Fukushima

The Fukushima plant is the same design as Vermont Yankee and Pilgrim in Plymouth.

 

Greg Palast

Fukushima Radiation Levels '18 Times Higher' Than Previously Thought ~ via BBC

Radiation levels around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned.

Last week the plant's operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground....

It now says readings taken near the leaking tank on Saturday showed radiation was high enough to prove lethal within four hours of exposure...

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) had originally said the radiation emitted by the leaking water was around 100 millisieverts an hour.

However, the company said the equipment used to make that recording could only read measurements of up to 100 millisieverts.

The new recording, using a more sensitive device, showed a level of 1,800 millisieverts an hour.

Read the full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23918882#See More

Fukushima Radiation Readings 18 Times Higher --Highly radioactive water dripping from a pipe used to connect two coolant tanks patched using tape 01 Sep 2013 An operator at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan says radiation readings are 18 times higher than previously measured. The staff member said they had found highly radioactive water dripping from a pipe used to connect two coolant tanks and that it had been patched using tape. The discovery of the pipe came a day after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said it found new radiation hotspots at four sites around coolant tanks, with one reading at 1,800 millisieverts per hour -- a dose that would kill a human left exposed to it in four hours. Last week the plant operator admitted 300 tonnes of toxic radioactive water had seeped out of one of the vast containers - one of around 1,000 on the site - before anyone had noticed.