23 August 2013 (20:35 UTC-07 Tango 22 August 2013)/16 Shawwal 1434/01  Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

Two and a half years ago I wrote about radioactive water flooding into tunnels under the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.  I wrote about it because Tokyo Electric Power Company officials publicized it.   Turns out they haven’t done a gott damn thing about it, until today!!!!

Today TEPCo officials announced they are finally going to try and stop the estimated 210 metric tons per day of contaminated water flowing through a tunnel under Reactor 2, from getting to the Pacific Ocean.  TEPCo says that the reason they waited so long is because they didn’t think the water was pouring into the Pacific Ocean, well, it turns out it is!

So add that 21o tons per day to the previously announced 300 tons per day, then add that to the newly discovered storage tank leaks and you’re talking about more than 1-thousand tons per day of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean for the past two and a half years!   But it’s probably more, read on!

By the way, when I first wrote about radioactive water pouring into tunnels under the reactors more than two years ago, coupled with the fact that independent sources had discovered strontium contamination, I said that was a sign of melt down.  A year later TEPCo admitted melt downs had occurred.  These guys are supposed to be experts trained by General Electric???

But wait there’s more!  TEPCo says in all the tunnels under Fukushima Daiichi there’s at least 15-thousand tons of highly contaminated water, possibly pouring into the Pacific Ocean!!!

22 August 2013 (09:45 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic. What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else, not just from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that. It is much worse than we have been led to believe, much worse!”-Mycle Schneider, nuclear analyst in BBC interview

Inspections of storage tanks in Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 4 tank farm show the bolted together tanks are leaking radiation, even if they’re not leaking water!  The inspections were ordered by Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) after the 19 August discovery of a massive water leak.

The 300 metric tons of highly contaminated water that is now suspected of pouring into the Pacific Ocean, came from just one of the 350 Reactor 4 storage tanks.

On another Reactor 4 storage tank they discovered that the seams of the bolted on panels are emitting 70 to 100 millisieverts per hour of radiation!  The safe limit for nuclear industry workers in Japan are set at 50 millisieverts per year!  And here’s the rub on this latest discovery; the exterior of the tank is dry, and has not leaked any water.  This means that deadly radiation is escaping from the tank seams, and when it rains it runs off into the Pacific Ocean.  Each tank holds 1-thousand metric tons of contaminated water, and many have no external way to gauge the water level.

And don’t forget the new leak they discovered yesterday, at a different tank farm!

22 August 2013 (21:40 UTC-07 Tango 21 August 2013)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

After two and a half years of playing dumb, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has revealed that 10 trillion becquerels of deadly strontium, and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium, have flooded into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011!  The new report does not include March and April 2011!

Actually, anyone who’s been following my postings about Fukushima Daiichi (going all the way back to March 2011) should not be surprised.

The amount could be much higher as TEPCo officials admitted to Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, in an emergency meeting on 21 August, that they have not kept any official records of radiation emissions or contamination!!!  The NRA official responded by saying “So, you rely on the memory of your workers?”

21 August 2013 (16:09 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Shawwal 1434/30 Mordad 1392/15 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“If a leak occurred in one tank, we should assume that the same thing could happen at other tanks as well.”-Tanaka Shunichi, Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA)

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has revealed yet another radiation leak pouring into the Pacific Ocean!  The new leak was found in a runoff ditch about 50 meters (164 feet) from a contaminated water storage tank farm (complex), located on a hillside.  This is not in connection to the discovery on 19 August of a massive leak coming from the Reactor 4 tank farm.  TEPCo admits that this new leak is draining into the Pacific Ocean.  The water tested at six millisieverts per hour of radiation.

In another example of corporate incompetence,  TEPCo admitted they have not been monitoring leaking contaminated water storage tanks at the Reactor 4 tank farm!  Awhile back they knew about 350 1-thousand metric tons capacity tanks were leaking, but they dealt with it by building a short retaining wall around the tank farm, and then they basically forgot about it!

That is until 19 August when underpaid and undertrained workers discovered a 300 metric tons leak outside of the retaining wall!   Now workers, under guidance of the NRA, have confirmed at least four of the 1-thousand metric tons capacity tanks are leaking!

“The water is believed to contain thousands of trillions of becquerels of radioactive substances.”-NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

In a bid to gain some confidence, TEPCo officials announced that their Vice President, Aizawa Zengo, will take direct command of the ongoing nuke disaster.  Aizawa’s office will be moved to Fukushima Daiichi.