The powerful
Typhoon Man-Yi which brought torrential rains and gusty winds of over 160
kilometers per hour and caused so far three deaths, five missing people, over
500.000 residents evacuated and over 140 injured. This flooding in Japan also
targeted the Fukushima water tanks forcing authorities to release over 1000
tons of toxic water into the sea.
Tokyo Electric
Power (TEPCO) that operates the leaking nuclear plant said it released over
1130 tons of water contaminated with low levels of Strontium into the sea after
the typhoon worsened the situation.
According to
the Japan Meteorological Agency, the typhoon made landfall in Toyohashi, Aichi
prefecture early morning today with the stormy winds of 100 miles per hour.
The rains
brought by typhoon Man-Yi impacted upon enclosure walls that surrounded toxic
water leaking tanks.
Unofficially,
it is known that Fukushima plant is still leaking radiation and struggling to
handle contaminated water used to cool its reactors have heightened the leak
fears these past few days.
Workers were
pumping out the water from areas near tanks storing radioactive water, from
which leaks are believed to have seeped into groundwater.
Around 300
tons of mildly contaminated groundwater is entering the ocean every day having
passed under the reactors, according to TEPCO.
It is said
that there was a leak a few months ago where there was another massive release
to the sea of tons of water with high rates of radiation which it is expected
to reach U.S. shores in the next months. Analysis made to tuna-fish a few
days ago were so radioactive that people should not eat any fish coming from
the Pacific.
Why is it that
nobody gives all the information detailed on this subject? Because it’s been
impossible to control the leakage of radiation into the sea; Japanese authorities
have failed in this mission and this can set an ending point to tourism,
fisheries and to the wildlife of the Pacific.
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