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23:44 30 January 2014

Fukushima No. 2 reactor suppression pool may have 3-cm hole

TOKYO, Jan. 30, Kyodo


The suppression pool connected to the No. 2 reactor at the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have a 3-centimeter hole
through which highly radioactive water is leaking out, the plant operator said Thursday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said data gathered by a robot this month near the doughnut-shaped suppression pool at the bottom of the No. 2 reactor's primary containment vessel indicated that the structure is damaged somewhere.

Water is injected into the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors that experienced core meltdowns in the 2011 nuclear disaster. But the coolant has been leaking from the reactors and TEPCO has not yet been able to nail down the source of the leakage.




Potential risk of internal exposure

Date: February 3, 2014 10:22:25 AM EST


We sent dust samples from the closet of our Tokyo home to the lab and were told it contained over 6,000Bq/kg worth of cesium 137, while as for the moss from our carpark, we've got over 13,000Bq/kg. Legally these are categorized as nuclear waste and should be treated accordingly. So my wife rang the ward office about it but was told not to worry as you're not going to eat a whole kilogram of house dust or moss.

We have a three-year-old and although at this stage it's not likely that he's going to eat either the dust or the moss, we're not sure what else is lurking around in the surrounding environment. We also know that from the sand in the nearby playground they found approx. 800 Bq/kg.

Are we just being paranoid at the unlikely risk of our child falling over and accidentally inhaling some random particles? Is this something we can forget and not bother about?

Many thanks always for the informative threads and links.

Cheers,
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