SEAWATER 7.5 MILLION TIMES OVER LEGAL RADIATION LIMIT NEAR FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
April 5th, 2011Engineers also plan to build two giant polyester “silt curtains” in the sea to block the spread of more contamination from the plant.
Well, good luck with that.
I wonder: Is it even possible to entomb that thing in such a way that prevents the radioactive waste products from percolating into the ocean?
Via: Los Angeles Times:
The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish.
The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit.
The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, though Tepco has said that highly contaminated water has been leaking from a pit near the No. 2 reactor. The utility initially believed that the leak was coming from a crack, but several attempts to seal the crack failed.
i saw the “7.5 million times the legal limit” on the news tonight. i thought, “wtf???” but they hardly made much of a deal about it. ho hum. and, no, the silt curtain bs is just another PR ploy for the teevee audience. i’m dreading waking up one morning and finding out there’s been another massive steam explosion. but i am expecting it.
@tochigi – nice to hear from you. I can’t believe your are going through this trauma and are only saying wtf? Seems like there is no information as to what is truth or fiction re what the danger is as to being there. You are in my prayers Tochigi.
I do not know what radioactive cesium is. Is it a metal? Just don’t know.
I just bought some diameotaceous earth powder from Utah from listening to last weeks Solari report. I guess if I were in Japan I’d be getting me some and wouldn’t care if it were pure or not! Sounds like a great metal detoxifier. One tablespoon per day in a glass of water (without food -DE doesn’t distinguish between good or bad metal. Dim Earth.
Its normally used as an insect killer. But it is not a human manufactured poison.
The critters when crawling across it are scratched to death by the sharpness of the fiber.
I have sone here already and its kind of scary. Not something you want to inhale- but in a glass of water – interesting concept.