8/9/2013 Taiwan says nuclear plant may have leaked toxic water

Source: Reuters
Date: Fri Aug 9, 2013 2:09am EDT

An employee inspects a water-gate, which is designed to block a tsunami, during a safety drill at the First Nuclear Power Plant in Shihmen, northern Taiwan in this September 4, 2012 file photo.

Credit: Reuters/Pichi Chuang/Filers

(Reuters) - A nuclear power plant in Taiwan may have been leaking radioactive water for three years, according to a report published by the government's watchdog, adding to uncertainty over the fate of a new fourth nuclear power plant.
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Editor's Note: Map of the Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant appears below.

11/11/2013 Radioactive water leak shuts down SC reactor.

Source: Reuters via The State
Date: November 11, 2013

Oconee Nuclear Station, Seneca (Oconee County, South Carolina)  Credit:Wikipedia

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A small radioactive water leak prompted Duke Energy to shut down a reactor Monday at the Oconee Nuclear Station in South Carolina.

Utility officials said the leak in Unit 1 poses no danger, but it is the second time in less than three weeks a problem has shut down a reactor at the nuclear plant near Seneca built 40 years ago.

Engineers first noticed the possibility of the leak Friday in the airtight, steel-lined concrete containment building designed to prevent any radiation from leaking into the air or ground. They spent the weekend trying to pinpoint its location and severity, Duke Energy spokeswoman Valerie Patterson said.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/11/11/3092094/radioactive-water-leak-shuts-down.html#storylink=cpy

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10/17/2013 Toxic flush: Typhoon causes radioactive leaks at Fukushima

Source: Russia Today 
Date: 10/17/2013 15:34

AFP Photo / Japan Pool via JIJI Press Japan out

A powerful typhoon which swept through Japan led to highly radioactive water near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant being released into a nearby drainage ditch, increasing the risk of it flowing into the sea.
On Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, said it had detected high levels of radiation in a ditch leading to the Pacific Ocean, and that it suspected heavy rains had lifted contaminated soil.

Workers say that Strontium-90 – a radioactive isotope of the alkaline earth metal strontium produced by nuclear fission – along with other isotopes that emit beta rays measuring 1,400 becquerels (Bq) per liter were detected in the ditch, which is located about 150 meters from the ocean, The Asahi Shimbun reported.
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Editor's Note: See more video reporting below concerning Typhoon Wipha and the radioactive water.

8/19/2013 Can an Ice Wall Stop Radioactive Water Leaks from Fukushima?

Source: National Geographic
Date: 8/19/2013
by: Patrick J. Kiger

A diagram shows how ground-freezing technology could be used to keep radioactive water from leaking at Fukushima.

Diagram by Reuters

As contaminated groundwater continues to flow from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese government has come up with a last-ditch solution that sounds like something out of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones: An underground wall of ice that would stop the radioactive leakage.
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Editor's Note: See also the following articles about the Fukushima Daiichi ice wall.

8/30/2013	MIT Technology Review	How the Fukushima Ice Barrier Will Block Radioactive Groundwater
8/29/2013	WSJ: Japan Realtime	Fukushima Watch: Previous Experiments With Ice Walls

8/3/2013 Spill-over threat: Fukushima radioactive groundwater rises above barrier level

Date: August 03, 2013 17:05
Source: Russia Today

Covers are installed for a spent fuel removal operation at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's unit 4 reactor building (C) in the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on June 12, 2013. (AFP Photo)

Radioactive groundwater at the Japanese crippled nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier built to try and contain it – with risks of spilling over and reaching the ocean, Japanese media report.
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Editor's Note: Below is a map of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant, which includes news reports from the original disaster.

7/23/13 Deplorable Radiation Surges & TEPCO Lies More!

