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Japan: Fukushima Workers Doused by Contaminated Water Leak

2013-10-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Six workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have been doused in radioactive water, its operator says. The incident happened after a worker removed a pipe connected to a water treatment system at the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said. A senior official from Japan's nuclear watchdog said he did not believe the workers had received a "seriously troubling" dosage of radiation. Fukushima has been hit by a series of toxic water leaks in recent months. The plant was badly damaged...

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Another Fukushima Leak Likely Sends More Contaminated Water into Ocean

2013-10-03 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Another leak of radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear campus was reported Thursday, and some of the water may have have reached the plant's harbor on the Pacific Ocean. The water, which leaked out of a holding tank, contained 200,000 becquerels per liter of beta-emitting radioactive isotopes, including strontium 90. Levels of strontium 90 were found to be 6,667 times the legal limit, which is 30 becquerels per liter. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, said...

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Tokyo Electric says possibly contaminated water leaked at Fukushima

2013-10-01 06:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Tuesday that four tonnes of rainwater contaminated with low levels of radiation leaked during an operation to transfer the water between tank holding areas. Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, has been trying to contain contaminated water at the Fukushima site after it found 300 tonnes of radioactive water had leaked from a tank at the plant. Fukushima suffered triple nuclear meltdowns and hydrogen explosions after a March 2011 earthquake...

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Contaminated Feed Most Probable Cause of US PED Outbreak

2013-10-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

CANADA - A Quebec City based veterinary consultant says contaminated feed appears to be the most probably source of the outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea that has infected swine herds in 17 US states, according to Bruce Cochrane.

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