Fukushima News 10/18/13

Published on Oct 18, 2013

High radioactivity found in Fukushima Daiichi well
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says that it has detected a sharp rise in radioactivity in a well near a storage tank.
The tank leaked more than 300 tons of contaminated water in August. Some of it is believed to have poured into the sea via a ditch.
Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company say that they detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances, including strontium, at the well on Thursday.
The level is 6500 times higher than the readings on the previous day.
The well was dug to monitor the impact of the leakage and is located at about 10 meters from the tank.
High levels of radioactive tritium, which tends to be transferred easily in water, had been already detected.
TEPCO officials believe Thursday's findings show that radioactive substances such as strontium, which are transferred relatively slowly, have reached the ground water.
There is another well about 100 meters from the tank near the seaside. It's for pumping up groundwater before it seeps into the reactor building and vicinity so as to contain the increase of contaminated water.
TEPCO will remove the contaminated soil around the tank and continue to closely watch radioactivity levels of the groundwater at the monitoring well.
Test-fishing begins off southern Fukushima
Fishermen are testing the waters off the southern coast of Fukushima Prefecture for the first time since the nuclear crisis began 2 years and 7 months ago.
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant forced a halt to local fisheries. Then in June last year test catches began off northern Fukushima.
TEPCO to contain tainted underground water
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it plans to take additional measures to contain the spread of contaminated water that leaked from a storage tank.
Tokyo Electric Power Company managers on Thursday announced they had detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances in water collected from a monitoring well.
They said the figure is more than 6,000 times higher than the level recorded the day before.
They also said the level of radioactive tritium also tripled to the highest-ever figure of 790,000 becquerels per liter.
The well is some 10 meters from a storage tank that holds radioactive water. More than 300 tons of the water leaked from the tank in August. Some of it is believed to have seeped into nearby soil and also reached the ocean through a ditch.
Japan to update tainted water info in Korean
Japan's Fisheries Agency is set to release multi-lingual information on the contamination of waters off the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
The agency currently discloses updates on its website about radioactive contamination of seawater surrounding the Fukushima plant.
Test fishing process in Fukushima
In the test fishing off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, fishermen are allowed to operate in limited waters and catch only certain types of seafood. This is to ensure the products' safety and win consumer trust..
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