It has been officially confirmed. The crippled Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan is leaking highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

It has been officially confirmed. The crippled Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan is leaking highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.

Nuclear-contaminated Pacific Ocean may become a global threat

Jul 24, 2013
It has been officially confirmed. The crippled Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan is leaking highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. This is continuing by the minute causing great concern not only for Japan, but for all nations bordering on the Pacific Ocean, including the United States, Canada, Russia and most Pacific Island nations. Officials finally admitted this alarming news for the first time.
Earlier this month the tourism industry in this Japanese regions seemed to be doing fine. A new scheduled Asiana Airlines Charter Flight arrived with Korean tourists at Fukushima Airport on July 13.
Tourists are supposed to enjoy playing golf and participants in the Oze trekking tour.
In the meantime there are more serious worries reported for this region and beyond.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, admitted the leakage to the ocean for the first time since a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant’s reactors in 2011.

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Fukushima operator TEPCO knew radioactive water was leaking into Pacific a month before going public

By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy

Updated Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:13am AEST

Map: Japan

It has been revealed that the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant knew about leaks of radioactive groundwater into the ocean a month before it publicly disclosed the problem.

Japan's nuclear watchdog has rebuked The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for its slack response to the leaks.
TEPCO admitted earlier this week that contaminated groundwater from the crippled Fukushima plant was leaching into the Pacific Ocean.

Audio: Tepco slammed over handling of leak (PM)

It has now been revealed that the plant operator knew about the problem a month ago, but despite that TEPCO continued to downplay any threat of radioactive run-off reaching the ocean.

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