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Meanwhile, radioactive material is spreading throughout the region in another way: Radioactive sludge and dirt is being systematically shipped to numerous municipalities for them to put in to their own local dumps, and political pressure is being applied to make sure mayors or other community leaders keep quite about his and allow it to happen. In another case, in Kashiwa, a drainage ditch has very highly concentrated radiation. In at least one case, a rainwater pipe seemed to be the source of high radiation.

It would seem that some sort of winnowing effect is concentrating radioactive material here and there. TEPCO claims that if there was another earthquake knocking out their current 'cooling' facilities at Fukushima, they could return to a state of the plant continuing to emit radiation out of control and boiling off radioactive steam and dumping radioactive water into the sea within just a few hours, so no need to worry about that eventuality.Įven though one of the 'hot spots' found in Tokyo turned out to be, rather disturbingly, a small nuclear waste dump someone had in their home, many other hot spots at many localities ofairutside of the evacuation area have been found. Most of the facilities are too radioactive to enter or to spend very much time in. So this is going to keep going for a while, at least a few more months. And what goes in must come out, as steam into the atmosphere and effluence into the sea.

Additional pumps are being brought in to inject more water. The reactors are still not uniformly shut down to less than boiling. Mid month, the plant was measured to be releasing about 100 million becquerels per hour. The release of radiation from the plant into the sea continues, and plankton are shown to be contaminated to a level that raises some concern. The release of radiation from the plant into the air continues, although a covering over Reactor 1 is almost completed. This may be because contaminated water has become more concentrated due to evaporation. The radiation at the Fukushima plants has gone up, rather than down, since June.

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