Latest Helicopter Footage Of Fukushima, Zoom-In On Ruined Reactors: Pool Of Radioactive Water Found OUTSIDE Fukushima Plant

Video - Mar. 28, 2011

Workers trying to prevent a total meltdown at a Japanese nuclear power plant suffered another setback Monday when they found a pool of highly radioactive water leaking from the crippled facility.

"The trench is located outside the building and the water contains radioactive materials," Hiro Hasegawa, a spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Co., told The Daily Telegraph of London.  "There is normally no water found in this area."

The sea - and it's vulnerable eco-system - is just 200 feet from the the Fukushima Daiichi plant.  "We do not believe (the radioctive water) is leaking into the ocean," Hasegawa said. "We are now working out where the cause of the leak is and finding ways to remove the water as soon as possible."

The discovery of the potentially deadly pool came just a day after officials evacuated the area around reactor No. 2 when water puddles 100,000 times more radioactive than normal were found.

"The radiation seems to have come from the fuel rods that were partially melted down and came into contact with the water used to cool the reactor," government spokesman Yukio Edano said.

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Plutonium Detected In Soil At Fukushima Nuclear Plant

TOKYO (Kyodo)--Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday.

The operator of the nuclear complex said that the plutonium is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was damaged by the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110328D28NY579.htm

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[DailyBail]

Battle to control Fukushima plant seen far from over

* Japan crisis helps tip Germany poll against Merkel

* More than 27,000 dead or missing from quake and tsunami

* Magnitude 6.5 quake in north Japan triggers small tsunami

* Low-level radiation found in Massachusetts rainwater (Adds Massachusetts rainwater contaminated)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/27/japan-idUSL3E7ER06020110327

[DailyBail]

Plutonium Detected In Soil At Fukushima Nuclear Plant

TOKYO (Kyodo)--Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday.

The operator of the nuclear complex said that the plutonium is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was damaged by the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110328D28NY579.htm

[DailyBail]

Tension grows in the Tokyo metropolis. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has now admitted that a partial meltdown has taken place at one of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, and this is a cause of the relatively high levels of radiation escaping from the plant. Critics have been pouncing on the sluggish communications from the government.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171996.html

[NadePaulKuciGravMcKi]

governments and media pretend to be clueless;
plutonium dust mixed into air, ground, and water

[john]

Japan's HTV-2 cargo spaceship undocks from ISS

http://en.rian.ru/world/20110328/163253228.html

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The HTV-2 Konotori was the second Japanese spacecraft to dock with the space station. Japan expects to send another seven cargo ships to the station by 2015.

Note: there were 7 more launches scheduled.

Here is a video of the launch when Japan was a very different place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAvs4DctMZ4

[DailyBail]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/28/3-types-of-plutonium-detected-at-japans-fukushima-daiichi-plant/

3 types of plutonium detected at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant

[john]

@DB, I find it amazing that congress acted so fast with the bailouts, but instead of helping the Japanese they start WW-3.

Welcome to the new stone age.

[john]

Here are the three type of Plutonium detected in soil.

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/tatsujiro-suzuki/daily-update-japan

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Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported that plutonium (plutonium 238, plutonium 239, and plutonium 240) was found in soil samples taken from five spots within the site. The radioactivity level is the same level as that of fallout from nuclear tests; however, it is believed that two out of the five samples, which detected plutonium 238, are believed to come from this accident.

[DailyBail]

@DB, I find it amazing that congress acted so fast with the bailouts, but instead of helping the Japanese they start WW-3.

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The Japanese lobby is apparently weak on K street...