Source: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 7/23/2013

Video Description

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Industry ministry official slams TEPCO

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
TEPCO shows media work to harden soil, halt leak

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Suga: TEPCO must stop leak quickly

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Fishermen in Fukushima angry at TEPCO over leak

Decontamination slow, effectiveness in doubt
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Nuclear regulator rebukes TEPCO

Experts estimate decontamination costs at $50 bil. (it's Now uploaded in video form on NHK since I finshed rendering project)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Govt. report urges fiscal reconstruction

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Nuclear regulator delays safety inspections

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Business groups react to Abe's election victory

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
China environment fair features Japan technology

this one is new since I finished rendering project:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...
Radioactive materials found near Fukushima Daiichi

Highly radioactive materials have been found in a town near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The plant operator says they are likely to have been contaminated in the March 2011 nuclear accident.
Four radioactive substances were found last month and this month on the riverbed of the Ide River that runs through Naraha Town in Fukushima Prefecture.
Tokyo Electric Power Company checked the radioactive cesium in the materials. The utility says the ratio of cesium 137, whose half-life is about 30 years, is higher than that of cesium 134, whose half-life is about 2 years.
TEPCO says a similar ratio is found in materials detected more than 2 years after radioactive contamination.
The company says it is trying to identify the substances. It is not known why they were discovered about 15 kilometers from the nuclear plant.
TEPCO officials say it is possible they were blown by hydrogen explosions in the 2011 disaster or were emitted by the plant around that time.

important video:
BBC: It's Boiling Inside Fukushima Unit No. 3 (with MOX Fuel) !
http://youtu.be/AmtvUWYHrDg

Latest Headlines: http://enenews.com/

Gizmodo: Entirely possible leaking nuclear material from Fukushima is going to U.S. and Canada — Bloomberg: "Fish contamination concerns have spread beyond Japan"

Senior Japan Officials: Nuclear material flowing into ocean a 'grave matter' — Situation at Fukushima is 'deplorable' (VIDEO)

BBC: It's boiling inside Fukushima Unit No. 3 — Reactor supposed to be in cold shutdown — Situation 'worrying'

AFP: 'Fukushima reactor site engulfed by steam' — Kyodo: 'Something like steam' coming from unknown source at Unit No. 3 — Tepco: 'Continuously wafting through the air' — Work to remove rubble suspended

Japan Times: 'Fears marine life is being poisoned' by nuclear material flowing from Fukushima — Experts warn of 'festering radioactive sore' contaminating food chain — Tepco flip-flop 'shocking'

Gundersen: Fukushima tanks releasing x-rays in very high quantities offsite — Exposure to people outside plant is very, very high from 'Bremsstrahlung' phenomenon — Hundreds of tanks could easily start leaking after quake (VIDEO)

"Worrisome" spike in deadly birth defects around leaking U.S. nuclear site — Officials claim "it could be a complete coincidence" — No news reports mention it's by the most contaminated area in Western Hemisphere #Hanford

AP: Tepco admits radioactive water is flowing into Pacific from Fukushima plant — AFP: Experts warn of effects on humans; "Fears of ocean contamination"

'Fukushima cancer risk surges' — Ongoing saga at nuclear plant 'dangerously murkier' — Over 10 times more workers suffered cancer-inducing radiation doses than Tepco admitted

AFP: Steaming Fukushima reactor is 'baffling' — Tepco: We still don't know what caused it and are currently investigating

songs by HumbleHorsemen "when the bombs fall" on soundcloud
and
Jonathan Mann on YouTube SongADayMann Sick and your monster's come to life

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5/5/2013 Palisades Nuclear Power Plant shuttered again for more repairs

Source: The Holland Sentinel
Date: 5/5/2013

Palisades Nuclear Power Plant near South Haven. Contributed

South Haven —
Operators of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan removed it from service Sunday morning because of a water leak from a tank, which last year caused seepage into the control room.
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Editor Note: Map of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in South Haven, MI shown below.

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8/12/2012 Palisades Nuclear Generating Station Near Safe Haven, Michigan Shuts Down

Source: Fox 17, Our West Michigan
Date: 9:45 a.m. EDT, August 12, 2012

Video Description
COVERT, Mich.— The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Van Buren County has been shut down again.
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Report continues here: http://www.fox17online.com/news/fox17-palisades-nuke-plant-shut-down-again,0,...

Reporting from mlive.com Grand Rapids [Michigan] Press: http://topics.mlive.com/tag/Palisades/index.html

Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_Nuclear_Generating_Station

12/10/2011 Radioactive water leaked at second Japan plant

Source: AFP via The Raw Story
Date: 12/10/2011

Topics: japanese nuclear plant ♦ nuclear plant ♦ radioactive water

A Japanese nuclear plant leaked 1.8 tonnes of radioactive water from its cooling system, the government said, heightening safety worries as an atomic crisis continues at another plant.

