Nothing has been fixed at Fukushima.
After typhoon Phanfone dumped a bunch of water on Fukushima earlier this month, radioactive tritium levels jumped tenfold.
After typhoon Vongfong dumped a bunch more water on the plant, radioactive cesium and strontium levels soared.
Radiation levels in the water are at all-time highs.
Officials said there’s nothing they can do to stop it, and they have no idea how much radiation is running into the ocean.
The Japanese have dumped their plan to build an “ice wall” around the plant to contain the radiation. Indeed, they don’t have much of a plan to stabilize let alone contain the reactors.
The reactors didn’t just suffer a melt down, or even a China syndrome type melt-through, but a series of melt outs.
Scientists have no idea where the cores of the nuclear reactors are. Well actually, maybe they have found them … scattered all over the place.
And Fukushima radiation is approaching the West Coast of North America …
As the Statesman Journal reports:
Radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster is approaching the West Coast, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is reporting.
A sample taken Aug. 2 about 1,200 kilometers west of Vancouver, B.C. tested positive for Cesium 134, the Fukushima “fingerprint” of Fukushima.
It also showed higher-than-background levels of Cesium 137, another Fukushima isotope that already is present in the world’s oceans from nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s.
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“There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now,” Buesseler said. “It’s not on the beaches, but it’s offshore.”
Massive amounts of contaminated water were released from Fukushima following a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Radioactive water has continued to leak and be released from the complex.
No state or federal agency is testing Pacific waters for radiation from the crippled Japanese nuclear plant.
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