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Fukushima radioactive water likely breached barrier: panel head
2013-08-05 10:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday. This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters. Countermeasures planned by Tokyo...
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Japan: Radioactive Fukushima groundwater rises above barrier: media
2013-08-03 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Radioactive groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier being built to contain it, highlighting the risk of an increasing amount of contaminated water reaching the sea, Japanese media reported on Saturday. The Asahi newspaper, citing data from a Friday meeting of a task force working on the Fukushima clean-up at Japan's nuclear regulator, estimated that the contaminated water could swell to the ground surface within three weeks. The latest revelation...
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Japan: Doubts cast over TEPCO's plan to block radioactive water at Fukushima plant
2013-08-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asahi Shimbun: After nearly 30 months of failure, Tokyo Electric Power Co. is still providing little reason for confidence in its ability to deal with the radioactive water leaking at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The utility continues to face criticism for its delay in releasing vital information about conditions at the crippled plant. Fishermen and residents have lost patience over the many setbacks in TEPCOs preparations to decommission the reactors. And now, the Nuclear Regulation Authority is raising...
Japan plant likely leaking radioactive water into sea
2013-07-22 17:21:31| Energy - Topix.net
A Japanese utility said Monday its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is likely leaking contaminated water into sea, acknowledging for the first time a problem long suspected by experts.
Treatment Plants Accused of Illegally Disposing Radioactive Fracking Wastewater
2013-07-18 20:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny river with radioactive waste and other pollutants, according Clean Water Action, which announced today that it is suing the plant. Waste Treatment Corporation has been illegally discharging oil and gas wastewater since at least 2003, and continues to discharge such wastewater without authorization under the Clean Water Act and the Clean Streams Law, the notice...
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