.
Regardless... please give Mike's column a read. WHAT?
My apologies for fear-mongering. It wasn't completely my intent. I was posting my rebuttal of the last blog this morning (my time).
Matthew Hall - who should probably get a by-line for being a part of most of these blogs, has sent me a link to a story about Cesium (a radioactive element) being found in milk powder sold by the Meiji milk supplier prompting a massive recall. How did it get there? You can bet it has something to do with the radiation concerns following the near meltdown of a few nuclear reactors at the privately-owned TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company)Dai-ichi nuclear facility in Fukushima-ken (Fukushima Prefecture), Japan.
I'm not one for rumour mongering, but I found a piece at the website www.fukushima-diary.com site, with some translated Twitter tweets from 'an actual Fukushima worker' about how the water purification system at the Dai-ichi (Big One) nuclear reactor in Fukushima-ken (Fukushima Prefecture) has never worked.
I do want to go on record here as stating that nowhere in the article does it state that the person providing the tweets is an actual Fukushima nuclear reactor worker.
I'm just saying, is all.
Over this past weekend, apparently some 220 tons of highly radioactive water leaked, with a guesstimate of 45 tons leaking into the adjacent Sea of Japan.
The leak occurred after the failure of a water purification system.
Here are the tweets (in Japanese and then in English) from a Fukushima worker named Happy20790. Interesting in that his handle is in English, but okay... the (brackets) in the English translation are my own.
12/5/2011 Happy20790 ハッピー ただいまっ(^O^)今日は月曜日でお疲れ気味でし。汚染水処理システムも色々ガタが出てきました。昨日はたまたま建屋の外に汚染水が漏れたから報道あったけど…、最近いろんな場所でよく漏れてるんだ。 建屋って報道で言ってるけどコンクリートで基礎の土間を打って固めた場所に蛇腹ハウス建ててその中に装置があるんだ。装置稼働した初期も漏れたから途中からハウス内に堰を作ったんだ。堰の高さは20センチくらいかなぁ…。 オイラは最近蛇腹ハウスの中は線量高いから入ってないけど、前は水中ポンプで漏洩水を片付けたよ。だけどβ線量が高いからいつもより注意が必要なんだ。今回もβ線110mSv/hって報道してたけど、もっと高い場所もあるんだ。 蛇腹ハウスのコンクリート土間もまだ新しくて半年位しかたってないんだけど、突貫工事の短期間でコンクリート流して十分な乾燥期間もなくて装置設置してハウス組立たから割れが出たんだね。他の棟もひび割れてるかもしれないなぁ…。 各メーカーは通常の契約とは違って装置の運転やメンテナンス契約してないから装置設置して東電に納入したら完了で、あとは東電社員や直営企業で作業してるんだ。手に負えない時はメーカー使ってるけどね。ここにも予算の弊害があると思うんだけど…。 前にもつぶやいたけど、汚染水処理システムはまともな設計期間もなく応急処置で集めたり作ったものだから、早く恒久的な対策を取り入れて汚染水を完全に浄化するシステムを伴った海洋投棄システム作らなきゃダメだと思うんだ。 :側溝の事も前につぶやいたけど、早く今の側溝は流れて行かないようにつぶすか、下流に受けタンク設置して処理システムの一部に加えないとダメなんだ。雨が降ると地面の汚染も草木についた汚染も側溝から海に流れてしまうよ(;_;) メーカーや作業員は減ってきてるけど、東電は行き当たりばったりの何か問題あったら対処する今のままじゃなくて、常に先手を打って欲しいんだけどね。今日は新たなプロジェクトの話したかったけど、またね。 English Translation: The contaminated water leaks a lot recently. This time, it went out of the “building” so it was reported but actually it happens frequently. I called it “a building”, but it’s actually a temporary tent on a temporary concrete basement. It leaked from the first operation, so they made a tiny dam in it. Maybe it’s only 20cm high. I don’t (enter) get into the tent recently because it’s too radioactive, but I used to pump up (the) leaked contaminated water. The contaminated water emits a lot of beta ray (beta radiations), so you need to be careful. This time, Tepco’s (Tokyo Electric Power Company) spokesman said it was 110 mSv/h, but it is higher at some points. The concrete basement was constructed really urgently. They built the tent even before the concrete dried so it got cracked already. Other tent may have the same problems too. Unlike our ordinary contract, makers only set the facility, they don’t take responsibility of handing or maintenance. As I tweeted before, this water purifying system is not a long-lasting system. It is a temporary system without proper planning process. In order to release cooling water to the sea, we must install more proper (a better) facility. Now the gutter is directly connected to the sea. They must be shut down or a dam must be made. Currently every time it rains, radiation on the ground and radiation stuck to the plants flow(s) into the sea directly. Makers (Builders) and workers are already withdrawing from Fukushima plants, but Tepco has no long term plan. They need to predict the future risk and prevent it from happening in advance.
And there you have it. Real? Fake? Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife has no clear-cut way of knowing, but a large amount of radioactive water DID spill into the Sea this weekend. The Dai-ichi nuclear power facility does have problems.
Hopefully for all involved, they solve them. Quickly.
News from Japan suggests that the once-badly damaged Dai-Ichi (Big One) nuclear power generating plant in Fukushima-ken (Fukushima Prefecture) may have leaked some 45 tons of highly radioactive water from a purification device into the ocean this past weekend, according to TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), the private owners of the facility.
Read that story HERE from the Toronto Star newspaper.
As such - being back-logged with homework from work and family commitments (just commit me now!), here's a piece from my alma mater, the Toronto Star newspaper that appeared a few days ago about how Japan is going to deal with the clean-up of the radioactive contamination that afflicted the northeast coast of the country following the Fukushima nuclear accident that nearly rivaled (or surpassed, depending on your point of view) the Chernobyl accident back in the 1980s.
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