ALERTS!!!!

“The number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard—and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby—who may be born long after we are gone—should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.”

John F. Kennedy, July 26th, 1963

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

TEPCO says additional radioactive leaks found in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

FROM: JDP

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the utility operator of the crippledFukushima Daiichi nuclear plant announced on Tuesday that it had found additional leaks at the No. 1 reactor. This is in addition to the previous ones discovered last December 21 and 22.
They suspect the leaks in two areas around the storage tanks that contain contaminated water because the water levels were lower upon inspection. One of the bounded areas had 12 centimeter deep water on December 20, but by the 24th it was reduced to 5 centimeters. The other area also had 12 centimeters on the 20th but by the 24th had only 1 centimeters of water. These areas are separate from the two areas that had water leaks the previous week.
The latest incident may have leaked around 225 tons of radioactive water...


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