The leak, discovered Friday, caused no environmental impact as it was contained within an idled reactor at the Genkai nuclear plant in Saga prefecture in the southern Kyushu region, officials said.

Workers are still scrambling to contain a separate ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, triggered by the March earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan.
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Editor's Note: Map of Genkai Nuclear Power Plant below.
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12/6/2011 Hartmann: Fukushima...Has the China Syndrome now officially begun?

Source: RT News
Date: 12/6/2011 upload date


Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. The crisis at Fukushima continues. Over the weekend - the crippled Japanese nuclear plant spewed even more highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean - roughly 45,000 liters in all. According to a French nuclear research institute - since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March - the plant has leaked more radioactive material into the ocean than has ever happened before in the history of the planet. And he claims that after more than 8 months since an earthquake and tsunami triggered this crisis - it's inevitable that nuclear fuel has leaked into the groundwater - meaning the "China Syndrome" is officially upon us. He also warned that if underground water gets overheated - it could trigger a hydrovolcanic explosion. So what does all this mean? Time to ditch nuclear power - the most expensive and dangerous form of energy on Earth.

12/6/2011 (Video) Fukushima 45 ton radioactive water leak poisons ocean

Source: RT News
Date: 12/6/2011 upload date


About 45 tons of radioactive water has reportedly leaked out of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, that was badly damaged in March's earthquake and tsunami. Some of the toxic water may have found its way into the ocean during the weekend. RT talks to David Wagner from Country Risk Solutions in Tokyo.

12/4/2011 Radioactive Water Leaks From Japan's Fukushima Plant

Source: New York Times via CNBC
Date: 12/4/2011 8:14 PM ET

At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water has leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station unit, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator said on Sunday.
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11/19/2011 NRC to Investigate Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station Radioactive Water Leak

On Wednesday (11/16/2011) after having completed scheduled maintenance Unit 2 of the two reactor Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station run by Progress Energy was found to have a radioactive water leak from the reactor core, after the reactor had been ramped up to 7% power. [1]  Brunswick discovered the problem the next morning and has since shut down the reactor. Unit 1 is still running at full power.  The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) will investigate and produce a report within 45 days. [1]

See also:

1. Nuclear plant water leak probed, John Murawski, Charlotte Observer
2. Nuclear Engineer shares concerns about Brunswick Nuclear Leak, Lucas Whitefield Hixson, Enformable

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9/17/2011 Palisades Nuclear Plant In Michigan Shutdown After Repeated Cooling Failure

Source: The Examiner
Date: 9/17/2011
by: Alexader Higgins

The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Michigan has been shutdown after critical parts of the cooling system needed to cool the reactor failed for at least the third time within the last 2 years.

A notification of a nuclear event has been issued for the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert, Michigan.
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Editor's Note: Map showing facility below

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8/12/2011 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2 Back Online

Source: WSYR Channel 9 (ABC affiliate)
Date: 8/12 10:16 pm

Scriba (WSYR-TV) -- The Nine Mile Nuclear Plant's unit two is back up and running. The plant needed to be shut down twice this week because of leaks, but Friday night all the repairs were complete.

Inspections have assured that there are no other issues and the unit is back up to about 24 percent power.

It will take a little more time to get the unit back up to 100 percent.

Representatives say the leaks were never a risk to the public, or to plant employees.

Editor's Note: See also "Nine Mile Point 2 back to making power, officials say" from Syracuse.com for additional details. For previous developments see "8/6/2011 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2 Shut Down Due to Water Leak".

8/1/2011 Highly radioactive water flows into another place

Source: NHK World
Date: Monday, August 01, 2011 21:00 +0900 (JST)


Highly radioactive water has been found in the basement of a building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant near the storage facility for contaminated water.

Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Monday that it discovered about 700 tons of contaminated water on Saturday in the basement of an on-site building.

The utility said the water contained 19,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium 134 per cubic centimeter, and 22,000 becquerels of cesium 137 --- both very high levels.

Until June, the building was connected by a hose with another building where highly radioactive water is now being stored. The buildings are located next to each other and are part of the plant's waste disposal facility.

The utility is investigating how the leak happened. But it says it that there is no danger of the contaminated water leaking out of the building.