Ocean Temps WAY above normal around Fukishima April 6th

http://investmentwatchblog.com/ocean-temps-way-above-normal-around-fukishima/

Ocean Temps WAY above normal around Fukishima
April 6th, 2013

This NOAA map shows massive temperature anomaly off the coast of Japan. Coincidence or full on long-term effects of core breach.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/sst/weekly-sst.php

Animated loop of March, 2013 temperatures. Spot the odd man out.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/sst/ani-weekly.html

Fukushima tank springs major leak
120 tons of radioactive water escape from underground facility
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APR 7, 2013
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Around 120 tons of contaminated water with an estimated 710 billion becquerels of radioactivity has probably leaked into the ground under the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. revealed Saturday.

“It is the largest amount of radioactive substances that has been leaked” since the crippled facility’s cold shutdown was declared in December 2011, Tepco official Masayuki Ono said.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/07/national/fukushima-tank-springs-major-leak/#.UWCz6ZMTU8k

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Fukushima%3A_At_Least_3_Underground_Chambers_Leaking_Radioactive_Water/25222/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Fukushima: At Least 3 Underground Chambers Leaking Radioactive Water
April 9, 2013

Source: NY Times

At least three of seven underground chambers at the site are now seeping radioactive water, leaving the Tokyo Electric Power Company with few options on where to store the huge amounts of contaminated runoff from the makeshift cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Those systems were put in place after a large earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant’s regular cooling systems two years ago, causing fuel at three of its reactors to melt and prompting 160,000 people to evacuate their homes. Since then, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, has been flooding the damaged reactor cores to cool and stabilize the fuel.

But Tepco has struggled to find space to store the runoff water. It initially released what it said was low-level contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean, igniting furious criticism among neighbors and environmental activists. Traces of radioactive cesium were later found in bluefin tuna caught off the California coast.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has stressed that he will not permit Tepco — which has effectively been nationalized following the disaster — to again release contaminated water into the ocean. But Tepco says it already stores more than a quarter-million tons of radioactive water in hundreds of tanks at the site, or in underground pools, and that the amount of runoff could double within three years.

The company has said it is building more storage space, and also filters much of the runoff. But with its underground pools vulnerable to leaks, Tepco is being forced to scramble for alternatives.

Workers at the plant had been emptying the No. 2 underground pool after Tepco found that about 120 tons of toxic water, or almost 32,000 gallons, had breached its inner plastic linings and seeped into the soil. Tepco said the leak appeared to be the biggest since the early months after the March 2011 disaster.

Thanks for the updates Dave, I still contend this IS the beginning of 1/3 of the waters being poisoned. Truely (hopefully) a once in a lifetime event...hopefully the last, though it may not help all those children in Japan already being severely hurt if not killed soon.