Fukushima radiation exposure spreading continuously

TEPCO: Fukushima Radiation Isn't Our Problem
In the amoral milieu of the corporate bottom line, you can't blame Tokyo Electric Power Co. for trying.

Tepco owns the 6-reactor Fukushima complex that was wrecked by Japan's March 11 earthquake and smashed by the resulting tsunami. It faces more than $350 billion in compensation and clean-up costs, as well as likely prosecution for withholding crucial information that may have prevented some radiation exposures and for operating the giant station after being warned about the inadequacy of its protections against disasters.

Some 80% of the radiation from Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant ended up in the sea, where it's now spread worldwide, a report finds. A researcher tells AFP. Radiation—some of which has a 30-year half-life—spread across the Pacific and hit the western shores of the US in mid-March. A week later, the radioactive materials had completed a trip around the globe.

The other 20%of the radiation ended up on land around the power plant, prompting a new ban on local rice, AFP notes. Radioactive cesium in the rice has been found to far exceed government safety standards. More than 150 farms producing some 200 tons of rice have been slapped with the ban, and it "won't be lifted until safety of the rice produced in the area can be confirmed," says an official.

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Association was recently made available to Fairewinds. Kaltofen states that hot particles are contaminating portions of northern Japan. He also states that auto air filters from Fukushima, that he tested in his Massachusetts laboratory, are so radioactive that they have to be disposed of in a buried radioactive waste disposal site in the US. Additionally, he expresses concerns for the mechanics who work on cars in Fukushima Prefecture.

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[bobodd5]

SHUT UP

[lolmao500]

The wall of the south side is falling apart at reactor 4. Reactor 4 is in the most serious situation. It is assumed that if another aftershock hits it to drop the spent fuel pool hung in the building ,the entire area in eastern Japan would be too contaminated to be habitat.

[zeropointpower]

That was terrifying.

[loxety]

Thank you for posting this video.

[CannibalCarp]

There were a lot of Japanese heros trying to cool down those reactors by going inside those buildings. I do not think I have those kind of stones to do that. It is the worlds problem not just to the Japanese. We as human beings dicovered this awesome but sometimes deadly power source and use it irresponsibly with minimal knowledge of this stuff. We all are to blame.