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Fukushima water leak 'emergency'
2013-08-05 17:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Japan's nuclear watchdog has said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new "emergency" caused by a build-up of radioactive groundwater. A barrier built to contain the water could be breached in three weeks, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority warned. This meant the amount of contaminated water seeping into the Pacific Ocean could accelerate rapidly, it said. There has been spate of water leaks and power failures at the plant, devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Its...
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Fukushima radioactive water likely breached barrier: panel head
2013-08-05 10:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday. This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters. Countermeasures planned by Tokyo...
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Japan: Radioactive Fukushima groundwater rises above barrier: media
2013-08-03 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Radioactive groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier being built to contain it, highlighting the risk of an increasing amount of contaminated water reaching the sea, Japanese media reported on Saturday. The Asahi newspaper, citing data from a Friday meeting of a task force working on the Fukushima clean-up at Japan's nuclear regulator, estimated that the contaminated water could swell to the ground surface within three weeks. The latest revelation...
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Japan: Doubts cast over TEPCO's plan to block radioactive water at Fukushima plant
2013-08-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asahi Shimbun: After nearly 30 months of failure, Tokyo Electric Power Co. is still providing little reason for confidence in its ability to deal with the radioactive water leaking at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The utility continues to face criticism for its delay in releasing vital information about conditions at the crippled plant. Fishermen and residents have lost patience over the many setbacks in TEPCOs preparations to decommission the reactors. And now, the Nuclear Regulation Authority is raising...
Japan: Fukushima Fallout Hits Farmers
2013-07-30 10:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Life for Yoshihiro Watanabe and his wife Mutsuko, mushroom and rice farmers from Fukushima, has changed drastically since the disastrous meltdowns in the Dai Ichi nuclear plant that was hit by a massive tsunami after a 9.0 strong earthquake struck on Mar. 11, 2011. Dangerous levels of radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors have effectively forced us to stop our mushroom cultivation and reduced our farming income almost 80 percent, Watanabe told IPS. He added that the family is also taking...
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