News On the 9 October 2013 and disaster related.
TOKYO — Six workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were exposed to a leak of highly radioactive water today (Oct 9), the latest in a string of mishaps the country’s nuclear watchdog has attributed to carelessness, saying they could have been avoided.
Tokyo Electric Power, also known as TEPCO, has been battling to contain radioactive water at the plant, which suffered triple meltdowns and hydrogen explosions following a devastating earthquake in March 2011.
Mr Tanaka urged TEPCO to improve its handling of contaminated water, but stopped short of saying if it faced any penalties.
The accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 220km north of Tokyo, are adding to a crisis no one seems to know how to contain, and stirring doubt over TEPCO’s abilities to carry out a complex cleanup widely expected to take decades.
Just last week, the regulator ordered TEPCO to draft in additional workers and report within a week on its measures to tackle the hazardous clean-up.
TEPCO said seven tonnes (7000 kg) of water were spilled in today’s incident at the treatment facility but were contained within the site, adding that the leaked water had an all-beta radiation level of 34 million becquerels per litre. Beta radiation is not as harmful to humans as other types, although it can still cause DNA damage.
Mr Tanaka said the leaked water had already been treated to remove cesium, which emits strong gamma radiation harmful to humans.
On Monday, TEPCO said a plant worker accidentally halted power to pumps used to cool the damaged reactors. A backup system kicked in immediately, but the event was another reminder of the precarious situation at the plant.
Last week, TEPCO said 430 litres of contaminated water had spilled out of a storage tank at Fukushima and probably flowed to the ocean.
Japan’s nuclear regulator said today that incident was equivalent to “Level 0” on the International Nuclear and Radiological Events Scale (INES), but gave no official rating.
In August, a leak of 300 tonnes (300,000kg) of highly radioactive water from a hastily built site tank was given a “Level 3” or “serious incident” rating on the INES scale.
Also in August, TEPCO said two workers were contaminated with radioactive particles, the second such incident in a week involving staff outside the site’s main operations centre.
TEPCO is trying to restart its only remaining viable plant — Kashiwazaki Kariwa, the world’s largest nuclear power station, to cut high fuel costs and restore its finances. REUTERS
From my point of view above mention in news, as i know that Japan had gone through alot of hard times where they go through Earthquakes on the 2011. And now this matter have been spread in news around the world. As i know they are currently very wounded and in trauma as what they had experience in that Earthquakes. Just like how Haiti , Indonesia , Phillipines , China related to something like this issue. As we know that not all of them survive on that very cruel moment. Some manage to escape and go to a certain location where they are very much safe over there. This is also due to “Global Warming” issue again. Where the earth being corrupted with lots of things. Even include those who lived on the mountain side where the “Volcano” Erupted was in Indonesia.
As i can feel the tension as where they had to go through all disaster they facing. News like this people will never want to ignore. As this is where people tragic lives begun in mysery and emotional. As those foreigners tends to find a way to support their country people just by doing larbor work in overseas or even include in Singapore they too willing to do anything just to earn some cash for a living. As this is the only way for them to survive for their expanses for food , clothes , transport , travel..ETC; Till this very day, still thousand or million of them still happily moving on in their working lives. Whether the Asian or the Foreigner side. We are very much willing to help them as much as we can. This is called the Friendly Zone around the World! World Peace! Peace No War! That would all for today! Thank you for reading!
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