{"id":131,"date":"2013-08-23T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2013-08-23T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:39:11","slug":"fukushima-leak-much-worse-than-we-were-led-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/23\/fukushima-leak-much-worse-than-we-were-led-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima Leak “Much Worse Than We Were Led to Believe”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’<\/h1>\n

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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travels to the source of the water being contaminated by Fukushima<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated.<\/p>\n

Mycle Schneider is an independent consultant who has previously advised the French and German governments.<\/p>\n

He says water is leaking out all over the site and there are no accurate figures for radiation levels.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the chairman of Japan’s nuclear authority said that he feared there would be further leaks.<\/p>\n

The ongoing problems at the Fukushima plant increased in recent days when the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) admitted that around 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank on the site.<\/p>\n

Moment of crisisThe Japanese nuclear energy watchdog raised the incident level from one to three on the international scale that measures the severity of atomic accidents.<\/p>\n

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It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This was an acknowledgement that the power station was in its greatest crisis since the reactors melted down after the tsunami in 2011.<\/p>\n

But some nuclear experts are concerned that the problem is a good deal worse than either Tepco or the Japanese government are willing to admit.<\/p>\n

They are worried about the enormous quantities of water, used to cool the reactor cores, which are now being stored on site.<\/p>\n

Some 1,000 tanks have been built to hold the water. But these are believed to be at around 85% of their capacity and every day an extra 400 tonnes of water are being added.<\/p>\n

“The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic,” said Mycle Schneider, who has consulted widely for a variety of organisations and countries on nuclear issues.<\/p>\n

“What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else – not just from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

www_bbc_co_uk_news_science_environment_23779561_utm_campaign     SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’ By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travels to the source of the water being contaminated by Fukushima A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}