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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Japan Resumes Pumping Radioactive Water Into Nearby Sea

Alright so they just keep cycling water in and out of the nuclear reactors, each time the water is progressively millions of times more contaminated than the next. coupled with the fact that there are obviously cracks in the containment pits that have been leaking radioactive water into the environment the whole time, this makes Chernobyl Peanuts.
And what the hell do they think this is going to do to the Ocean?

VOA
Nuclear technicians have resumed pumping radioactive water from Japan's crippled nuclear plant into the nearby ocean, where radioactivity levels several million times the allowable limit are now being reported.

Officials with the Tokyo Electric Power Company said 2,800 tons of radioactive water had been pumped into the sea from a temporary storage facitily by 9 a.m. Tuesday. The company plans to empty 10,000 tons of water from the tank to make room for water that is much more highly contaminated and preventing repair work at the plant.

Another 1,500 tons is being pumped from two nearby buildings.

Japan's NHK Television meanwhile reported that radioactive iodine levels were measured Saturday in the sea near the Fukushima plant's Number 2 reactor at levels more than 7 milliion times the legal limit. Another measurement on Monday morning found levels at 5 million times the legal limit.

Both measurements were taken before the deliberate pumping began. The intense contamination is believed to be coming from a maintenance pit next to the number two reactor, which has filled with water after weeks of efforts to keep nuclear fuel rods in the plant's six units from overheating. Repeated efforts to seal the leak have failed.

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