Kyodo, Feb. 7, 2014: “TEPCO to review “massive” radiation data due to improper measurement – [TEPCO] said Friday that it will review a “massive” amount of radiation data it has collected at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant because readings may be lower than actual figures due to improper measurement. “We are very sorry, but we found cases in which beta radiation readings turned out to be wrong when the radioactivity concentration of a sample was high,” TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono told a press conference.
• Kyodo/Jiji, Feb. 7, 2014: “TEPCO said it will re-analyze past water samples because some of the figures can’t be trusted.”
• NHK, Feb. 7, 2014: “TEPCO to review erroneous radiation data: The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has decided to review radiation data after finding the initial readings may be much lower than actual figures. TEPCO says it has detected a record high 5 million becquerels per liter of radioactive strontium in groundwater collected last July from one of wells close to the ocean. That’s more than 160,000 times the state standard for radioactive wastewater normally released into the sea.”
• Yomiuri Shinbun translated by EXSKF, Feb. 7, 2014: “5 million Bq/Liter of radioactive strontium was detected from the groundwater sample taken on June 5 about 1,000 times that of the highest density in the groundwater that had been measured so far (5,100 Bq/L). TEPCO didn’t disclose the result of measurement of strontium On February 6, TEPCO explained that they had “underestimated all of the results of high-density all-beta, which in fact exceeded the upper limit of measurement.” The company recently switched to a different method of analysis that uses diluted samples.”
• Jiji Press, Feb. 7, 2014: “TEPCO May Have Underestimated Radioactive Water Spill Impact Nuclear Regulation Authority may have to revise its provisional assessment of the spill [from a tank in summer last year], now put at Level 3 on the International Nuclear Event Scale of zero to 7, if the actual amount is far larger than has been announced, an official of the NRA Secretariat said. TEPCO’s measurement method is considered unreliable, the official added.”
“Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher of marine chemistry at the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute, estimated that 30 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and another 30 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium continue to leak into the outer ocean every day. Available monitoring data have shown no decline in their levels.”
A comment: They’ve intentionally lied all along about this, folks, in every way. Do you realize what this really is? There are 3 total melted-through cores that have burrowed into the earth and have impacted ground water from the Pacific Ocean, each “burning” at 5,700 degrees F, and will do so for thousands of years, spewing radioactivity into the ocean and atmosphere. One study claims that the entire Pacific Ocean, every cubic foot, will have 120 times the normal background radiation. Life as we know it cannot survive that degree of radiation. Of course the winds and ocean currents will carry this poison to the entire planet. Additionally, a total of over 11,000 highly radioactive spent fuel rods are on the site, subject to earthquakes which will add them to the molten cores below ground. Nobody will say it, but I, perhaps foolishly, will: this is an extinction level event for mankind, Doomsday in slow motion. There is no known technology to deal with this situation- the only solution at the time this began was to nuke the site, wipe it out completely. We, humanity, would have taken a tremendous hit but survived. Of course that didn’t happen, and it’s too late now. This isn’t melodrama, it’s my own conclusion based on all I’ve learned, and I wish desperately to be proven wrong. Please, don’t believe me, research it for yourself and form your own conclusions. God forgive us for what we’ve done, to ourselves, and to this beautiful world… – CP