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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Three years on from Japan's nuclear emergency, the fallout continues to spread

From: Herald Sun News

Three years on from Japan's nuclear emergency, the fallout continues to spread

  • JAMIE SEIDEL
  • NEWS LIMITED NETWORK
  • DECEMBER 09, 2013 4:15PM

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FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI REMOVE SECOND BATCH OF SPENT FUEL RODS0:40

TEPCO begins removing the second batch of spent fuel rods from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
    AUTOPLAY
    A TEPCO worker checking radiation around the contamination water tank at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Ok...
    A TEPCO worker checking radiation around the contamination water tank at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture. AFP / TEPCO Source: AFP
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    WELCOME to Fukushima, where the radiation's so bad it can be fatal within 20 minutes. The tsunami may have happened some 33 months ago, but the fallout just keeps getting worse.
    Japanese media is reporting that the intensity of radiation levels in the nuclear powerplant devastated by the earthquake - and subsequent tidal waves - of March 2011 is now at its highest levels ever.
    Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from around the Fukushima Daiichi plant following the disaster which sent three of its six reactors critical.
    The clean-up operation is expected to take decades but in the meantime:
    Big clean-up ... Inside the crippled No. 4 reactor.
    Big clean-up ... Inside the crippled No. 4 reactor. Source: AFP


    * Radiation contamination of the harbour alongside the plant is steadily rising;
    * Another earthquake could cause a disaster 10 times worse than that experienced in Chernobyl;
    * Somewhere to store thousands of tons of radioactive water needs to be found; and
    * Traces of radioactive caesium has been found in tuna migrating across the Pacific

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