11 September 2013 (17:23 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/20 Shahrivar 1392/07 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that radiation levels at a monitoring well, near the slowly melting down GE designed reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, has doubled since yesterday!

On 10 September, TEPCo reported 32-thousand becquerels per liter of contamination at a well 20 meters (65 feet) north of a leaking water storage tank (the reading was taken on 09 September).  Today, TEPCo says that same well is contaminated with 64-thousand becquerels per liter of tritium (from reading taken on 10 September)!

Also, soil samples around the well are emitting 0.1 millisieverts per hour of radiation.  This is significant because TEPCo claims they already removed contaminated soil from that area!

TEPCo also points out that the water test well is not located near any known groundwater source!

Another concern is that new testing of groundwater is revealing that the water is already contaminated before it reaches the failed nuke plant.  This negates TEPCo’s plans to build an underground dyke to block what they thought was clean groundwater.  (I’ve already written about independent testing that shows there is airborne contamination ongoing, which is ending up in lakes, rivers and canals, and eventually the groundwater)

More and more independent nuclear experts in Japan are concluding that massive radiation contamination of the environment has been ongoing since March 2011.  They are specifically concerned with spiking radiation levels in soil and test wells near Reactor 2.