Over 100,000 Tons of Polluted Water Seen at Fukushima N-Plant (May 17th) sent by ALCOY

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-05-18 08:47

Over 100,000 Tons of Polluted Water Seen at Fukushima N-Plant

Tokyo, May 18 (Jiji Press)--The total amount of radiation-contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan is estimated to top 100,000 tons, the company said Wednesday.
The amount includes some 7,500 tons of water that have already been removed from the No. 2 and No. 3 reactor buildings, company officials said.
At present, the combined amount of radioactive water at the power plant's No. 1 to No. 6 reactor facilities, including the basements of the reactor buildings and turbine buildings, stands at an estimated 98,500 tons, the officials said.
The No. 2 reactor facilities are estimated to have the largest amount of polluted water totaling 25,000 tons--6,500 tons in the basement of the reactor building, 13,000 tons in the turbine building basement and 5,500 tons in an underground tunnel, or trench, that stretches toward the ocean.
Radioactive substances continue leaking from the plant in Fukushima Prefecture since it was heavily damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

(2011/05/18-22:26)

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Oh geez...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2011-05-19 13:05.

The facts are hard to digest.

I wish we could do something. The ocean is our lifeline. The air is our lifeline. Clean water is our lifeline. The soil is our lifeline.

This planet is ours collectively.

It does not belong to the "corporations" that choose to rape and strip it down.

Mother Earth will take control of us and shake us up and then we will see that we have gone too far. No one can, and no corporation, will be able to escape her wrath in the end.