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Fukishima Springs Water Leak

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thought-it-was-hope-that-springs-eternal dept.

sl4shd0rk writes "The Japanese Fukishima crisis took a turn for the worse this week as it was found a barrier built to contain contaminated water has been breached; a leak defined by 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium. This is yet another problem on top of a spate of errors plaguing the 2011 nuclear disaster site. Nuclear regulatory official Shinji Kinjo has cited Tokyo Electric Power Company as having a 'weak sense of crisis' as well as hinted at previous bunglings by TEPCO as the reason one cannot 'just leave it up to Tepco alone.' If Nuclear energy is ever to move forward, these types of disasters need to be eliminated."

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  1. "Fukushima Springs Water" by korbulon · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'd buy that for a doller!"

  2. Re:WTF is a 'becquerels?' by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Using terms that the layman can hardly spell, let alone understand, isn't helping to raise awareness. Kinda the opposite.

    Actually, the Becquerel is probably the easiest measure of radiation to understand: It's simply one decay per second.

    No arbitrary scale factors based on grams of some rare element that most people have never even seen, and no complicated biological models. Just decays per second.