From
a couple of days ago, but very significant news
Radioactivity
levels in Fukushima groundwater increase 47-fold over 5 days
Radioactivity
levels soared 47-fold over just five days in groundwater from a
monitoring well on the ocean side of the crippled Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant, the plant operator said Aug. 5
6
August, 2013
.
Tokyo
Electric Power Co. said 56,000 becquerels of radioactive substances,
including strontium, were detected per liter of groundwater sampled
on Aug. 5 in the “No. 1-5” monitoring well, which is adjacent to
the turbine building for the No. 1 reactor. The previous measurement
for the well water was made on July 31.
Highly
radioactive water has been detected for some time in groundwater near
reactor and turbine buildings of the nuclear plant. A record high
level of 900,000 becquerels per liter was found in early July in
water taken from a different monitoring well.
TEPCO
has been struggling to deal with the enormous amounts of water used
to cool the damaged reactors and block the flow of contaminated water
into the ocean.
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