RADIOACTIVE WASTE BAGS WASHED AWAY IN TYPHOON: RADIOACTIVITY LEVELS RISE AT DAI'ICHI NUKE PLANT

UPDATE OCT. 17, 2019: IT IS STILL UNKNOWN HOW MANY WASTE BAGS WASHED AWAY AND THE NEWS SOURCES THAT STATED/HINTED THAT ALMOST 2,700 HAD WASHED AWAY HAVE NOW BEEN CALLED INTO QUESTION.
EVEN IF THE MILLIONS OF BAGS SPREAD ALL ACROSS JAPAN DON'T WASH AWAY, SITTING IN DEEP WATER AS MOST WILL BE NOW WILL CAUSE RADIATION FROM THEM TO LEACH INTO THE FLOOD WATERS WHERE THEY SIT.  ENVIRONMENTALIST GROUPS HAVE BEEN PROTESTING THESE FLIMSY CONTAINERS SINCE 2011. 

When I wrote of my concern yesterday that TEPCO might take advantage of the recent typhoon in the Fukushima Prefecture to "dispose" of radioactive water tanks, I forgot about the millions of BAGS of radioactive waste. 

Today, guess what's missing? 

Thousands of bags filled with contaminated waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster site were reportedly swept away by heavy rains as Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan over the weekend.

According to Japan's public broadcaster NHK, officials from Tamura city in Fukushima Prefecture said on Sunday that the bags were swept away from a storage facility into a nearby stream the previous day.

Ten bags were retrieved after a search, but it has not been confirmed how many of the approximately 27-hundred bags kept at the facility remain unaccounted for.

[2,700 bags from one small facility.]

The bags, which weigh up to one ton, reportedly contain radioactive grass, trees and other material that had been collected at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which suffered a meltdown in 2011.

UPDATED LATER TODAY: 
"Experts warn the radioactive bags could have a devastating environmental impact across the entire Pacific region, reports Taiwan News.

According to Asahi Shimbun, a temporary storage facility containing 2,667 bags storing radioactive contaminants from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster were “unexpectedly inundated by floodwaters brought by Typhoon Hagibis.“

Torrential rain flooded the storage facility and released the bags into a waterway 100 meters from the site."

MEANWHILE, AT THE DAI'ICHI NUKE PLANT, RADIATION LEVELS SET OFF ALARMS: 

FROM AN ATTORNEY IN JAPAN, VIA TWITTER:

"Alarms were sounded in Fukushima Nuclear Power plants at 19:25 which means leak of radiation in a water processing structure.
It means that Tepco assess rain leaking made alarms malfunction and those buildongs [sic] and structures are not airtight. Severe situation continues..."

Fukushima nuclear plant reports irregular readings as damage emerges. 

11.45 am update [NOTE: ALL TIMES BST (eight hours behind Tokyo)]:

Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) reported irregular readings from sensors monitoring water in its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Tepco spokeswoman Emi Iwasa said the typhoon triggered 11 leak alerts at the plant.
Of those, eight were confirmed as being triggered by rainwater and the rest were still being investigated.

REUTERS NEWS AGENCY has been updating the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis and also mentioned the (assumed) radiation spikes at the Fukushima plant on October 12.

REUTERS ALSO WROTE: "More than 20 rivers in central and northeastern Japan burst their banks and dozens more overflowed although their banks,  NHK said, adding that flooding rivers could cause more damage."

NO MENTION OF FUKUSHIMA'S NUKE PLANT SINCE.  

WITH "VAST SECTIONS OF TOWNS UNDERWATER" AND REPORTS OF WATER FLOWING SO SWIFTLY AND SO HIGH THAT TWO-STORY HOMES WERE COVERED AND VEHICLES WASHED AWAY, WE CAN EXPECT TO SEE MORE REPORTS OF MISSING PLASTIC BAGS... IF THE ABE REGIME ALLOWS THEM TO BE PRINTED AND IF TEPCO DARES GIVE OUT HONEST UPDATES ABOUT THE DAI'ICHI PLANT.

UNKNOWN NUMBERS OF BAGS OF WASTE WERE REPORTED WASHED AWAY IN A PREVIOUS TYPHOON IN 2015, AND HOW MANY OTHER TIMES THAT WE WERE NOT MADE AWARE OF? 

SPIKES IN RADIATION LEVELS ALSO WERE REPORTED DURING/AFTER PREVIOUS TYPHOONS. 

"Despite Tuesday’s statements asserting that the drainage system would protect the nuclear plant station and the operator company was ready to face the typhoon, today’s announcement would imply that TEPCO’s efforts weren’t enough."

SO, IN 4 YEARS TEPCO STILL HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO SAFEGUARD THE PLANT?
WHY NOT? 

BOTH THE ABE ADMINISTRATION AND TEPCO KNOW THE HAZARDS AND THE REALITY OF THIS OCCURRING DURING EVERY TYPHOON, YET THERE SIT THE CURSED BAGS, YEAR AFTER YEAR, EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS, KNOWINGLY PLACED NEAR STREAMS AND RIVERS THAT ARE BOUND TO SWELL WITH EACH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR, BUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ALLOWS IT.

WHY? 

A COUPLE OF NEWS AGENCIES ALSO POINTED OUT THAT IT SEEMS APPROACHING TYPHOONS CAUSE EARTHQUAKES IN THAT REGION.
THERE WAS A 5.3 QUAKE OFFSHORE THERE AS HAGIBIS APPROACHED ON OCTOBER 12.

A STUDY COMPLETED IN 2011 SHOWED THIS CORRELATION BETWEEN TYPHOONS AND QUAKES. 

SO, JAPAN'S GOVERNMENT AND TEPCO KNOW THE RISKS POSED BY ALL OF THIS AND YET DEMAND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS BE REOPENED, BE KEPT RUNNING THERE?

JAPAN SITS ATOP THE MOST ACTIVE FAULT LINES ON EARTH, MAJOR EARTHQUAKES GENERATE TSUNAMIS, VERY STRONG TYPHOONS ARE COMMON AND CAN GENERATE EARTHQUAKES, FLOODS CAN SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING AND YET THERE, IN JAPAN, WE FIND 54 NUKE SITES?

THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS PURE LUNACY! 










//WW