19 June 2013 (02:44 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Sha’ban 1434/29 Khordad 1392/12 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power company (TEPCo) reporting that high levels of strontium and tritium have leaked (yet again) from the GE designed reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.

This time strontium is being found in groundwater, at levels 30 times higher than Japanese government maximum safe limits.  Tritium is being found at eight times government safe limits.

They suspect the deadly contamination is coming from Reactor 2.  TEPCo admits strontium and tritium have been leaking for a awhile, but until now the levels of contamination have been below government limits.  TEPCo is unwilling to confirm if the isotopes have been contaminating the Pacific Ocean.

On top of that, TEPCo is trying to find out why a newly installed water decontamination system is already leaking.  Inspection teams discovered that a giant stainless steel tank was leaking radioactive water from a weld seam.  The water was being caught by a giant drip pan under the tank.

Upon inspection of the welds pin holes were discovered in many of the seams.  TEPCo is now trying to determine if the holes are manufacturing defects, or caused by something else.

Meanwhile, the Pacific Ocean current off Japan brings that stuff right to the Pacific Coast of North America.